How to Tame Amazon’s Algorithm to Increase your Sales Rank

When I launched Honest Fibs the other day, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that with just a couple of dozen sales in a few days, it had reached the phenomenal sales rank of some #40,000. This got me thinking: how is that even possible? I don’t think any...

Will Amazon Punish You For Your Typos?

As soon as the news came that Amazon will start paying a lot more attention to poorly edited books, panic ensued among the various forums. Thankfully, as John Doppler explains on Words on Words, things aren’t quite that bad. It all started when Good E-Reader...

A Dastardly Kind of Book Piracy

I’ve already written about piracy. Twice, in fact: in Har! How to Deal with Book Piracy and in Should I fear Piracy? Insights from the PWC report. In both cases, I advised people to keep calm about it. There is a kind of piracy that ticks me off, though. That of...