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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: I just got dinged in AC - WTF moment.
« Last post by Bill Hiatt on January 29, 2024, 03:01:27 AM »
On the follower list, I just got an email announcing a new release of yours on the actual release date (yesterday). Maybe someone at Amazon has made an adjustment after reading some of our earlier commentary on the general uselessness of following authors on Amazon. I'm interested to see what happens with my next release.

Regardless, Amazon should explain its error messages. That's my complaint about a lot of companies. (When Doordash had a problem with my payment method, I got "Something went wrong. Try again" rather than anything useful. In that case, the customer support person also gave me an incorrect answer.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / I just got dinged in AC - WTF moment.
« Last post by TimothyEllis on January 28, 2024, 07:25:38 PM »
I just tried to update my Author Central Bio, and got dinged with a content violation.

Nothing but the error message, which tells you nothing at all.

Turned out to be the paragraph which contained the link to my mailing list, and mentioning Bookbub.

Could have been either or both, but was most likely the link.

What pisses me off about that is Amazon do nothing useful with the follower list, and yet, stop people going to a list that is actually useful.

But the actual error message is really bad IT. It should at least contain what sort of thing it dinged on, not a generic you violated content guidelines.

To add insult to injury, there is no link to those guidelines anywhere on AC that I could find, and I had to google them, and then guess what the problem was.

Really BAD Amazon!
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: is the book world turning against Goodreads?
« Last post by Bill Hiatt on January 23, 2024, 11:56:43 PM »
Typically, major Amazon fixes happen only after a lot of bad press, so if there is more public criticism, Amazon might do something.

As others have said, though, it's for readers. Its only sin in that regard was that it pretended to be for authors, too.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: is the book world turning against Goodreads?
« Last post by APP on January 23, 2024, 02:44:55 AM »
For those of you that make use of Goodreads, but are disappointed in how it continues to go downhill, this article in the Washington Post (you may encounter a paywall) describes four alternatives.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/22/book-tracking-apps-review-goodreads-alternative/
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: is the book world turning against Goodreads?
« Last post by Jeff Tanyard on December 21, 2023, 07:12:44 AM »
Goodreads is for readers, not authors.

My advice is to just leave it be.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: is the book world turning against Goodreads?
« Last post by LilyBLily on December 21, 2023, 05:03:23 AM »
I list my books on Goodreads and then walk away. Not a safe place for authors.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: is the book world turning against Goodreads?
« Last post by cecilia_writer on December 20, 2023, 07:19:40 PM »
I've never been very keen on Goodreads - I find it difficult to navigate and I only go there to look for bad reviews of books I didn't like, to see if anyone else disliked the same things. Though occasionally I've seen terrible reviews of books I did like too, and have been aghast at how violently some people express their views.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: is the book world turning against Goodreads?
« Last post by Post-Crisis D on December 20, 2023, 03:51:46 AM »
I am pretty sure I stopped using Goodreads before Amazon bought them so, IMO, the site was deteriorating before Amazon bought them and Amazon didn't do anything to improve it.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / is the book world turning against Goodreads?
« Last post by APP on December 20, 2023, 01:34:05 AM »
Since this article is essentially about Goodreads, I've placed it here even though it touches upon the Cait Corrain fiasco. I'm really disappointed in Amazon and how they've let the site deteriorate since they bought it. It had/has such great potential, and yet in many ways it's become a cesspool.

‘It’s totally unhinged’: is the book world turning against Goodreads?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/18/goodreads-review-bombing
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: Amazon Sponsored TV ads
« Last post by She-la-te-da on December 18, 2023, 08:26:59 AM »
I use ad blockers, so I don't see these. I don't click on videos embedded in anything. I doubt I'd ever use it myself. Learning regular ads is hard enough for me, trying to learn to do videos? Yeah. There's a reason I'm not doing TikTok. LOL

I'm such an old Luddite sometimes. :D
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