The Thunder King is Book 3 of my Bell Mountain series, and amazon.com has dunked it into a mystery. Can any of you help me figure it out?
The Thunder King is, of course, a fantasy-adventure story for readers 12 years old and up. Click “Books” at the top of this page and check it out–you’ll soon get the idea.
Why, then, has amazon.com got this book listed under Labor & Industrial Relations? Where it is not doing very well, I hasten to ad. By the way, this is only with the paperback. They are aware that the kindle version of the book has absolutely nothing to do with labor and industrial relations.
Is this why my sales are off? People look it up on amazon.com and think it’s about collective bargaining or grievances?
Yo, everybody! I promise The Thunder King will never, never get into discussions of how to allot overtime, how to cope with a drunken shop steward, or contract negotiations. Promise, promise, promise! Not that those subjects are unworthy of examination–but if you’re looking for high adventure in an unfamiliar world full of strange beasts and dangerous human beings, well… that we have.
I would ask amazon about this, but I have no idea how to put a question to them.
Actually, I have found that Amazon has gone a little wacky lately. I don’t know what is going on, but you can contact customer service, talk to them, and they usually are pretty eager to be of help. Hope you get this straightened out.
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Lee Duigon wrote:
> leeduigon posted: “The Thunder King is Book 3 of my Bell Mountain series, > and amazon.com has dunked it into a mystery. Can any of you help me > figure it out? The Thunder King is, of course, a fantasy-adventure story > for readers 12 years old and up. Click “Books” at the to” >
Here’s a link you can try to update product information. Hopefully it will bring you to the page for your book. It did for me, but I can’t change info. Hope it works.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/gfix/makeCorrections.html?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B005LYEFU6&merchantID=&ref_=gfix-product-detail-catalog&storeID=books
Was it always that way, or did something change? If your publisher set up your books with Amazon they have control over the categories it is listed under. I entered my own though CreateSpace for the paperback books and through Kindle Direct Publishing for the ebook. I know your process was different than mine though.
I will have to phone them tomorrow and ask what’s what. “Labor and Industrial Relations”… sheesh!
Astonishing. It’s really puzzling how they came up with that category. I sure hope you can get this sorted out.
Any luck?
My publisher is going to look into it. They hadn’t noticed it before.