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The Amazon Trifecta

Posted on by under Audio Editions, Historical Romance, Medieval romance, Publishing

Amazon was in attendance at the Novelists’ Inc conference last week, and they mentioned again several programs of theirs. I know about these, but you might not. They’re excellent programs and bear revisiting.

What’s cool about these two programs is that they come out of Amazon’s understanding that readers like to have their books in different formats and might have one title in several different formats. For example, I know that some of you like to buy a print copy as well as a digital one of the books you think are “keepers”.

Amazon MatchbookAmazon’s MatchBook program can save you money on those keepers. If you’ve bought the print edition of a book from Amazon, the digital edition (if it’s enrolled in this program) will be available to you to buy at a discounted price.

All of my indie-pubbed titles are enrolled in Matchbook.

Here’s the landing page for Matchbook. You can log in and find your books that qualify.

Kindle WhispersyncThe second such program applies to audiobooks. If you have digital editions of books on your Kindle that are also available in audio, you can get the audio edition for jut $1.99. See? Here’s the page for The Rogue – check out that last line:

The Rogue in Audio for $1.99Again, there’s a link on the page to find out what books on your Kindle have audio editions available.

Isn’t that cool?

Goodreads and Books

Posted on by under Miscellaneous Musing

Well, I finally have moseyed over to Goodreads and started to poke around. I had signed up last year (you can find me right here) to host some contests, selected a bunch of my books and not really had time to go through things. This past weekend, I had the brilliant idea that I’d add the covers for my new releases.

Wow. There are so many editions added for my books – I looked at THE BEAUTY – and most of the ISBN#’s don’t match the ones I know! I’m not sure where to start on combining files and/or eliminated them so have asked the good peeps at Goodreads for help. I think it makes sense to sort out what’s there before adding new editions, but we’ll see what they advise.

See? Just when you think your job jar is getting empty, you find out otherwise. I think I’ll go hide out with Murdoch and Isabella, and not think about databases for a while…those two have gotten themselves into ferocious trouble and there’s a chase scene to write. Doesn’t that sound like more fun?