By: Caleb J. Ross

Caleb J. Ross — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:01:43 +0000

Thanks for the love, Iris! I’ve learned, though it’s been a hard pill to swallow, that sometimes with publishers you have to take matters into your own hands. I say do everything you can to sell your book. If your publisher gets mad at you for this, then they probably aren’t a publisher you want to work with. I mean, how can a publisher get mad at you for trying to help make them money? For whatever it’s worth, I say push forward with sending information directly to the sites if you have to.

By: Iris Floyd

Iris Floyd — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:12:08 +0000

This article on metadata is the most helpful article I have read. I have an on-going battle with my publisher about the feeder sites of their distributor NOT having information on my book even though it is carried on the sites. At several of the sites, my book only pulls up by the author’s name and not by title.

For some unexplained reason they don’t feel they can go around the distributor and send the information directly to the feeder sites. They also didn’t want to do it for the major sites until I sent them a request by Amazon for information corrections to help sell the books they offered. The problem is that they don’t want me to send the sites the info either. I guess they don’t want to piss off the distributor…but I’m getting to the point of doing it anyway.

Thanks, again!

My son sent me this article. I will have to hug him big time for it!

Comments on: Book Metadata. Let the Algorithm Sell Your Books For You. A Primer.

By: Caleb J. Ross

By: Iris Floyd