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By: One Year Anniversary Review: Blogging About Bloggers « Lorelle on WordPress

One Year Anniversary Review: Blogging About Bloggers « Lorelle on WordPress — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:08:22 +0000

[...] With corporations now monitoring blogs more closely, it was interesting to highlight for you the growing trend in business blogging with “McDonald’s Starts Internal Corporate Blog” and Amazon Offers Author Blogs, along with a few others. Everyone wants to get into the blogging business. [...]

By: Lorelle on WordPress » Author Blogs: Should Authors Blog? How?

Lorelle on WordPress » Author Blogs: Should Authors Blog? How? — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:51:22 +0000

[...] With the introduction of author blogs on Amazon.com, many authors who didn’t blog before are now being challenged to blog in order to help promote their books, events, and future projects. [...]

By: JRH

JRH — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:08:05 +0000

You can learn the correct format for the image (Amazon has an entire set of pages to inform us on specs and the like) and send a new image to Amazon via ftp, if you are web-savvy. (First you have to ‘request a pw’ and yes, it is a small process to endure, you gotta want it.) I know it may be less gratifying to chase after these details that, perhaps, someone else could tend, or that time might just right eventually, but the truth is, little is more gratifying than tracking down some of these things and correcting them yourself. It fills the waiting period that is so unbearable, waiting for someone else to take care of something. I’m not much of a waiter.

I speak from experience, of course, as I am also an author (and illustrator), and I tired of waiting for some ethereal force to correct these changes. There are others online that frustrate me, but some sites are not responsive to being nagged. Pity.

By: remotecontrolceo

remotecontrolceo — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:57:34 +0000

Many thanks for bringing this to my attention. I had no idea that Amazon had added this functionality. I currently have one book, Tips and Traps When Buying a Business for sale on Amazon and they have my next book Tips and Traps For Writing an Effective Business Plan listed too.

It has been frustrating to be isolated from being able to get changes made to the Amazon listing page – changes have to go through my publisher and are dreadfully slow. For example, they still do not have an image of the book cover up on the page that sells my book. I am told that it is in the ‘system’, yikes!