Search inside the Amazon way
A brief update to an earlier post: my book Liquidambar (the Pierrot from Edward Hopper’s Soir Bleu, shown here, is one of the novel’s nastier antagonists), is at last searchable via the Amazon UK website, thanks to its ‘Search Inside’ service. This provides a view of the book’s pages (including both front and back cover) in a similar way to Google’s Book Search, but with the added advantage for authors and publishers that it provides — alongside reviews — an instant option to purchase the book. Meanwhile, Liquidambar’s Amazon UK sales rank has dropped from 232,593 to 251,744; hardly Harry Potter territory, but considerably better than its pre-Google Book Search ranking of 912,577 on 16 January. And the publisher PABD says that, “after much prodding”, it can now provide me with a date by which the book should also be available on Amazon.com: a little over three weeks from now. Shipping will then be displayed as “within 24 hours”, rather than the current four to six weeks. However, PABD claims still to be looking at the numbers of books sold through the trade, saying it would get back to me by Thursday of last week. I’m still waiting. Watch this space.
posted by Chris Bell at 9:45 PM
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