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Carole wrote: "Thank you , guys!! They removed it!!!! I'm delighted. She wasn't even a verified review!!"great!
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Nice one. My good news is Nate and Day has been accepted for a book of the month listing on the erotic for all website that only cost me £12.
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Alex wrote: "My something good, I just got accepted for an ENT promotion for Where There's A Will on 1st October, just before A Perfect Pose gets released, and it only cost me $45. Fingers crossed it does as g..."
This is wonderful! Congratulations!!!!!
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Hi everyone !I am getting frustrated with the servicing of Amazon. They are manipulating my book sales. Three times they reported more in graph and later deleted. I withdrawn from KDP select and uploaded on Smashwords and D2D but no sales. Again enrolled in KDP select because there Iam getting sales regularly. No satisfactory response from KDP care.
What about your experiences with them? Should I try pronoun or any other platform?
Prakash, are you sure it isn't people returning the books? That can happen. Maybe that's why it was reported then disappeared.
Returning Kindle books? Is that possible, Aislinn?
Amy! Is there any option to return a kindle book and get the money back?If so, they would let me know. But, they are saying that there was no sales, while I have seen that day the book sales was shown in their graph on sales page. Later it was removed. I lost 4 books.
Maybe I'm thinking of audible instead. I know I sent a couple of non paperback books back on something.I don't know Prakash. Amazon is doing strange things at the moment. I have just received a royalty notification from them saying to expect payment and when I checked it said Japan. My reports have never mentioned me being paid anything from Japan. Maybe they are having some problems.
Amy ! They are minting money and fooling Indie authors. It's my personal experience. In July, when I raised issue of royalty payment, there was a difference of 0.29GBP and you know what they replied? They told me that INR 0.25 added to my payment, while 1GBP is equal to 82INR.
Prakash wrote: "Amy! Is there any option to return a kindle book and get the money back?If so, they would let me know. But, they are saying that there was no sales, while I have seen that day the book sales was ..."
Yes, it's possible.
I've returned books myself.
Yes, I've returned books before.Prakash, I hate to ask, but are you sure that you are looking at the right spot in the graph? It moves every day, so your sales may have just fallen off the 30 day period. Some people get confused and don't realise that the graph isn't 'monthly'. If so, click the drop down and change the dates and see if your sales show up again.
Otherwise, maybe start taking screenshots so we can see what you mean.
Something good happened:I finally got the edits back from my new editor and he is great! Yey! I will finally get to finish this book. :) Can't wait to get off from work to dig into my ms!
AND I joined Twitter four weeks ago and already have 121 followers! That's fun and addictive!
(@vale_elina if you want to connect. )
Small things but happy things!
Aislinn ! No, I am not confused about that graph. I know it varies.I have doubt that if this was the case of returning books, they would definitely clarify it to me.
I don't think that Kindle books are returnable. Am I wrong?
They clearly shown 10 Kindle books sales on 6th September and on 10th September it was just 6?
No satisfactory reply means cheating because I check everyday.
I think it's better to have screenshot after every sales noticed.
Well done Elina.Yes Kindle books are returnable, I've just looked it up. Might be a time limit of 7 days to return it. But they are returnable.
Prakesh, if you go to your Reports page on KDP and then to Month-to-Date, it shows Units Sold, Units Refunded and Net Units Sold. That is the easiest way to see if any of your books' sales have been refunded.Some readers constantly ask for refunds but I guess Amazon susses them out eventually. I think nearly all KDP members suffer from refunds - often people who have read the book and then ask for a refund. Not fair, not nice, naughty and basically stealing. Over 5 years, I have probably had 15 refunds. Not enough to worry about.
I notice sometimes that the sales in $ or £ don't seem to coincide with what is possible in terms of the % I might expect. But it is just a few pence/cents difference and there is possibly something I am unaware of. It isn't, in my opinion, worth wasting time investigating. Time is too precious to seek out the lost pennies which are probably deducted quite legally anyway.
Amy ! It means if I buy a kindle book, I may return it within 7 days and claim another book with the same money?If my case was like that, they would clarify it in their reply but they didn't say anything in this regard.
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I have also heard that authors leave Kindle, and then after three months come back and resign for a limited time. Going on and off, spurs sales. I find it too much to keep track of, so I've left all our books on Kindle- even though I've moved mass distribution to Ingram.
