26 July 2010

I think I'm out of my league here.

So CreateSpace has listed my book as "Live on Amazon" for the last few days, but they didn't provide me with a link (that I could discover), and nothing I typed into Amazon's search engine brought it up. I was pretty well confused and a little annoyed.

I searched by title, author, and ISBN. Nothing, nada, zilch. In final desperation, I navigated to someone else's book link and swapped out their ISBN with mine in the web address.

And the heavens opened.

Seriously? What a horrific pain-in-the-posterior.

I am one of those rare weirdos who has absolutely no Amazon experience. I don't have an account there, I don't browse there, I don't have their homepage bookmarked. The scant few times I've wanted to buy something from Amazon, I conned someone with an account into doing it for me. I think. I don't really spend money all that often. (It's a side-effect of living off savings while pursuing a far-fetched dream.)

So, I have no idea what to do with this listing. Maybe I don't have to do anything. Maybe it'll start showing up in the search engines on its own. The book apparently needs to be tagged, and there are no reviews, obviously (hint hint, sister). I guess I need to break down and register for an Amazon account, yes?

Meh.

1 comments:

Kristen said... Best Blogger Tips

Why me? Oh, yeah, I have an Amazon account. It's not that hard to set one up, you know.
^_~

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