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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / What is KDP doing with virtual audiobooks now?
« Last post by TimothyEllis on November 20, 2025, 06:30:09 PM »I'm steadily getting notifications from KDP that say books which haven't had any changes have been changed and the audiobook is now ready to be checked.
7 of them so far, in 2 different series.
One has to wonder if they've made a change to the Bot doing the narration of them, and instead of just redoing them and getting the new version out, they're telling the author they made a change and so need to resubmit them.
Typical KDP notification BS. Make it the author's problem for something they're doing. *sigh* [We need a sigh smiley.]
I'm doing nothing until they stop coming.
Anyone else getting them?
7 of them so far, in 2 different series.
One has to wonder if they've made a change to the Bot doing the narration of them, and instead of just redoing them and getting the new version out, they're telling the author they made a change and so need to resubmit them.
Typical KDP notification BS. Make it the author's problem for something they're doing. *sigh* [We need a sigh smiley.]
I'm doing nothing until they stop coming.
Anyone else getting them?
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: Audiobook publishing slowdown affecting access to eBook. WTF?
« Last post by TimothyEllis on November 12, 2025, 02:15:26 AM »Update.
I was finally able to update the eBook with the Audio still publishing.
I just got the emails saying the eBook had been published, and the Audiobook was ready to be updated. But the Audiobook was still showing 'publishing'.
So I updated the Audiobook anyway, and resubmitted.
Now the eBook is locked out again.
New change to the submission check list. The audiobook gets done last now, after waiting a few days for goofs to be reported.
I was finally able to update the eBook with the Audio still publishing.
I just got the emails saying the eBook had been published, and the Audiobook was ready to be updated. But the Audiobook was still showing 'publishing'.
So I updated the Audiobook anyway, and resubmitted.
Now the eBook is locked out again.
New change to the submission check list. The audiobook gets done last now, after waiting a few days for goofs to be reported.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: Audiobook publishing slowdown affecting access to eBook. WTF?
« Last post by TimothyEllis on November 12, 2025, 12:25:20 AM »No response from KDP, but the book is accessible now, finally.
The Audio is still not published, so there must be some slowdown in them now. Maybe from the Audible end? Just guessing.
The Audio is still not published, so there must be some slowdown in them now. Maybe from the Audible end? Just guessing.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: Audiobook publishing slowdown affecting access to eBook. WTF?
« Last post by TimothyEllis on November 11, 2025, 02:13:13 PM »I'd report and contact Amazon if it's been 3 days.
I wonder if you could stop the audio release for now? Then publish the ebook and re-release the audiobook later? Problem with that is you don't know for sure what the system will do with that. Any change could make it worse.
I have reported it now.
The whole book is locked up, so there is nothing that can be accessed now until the audiobook publishes.
Next time, I'm going to delay doing the audiobook until after the initial goof reports are in.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: Audiobook publishing slowdown affecting access to eBook. WTF?
« Last post by alhawke on November 11, 2025, 02:09:23 PM »I'd report and contact Amazon if it's been 3 days.
I wonder if you could stop the audio release for now? Then publish the ebook and re-release the audiobook later? Problem with that is you don't know for sure what the system will do with that. Any change could make it worse.
I wonder if you could stop the audio release for now? Then publish the ebook and re-release the audiobook later? Problem with that is you don't know for sure what the system will do with that. Any change could make it worse.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Audiobook publishing slowdown affecting access to eBook. WTF?
« Last post by TimothyEllis on November 11, 2025, 11:18:25 AM »My weekend release is now in lockdown still because of the audiobook.
The virtual voice audio is taking days to publish where it used to take hours, and the eBook is locked until it does.
So I've got several goofs that need to be fixed before someone reports them, and no access to the book at all to do that.
What's going on with the audiobooks now?
They used to publish in 6-8 hours. This one is now into it's 3rd day.
And I don't recall the eBook being locked while the audio published before either.
Anyone know what's going on?
I'm wondering if I should report it as a bug or not.
The virtual voice audio is taking days to publish where it used to take hours, and the eBook is locked until it does.
So I've got several goofs that need to be fixed before someone reports them, and no access to the book at all to do that.
What's going on with the audiobooks now?
They used to publish in 6-8 hours. This one is now into it's 3rd day.
And I don't recall the eBook being locked while the audio published before either.
Anyone know what's going on?
I'm wondering if I should report it as a bug or not.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: What the hell Amazon? What did you bozo's do now?
« Last post by TimothyEllis on November 07, 2025, 03:02:31 AM »Must have been a glitch.
It's all back now.
It's all back now.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: What the hell Amazon? What did you bozo's do now?
« Last post by alhawke on November 07, 2025, 02:40:43 AM »Reviews are gone?? Can you show the links and I'll check here in the US. That sounds like a total temporary glitch.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / What the hell Amazon? What did you bozo's do now?
« Last post by TimothyEllis on November 06, 2025, 08:17:38 PM »It appears the rank and series systems are down.
I just did Bookreport, and got no ranks on any of the books I monitor.
I checked a few, and a few others, and there are no ranks or series in the US store at all that I can find. The UK store was fine.
It's like half the product pages just vanished.
There's no revues there either, although the ranking numbers are still at the top, along with the orange tags.
Serious WTF, Amazon?
I just did Bookreport, and got no ranks on any of the books I monitor.
I checked a few, and a few others, and there are no ranks or series in the US store at all that I can find. The UK store was fine.
It's like half the product pages just vanished.
There's no revues there either, although the ranking numbers are still at the top, along with the orange tags.
Serious WTF, Amazon?