Block My Book, Make Me Sales

As an addendum to my previous post about brushes with infamy, I was checking through the various retail sites to see the progress on my recent book release, when I noticed a curious thing.
If you take a look at each book page, you’ll see that the list of retailers has been updated (thanks finally to sorting out my issues I’d had conforming to Kobo’s guidelines). There may be other retailers selling my titles as a result of aggregation, but I haven’t dug far enough into the systems to see where those listings are, yet.
It will be quickly apparent which title is the one due to be blocked on at least one retailer, with delays on others suggestive of similar issues. After a resubmit and defence of my position via response to the service ticket, I don’t hold much hope for having it appear on those sites, but since my other books do I should be okay with my future works still being able to appear.
That’s not the curious aspect. It is that “Tied in Knots” is rapidly becoming my best selling title. For a book that’s facing being banned from some sites, it seems that readers can’t move quick enough to get it off other sites.
Because not all sites notify me when sales take place, and I wasn’t tracking daily sales movements, I didn’t know that these sales had taken place until today.
For anyone who is curious, the only time that the decency issue came up was when the title was being reviewed for release on these sites. Not one of any of the readers (including the editor and proof reading pool) even mentioned it as an issue, so it’s been fun to watch the sales rack up while sites are reconsidering retailing it.
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Published on June 19, 2012 04:05
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