Tag: amazon.com
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Cheap books
A recent search on Amazon showed a variety of our books at reduced prices, some cheaper than I can print them. Most of these books are around or under $5 each: Click here for Echo City
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Reflections on a Battle between Bookshop.org and Amazon.com
I’m thinking about how the world keeps changing. Now I’m not putting a judgment on that reality, but as I approach my 50th birthday in May I have reached that age where the experiences I cherish the most are very different from what happens in my everyday life now. Small…
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A note on Amazon categories
If you’d like a chuckle at Amazon’s inefficiencies in AI, I learned earlier that M.Christian’s and Ralph Greco Jr.’s new book, Sex: Everything You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know hit #17 in the Amazon parenting reference category. When I entered the metadata for this title, I focused on relationships, dating and intimacy— there…
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A cautionary tale: My debacle with Ingram
First, let me say that I am mostly happy with the product, customer service and distribution of IngramSpark. But it’s now December 11 and I’ve been waiting since November 16 for ten copies of Sometimes I Get… For some reason, this hardcover seems to get lost in the system every…
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An Amazon.com story: The Good and Bad of Innovation
In her workshop to the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group last weekend, Laurel Olsen Wenson mentioned her favorite book, Farenheit 451, and added the caveat, “and I’m not a science fiction fan, but that book resonated with me.” We are living in the science fiction world that Ray Bradbury and…
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David’s Little Town in a Good Place
Julian Costa’s new book, a memoir by David Scott Campbell, David’s Little Town, debuted earlier this week. The unfinished memoir, which Costa discovered during his research for Campbell’s biography, chronicles life in industrial Galion, Ohio, in mid-century (1950s) America. The book launched quietly, as we had some trouble with the…
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Writing Dirty Words— memoir? craft book? humor?
Ralph Greco Jr. launched in July his latest title, Writing Dirty Words (buy it here or from your favorite source of books, remember all of our titles are available through Ingram). It finds itself the #1 hot new release in “erotica fiction writing reference” on Amazon. Ralph has some honest…
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Writing Dirty Word hits a #1
I’ll keep it brief, but Ralph Greco Jr.’s Writing Dirty Words has hit #1 in Amazon’s hot new releases in the erotica fiction writing reference niche. What I find hysterical is that the #3 title came out two weeks before Ralph’s book and it sounds like the same book but…
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You’ve heard it, but have you acted on it? Support authors via reviews, a how-to
If you’re a reader, and not just the kind of person who occasionally picks up a book but the person who always has a book nearby, you’ve heard this: reviews help authors. It’s why authors recruit advance readers, pay literary publications like Publishers Weekly, and why services like NetGalley* exist.…
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