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Editors & Proofreaders [Public] / Proofreading & copy editing - now booking for April
« Last post by Alexa on March 28, 2025, 08:25:22 PM »I have three open slots in May!
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Bar & Grill [Public] / Re: The Garden Thread that two people wanted
« Last post by Jan Hurst-Nicholson on March 28, 2025, 01:50:43 PM »Stuff is blooming around here, but I've been sick, so I haven't been outside much.
Hopefully I'll get well before the flowers fade so I can enjoy the spring a little. The season arrived a week or two earlier than usual this year, but we also had some brutally cold and dry stretches during the winter, so I guess it averages out.
In the meantime, I'll just enjoy all the wonderful alien-looking plants Jan posts up.
So sorry you haven't been able to get into the garden to enjoy the flowers. I hope you'll soon be up and about again.
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Bar & Grill [Public] / Re: The Garden Thread that two people wanted
« Last post by Jeff Tanyard on March 28, 2025, 01:47:26 PM »Stuff is blooming around here, but I've been sick, so I haven't been outside much. 
Hopefully I'll get well before the flowers fade so I can enjoy the spring a little. The season arrived a week or two earlier than usual this year, but we also had some brutally cold and dry stretches during the winter, so I guess it averages out.
In the meantime, I'll just enjoy all the wonderful alien-looking plants Jan posts up.
Hopefully I'll get well before the flowers fade so I can enjoy the spring a little. The season arrived a week or two earlier than usual this year, but we also had some brutally cold and dry stretches during the winter, so I guess it averages out.
In the meantime, I'll just enjoy all the wonderful alien-looking plants Jan posts up.
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Marketing Loft [Public] / Re: Amazon no longer does the "heavy lifting"?
« Last post by PJ Post on March 27, 2025, 10:08:06 PM »Yet another reason to adopt a branding strategy that gives the Creative control over their work. Relying on any single platform is unnecessarily risky, especially since we have so many options now.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Samples coming on Pre-Orders
« Last post by TimothyEllis on March 27, 2025, 02:08:13 PM »Received this from Amazon today.
I'm hoping this will be a good thing.
Having just released a book 1 in a new series with a new main character, the Pre-Orders were well down.
With luck, having a pre-order sample there for that last week might just encourage more pre-orders at the last minute, because people get hooked on the actual beginning of the story, instead of just trying to gauge by the blurb and cover.
I'm hoping, anyway.
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Hello,
We?re excited to share that Amazon will test allowing customers to read a sample of your eBook pre-order starting the week of April 14. This feature will work exactly like the ?Read Sample? feature that displays for books on Amazon today. It?ll show a preview, up to 10% from your current manuscript?s content to engage potential readers.
If you?ve already submitted your manuscript, Amazon will automatically generate the reading sample. If no manuscript is currently uploaded, then no reading sample will be shown.
I'm hoping this will be a good thing.
Having just released a book 1 in a new series with a new main character, the Pre-Orders were well down.
With luck, having a pre-order sample there for that last week might just encourage more pre-orders at the last minute, because people get hooked on the actual beginning of the story, instead of just trying to gauge by the blurb and cover.
I'm hoping, anyway.
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Marketing Loft [Public] / Re: Amazon no longer does the "heavy lifting"?
« Last post by Anarchist on March 27, 2025, 09:52:34 AM »Amazon will promote your book, particularly during the honeymoon phase.
But more than ever, it wants you to demonstrate why it should. That means high conversion rate and sales velocity.
But more than ever, it wants you to demonstrate why it should. That means high conversion rate and sales velocity.
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Marketing Loft [Public] / Re: Amazon no longer does the "heavy lifting"?
« Last post by R. C. on March 27, 2025, 06:12:22 AM »At the very least, it does less lifting than it used to.
Lifting less advertising money from pocket...
R.C.
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Marketing Loft [Public] / Re: Amazon no longer does the "heavy lifting"?
« Last post by Bill Hiatt on March 27, 2025, 06:09:11 AM »At the very least, it does less lifting than it used to.
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Marketing Loft [Public] / Amazon no longer does the "heavy lifting"?
« Last post by Gregg Bell on March 27, 2025, 05:30:57 AM »A while back in the forum here I mentioned that if you run a great launch promo, Amazon will take over and do "the heavy lifting." Someone replied: 'Amazon no longer does the heavy lifting.' Well, I was about to launch my promo and either didn't believe it or didn't want to believe it. Now I've run my promo and the results are dreadful. So--say it ain't so!--it's true that Amazon no longer does the heavy lifting?
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Bar & Grill [Public] / Re: Silly Spammers
« Last post by Jan Hurst-Nicholson on March 27, 2025, 12:48:33 AM »You do realize that no one wants pianos these days and mostly one has to pay to have them hauled away to the dump? The innards of a piano that is old have to be completely replaced, so the value of an antique piano is usually in its case only. Nice wood, special wood, interesting design, etc. We have one in the family: a grand piano, although thank god not a concert grand, which runs even larger nearly 100 years old. It takes up a lot of space in a modest living room in the kind of modest house that doesn't have a "great room" or a "family room." The problem is, the person it was willed to has such serious tinnitus that it is never played anymore. So it is rotting from the inside, and meanwhile there's too much sentimental value attached to it to let it go. We know someone who ended up chopping up a piano to get rid of it economically. It may come to that.
So, no, you do not want a piano. It is the modern equivalent of a white elephant--the original white elephant, that is.
They've been targeting retirement homes in SA. My friend's retirement home was scammed. They thought a piano would be a lovely addition to their entertainment. The committee even discussed where it would go.
