Announcing the New Follow Author Button

[Miss M]

I've always assumed on the trad pub side, publishers pay for product placement (co-op fees.) For the indies, i do think they have to achieve a certain level of success for amazon to notice.

Eileen, you probably should start a separate thread/subject on this if you want to get better visibility/feedback from authors who've been through the process. Or do a search on Kboards Writers Cafe - i've seen threads there where authors discuss the approach from amazon, for daily deals, the monthly sale, and the occasional Big Deal sales.

[Alexandra]

Moonlight Reader wrote: "Auntie J wrote: "Moonlight Reader wrote: "Eileen wrote: "May I humbly ask you all something? How does one get their book featured on the Kindle Daily Deals lists or such? I don't mean to insult ..."

Could be, for me too, cuz of those I've only heard of the Dresden files :D

[Christine PNW]

Auntie J wrote: "Moonlight Reader wrote: "Auntie J wrote: "Moonlight Reader wrote: "Eileen wrote: "May I humbly ask you all something? How does one get their book featured on the Kindle Daily Deals lists or such..."

Do you read romance? Because Susanna Kearsley is pretty awesome, actually.

My favorite is The Winter Sea.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Auntie J wrote: "Seems to me like a lot of times the books are pretty unknown, and sometimes they're old releases - some probably had buzz at the time, and some old popular kids books, etc."

Could have knocked me over with a feather when I saw Up the Down Staircase as their featured read - hadn't thought of it in years.

It strikes me that it's a mixture of backlist from major publishers, first novels in series, but it can be very inconsistent. I wonder what their criteria are?

[Eileen]

Thanks all. I know I've bought many a book from that list.

[Alexandra]

Moonlight Reader wrote: "Auntie J wrote: "Moonlight Reader wrote: "Auntie J wrote: "Moonlight Reader wrote: "Eileen wrote: "May I humbly ask you all something? How does one get their book featured on the Kindle Daily De..."

I don't, no :D

[Alexandra]

Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "Auntie J wrote: "Seems to me like a lot of times the books are pretty unknown, and sometimes they're old releases - some probably had buzz at the time, and some old popular kids books, etc."

Could..."

Ack! I'm sorry I missed that one, I've been wanting to read that book for ever.

[Lori]

Eileen wrote: "May I humbly ask you all something? How does one get their book featured on the Kindle Daily Deals lists or such? I don't mean to insult anyone if this is a simple thing--but I am a total neophyt..."

Indie author Lilo Abernathy got one a while back. She tells her story here:

http://lilojabernathy.blogspot.com/20...

[Michael]

Christa wrote: "Karl wrote: "Christa, I think I'm getting it, and thank you. You can now 'friend' readers and 'follow' authors, but you can't 'friend' authors, is that correct?"

You can still friend them, but rea..."

Hi Christa,

I have been on Goodreads for 18 months and I have experienced if you friend either an author or reader, you are a follower? Is this correct?

[Christa]

Michael wrote: "Hi Christa,

I have been on Goodreads for 18 months and I have experienced if you friend either an author or reader, you are a follower? Is this correct?
"

Initially, yes, but they have always been two separate functions. When you friend someone, you also are set to follow them, but you can unfollow if you choose without affecting the friending function.

The issue being discussed here was that, with the change, if you were friends with an author, you were also forced to follow them. You couldn't just be friends without also following.

That has now been reverted and the friend and follow functions have once again been separated.

[Michael]

Good to know. Thanks Christa.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

I don't see it on the author page (well, frankly, lots of things are no longer easy to see on the author pages) -- but, on an author's review after clicking "see review" at the very bottom of the review there was a "follow reviews" UGB.

I don't remember if that was there before the follow-author-button-changes this thread announced or not.

But, if it helps anyone apparently you can currently go to an author's review of something then click "follow reviews."

[Michael]

All this for semantics?

Personally, I'm not sure how to participate in this site any longer.

If you're interested in an author, or in a reader's book reviews then you really just need to subscribe to updates in what they've posted.

Groups are for book discussions, but which group (or groups) is the right place can be confusing. Is the book you've read and want to discuss Young Adult (not an official genre) or SciFi? You may need to join a bunch of different groups (all of which want to send emails to you), rather than simply searching for a title and joining in the discussion. I don't want to join 100 different groups, I just want to read about and discuss specific titles.And if I see someone who posts opinions I like to read, I'd like to subscribe to his or her stream, without declaring a specify relationship.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

Michael wrote: "...all of which want to send emails to you..."

Pssst...go to a group's home page and edit your group info/settings between group description and BOTM/discussions (if you forgot to change how you want notifications when joining a group and are getting unwanted email).

The notification settings for the entire group can be changed for individual group threads if you do find ones you later would want email or other notifications (in each thread under comment box the "Notify/email me when people reply" can be checked and edited from email, to notify, to none, etc.)