Try doing a giveaway on Kindle to motivate interest in the book, Prakash. Also, perhaps you can get some blog coverage with blogs that discuss your subject matter?
I did the same. I am using Ingram for everything, except I am getting ready to load to Smashwords. Ingram does not distribute to Overdrive, which I found absolutely amazing, but Smashwords does. I can opt out of the rest of their distribution channels and just use them to get to Overdrive. Kindle is a good program, but I noticed a change when I pulled back the exclusive rights. It wouldn't surprise me to learn there is some hanky-panky going on. LOL
I stopped being exclusive to Kindle months ago. I wanted iBooks because erotica is supposed to be difficult to get onto iBooks. (I was accepted by iBooks first time for both books- yay to me!) So I also went via Smashwords and opted out of Amazon distribution via Smashwords.
I'm on Nook for both books too. (Polishes halo.) Just checked, still there.The issue is some erotic authors try to write what I'll call the icky stuff. Fine, have it off with a vampire, but not a dead person. Have it off with a werewolf, but leave live animals alone. Do not write anything to do with underage people or people pretending to be underage. You must not attempt to pass rape off as an erotica scene. And you also have to make sure everyone in the scene consents.
I had to rewrite a scene in Modified to make it blatantly obvious that the main character wanted to be in the room and give him plenty of ways to get out if he happened to change his mind because a publisher who hadn't read the entire book said that scene fell foul of their dubcon (dubious content) rule. I'm on thin ice as it is with dubcon because of the nature of the genetic modifications I put the characters through to turn them into randy buggers. But so far I appear to be getting away with it.
I've just had to sign a thing on Smashwords this week to guarantee that neither of my books contain anything that breaks those rules. Without that guarantee the books can be pulled with no notice.
(Not that I'm bothered I've not sold a single copy other than one or two via iBooks.)
Thank you Carole! Erica! Alex !It means if I buy a kindle book, I may return it and claim another book with the same money? Is not it cheating??
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Prakash wrote: "Thank you Carole! Erica! Alex !It means if I buy a kindle book, I may return it and claim another book with the same money? Is not it cheating??
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No, it's probably just consumer law. I read it was put in place in case of accidental purchases. But like a lot of things you buy online certainly in the UK you have a certain amount of time with which to change your mind about your purchase and obtain a refund.
You too. I hope you find out what's going on.
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(My books are on Overdrive- I would also like to know what it is lol)ETA mine are actually listed as needing to be re-shipped. There are a few that have always said that. They may not take erotica.
Thanks guys! Now I'm going to finish this book. I know I've been here on Goodreads a lot less, but I'm hooked on Twitter. It's highly addictive. ;D
Seriously, I have no idea how to handle all social media platforms and website. And I should write, edit and read. Oh, and handle the real job and remember to feed the kids... It's a lot!
Elina wrote: "Seriously, I have no idea how to handle all social media platforms and website. And I should write, edit and read. Oh, and handle the real job and remember to feed the kids... It's a lot! ."Yep. Given more time available I'd be further ahead than I am. Same as you, day job, kids, then all the writing stuff. We muddle through as best we can.
Amy wrote: "Elina wrote: "Seriously, I have no idea how to handle all social media platforms and website. And I should write, edit and read. Oh, and handle the real job and remember to feed the kids... It's a ..."That's all we can do! And I have to figure out the best platforms for marketing. Twitter is a place where all the YA readers are, right? :D
The trouble with Facebook is, I believe, the more you post, the more their algorithm flags you as spam. At least that's what I read earlier in the year. I feel Twitter gets lost in all the other tweets, but I do it anyway.
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Carole wrote: "What kind of change did you notice, Anita. AND, what is Overdrive?"Sorry, to be so late in responding. I am on Amtrak headed to Michigan. First time on a train, what a hoot. Considering my next book involves a train, the timing could not be better for some research.
To answer your question, I was selling some books, not a lot but just enough to keep my ranking out of the gutter. When I discontinued the exclusive right to the ebook, it was like the bottom just fell out. I still had a few sales, but my ranking didn't go back up to the previous levels.
There are two program for libraries. Readers can borrow ebooks. One is Hoopla and the other is Overdrive. Smashwords and Pronoun distribute to Overdrive, but Ingram does not. I am trying to get information on who distributes to Hoopla and so far all I have gotten is they get their books from publishers. Someone from their vendor side is supposed to contact me.
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