Yo Amazon, WTF?

 

I love Amazon. So many great things have happened in my writing career because of Amazon and having my books on Amazon. In fact as an indie writer and publisher, I depend upon Amazon.

Over the weekend, I noticed that my book, "Where's My F*cking Latte" had once again hit Amazon's top 100 bestsellers list in the category of Entertainment. But, to my chagrin I also noticed that the book was erroneously listed as "Currently Unavailable". I know it was just a temporary glitch. As you can see from the screenshot, the book at #90 "Mischief in Mudbug" was also listed as such… Oy.

I can assure you that "Where's My F*cking Latte" is available. 

Any bestseller list serves as an important method of discovery for authors to connect with new readers and I'd hate to think a small error like this caused anyone to hesitate from buying my book but as an indie, every purchase helps the cause. I'd like to think that anyone with two brain cells to rub together would at least realize that it would be impossible for a book that was "currently unavailable" to be on a bestseller list, right?

My guess is that it could have been something benign that had to do with getting the store ready for Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet, being announced tomorrow.