Amazon Series pages

[Will]

So Amazon are opening new pages where they link all the books in a series together.

Mine hasn't been done yet, but I've seen the pages for better selling authors.

For once, Amazon has had a good idea!

[David]

That is good, Will. Let's hope they roll it to us all sooner rather than later.

[Will]

It will be nice.

I've seen a couple of pages, and they work well.

[Jim]

Got an example of one of these pages? I was just wondering how they did it without reading the books

[David]

Jim wrote: "Got an example of one of these pages? I was just wondering how they did it without reading the books"

You can mark your books as part of a series when you publish, by giving them a series title.

[Will]

If you look at mine or David's on Amazon Jim, you will see that they are marked as *series title* *Volume 1, or 2, or 3 or whatever*

That's the method Amazon are using to tie them together.

Here's an example from a friend of mine

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B...

[Tim]

I have a series page in the US, but not in the UK (no surprise there)

It looks like its basically just a search on your series title (i.e. I get the same result if I search for "Flick Carter" in the UK store as I do if I click on the series link in the US store.)

[David]

I get it if I type the series title "Fuel to the Fire", which is cunningly also the title of the first book in the series. It does also bring up a book about multi-fuel stoves too, though, which is not a part of my fantasy trilogy :~/

[David]

That does look a cool way of showing it, Will. Want!

[Jim]

Mine aren't really a series so it won't me at the moment

[David]

Hey! I have the series page on dotcom.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B...

[David]

Mary, you also have one, but your last two books aren't on it.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B...

[M.T.]

I have tinkered with the names so hopefully the series link will work for all four books now. We shall see.

Cheers

MTM

[M.T.]

Actually, I've asked Amazon. As far as I know I have them listed as K'Barthan Series, right through but for some reason, that's not picking up. What you have there is K'Barthan Trilogy... hmm...

[Will]

I don't think Amazon loves me...

*Sniff*

[D.D. Chant]

Me either, Will.

*Pout*

[David]

Will and DD, are you certain you've set them up correctly in your KDP bookshelf?

Part of a series, ticked; series title the same for each; volume number.

[Will]

Oh yes, David

They've just not got round to me yet

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Amazon loves no-one, Will...

[D.D. Chant]

David wrote: "Will and DD, are you certain you've set them up correctly in your KDP bookshelf?

Part of a series, ticked; series title the same for each; volume number."

Yep all done, I guess they have a long list to get through...

[David]

I'd have thought it was automated. Perhaps email them.