This afternoon, I feel like screaming into the void. Or maybe a pillow. A pillow won’t complain the way the void does. Honestly, I don’t blame the void. If an absolute stranger came and screamed at you, wouldn’t you complain?
Why am I screaming? Because Amazon.
And every indie author in the audio radiance nods in agreement. Because of course it’s Amazon.
Last weekend, I did a free book promotion. As is standard, I set my book free everyone but Amazon several days before the promotion actually started, and submitted those links to Amazon with the request to price match. This is how I’ve done every free book promotion since Amazon started requiring us to go through them to change the prices to free. Only this time, the price never changed. Friday night, I’m in the help chat freaking out because we go live at midnight and the only place things aren’t free is Amazon. Saturday, I post to all the socials saying “Amazon is having technical difficulties. Please download from Smashwords.”
Late Saturday night, I contacted KDP and said, “Cancel the price match. There’s no point. The promotion ends tomorrow.” I received confirmation that they would cancel the price match.
One week later… there’s a free download of The Sea Prince. Wait, what? I get online with KDP because if they’re price matching, then I must have missed something when I changed all the prices back. Where did I miss? I’m told that no, it wasn’t a price match. Those technical difficulties that kept them from doing the price match are still causing issues. We’ve fixed it now. There shouldn’t be any more free downloads. And there weren’t…
Until today. So I get back online with KDP, tell them what the person on Friday told me and ask them what is going on. The initial support person said, “Above my pay grade!” and escalated it to senior support. Senior support when digging and noticed something that the person on Friday should have seen, but somehow missed entirely…
The Sea Prince was listed as free in SIX European markets. The price change was never cancelled for them. Senior support has no idea why, but is pushing an immediate price fix and apologized for their colleague missing it. Oh, and no, sorry, we don’t compensate for lost royalties, even when it was our error. (I only asked for today, because this should have been caught on Friday.)
And that’s why we’re void-screaming today, your honor…
Work in Progress
Tales from the Arena: King of Swords
(Tales from the Arena, book 4)
Warmest Witches
(Coven Tree, book 3)
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