Saturday, May 8, 2010

Want to rave about Amazon Kindle? Go somewhere else.

I'm sure a lot of you have had great success with Amazon kindle and I went into it with high hopes. Had a friend get Never Ceese upload ready and submitted it. I was happy to see I was given control over the categories it would show up in but have to admit I doubted it would matter as to date, Amazon seems to posts books wherever they feel like it.

Well I'm happy to report Amazon acted true to form. After about two days on Kindle my book got it's first one-star rating (not that I never expected one, just that this one came because of genre ignorance on Amazon's part.) Why give author's the choice of categories if you aren't going to stick to them? ARRRRGGHHH!

Also I thought with Kindle I'd at least be safe from that horrid return policy that brick and mortar stores share with the distributors that provide them with best-selling authors books.

NOPE!

Of the seven kindle books I sold straight away, one was returned. *gasp*

You're kidding right? I am probably the ONLY author who has had a kindle book returned. I've no idea what it cost me. I was too sick to look. Thanks a lot Amazon.

Yes. I pulled my Kindle version. I don't need that kind of help. By the way, while Amazon finally pulled my Kindle book, they didn't pull the one-star review that came because of their ignorance. That reader would've never seen my book had it not been for them. Genre's are there for a reason Amazon. Use them!

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