A Buy now on Amazon

My book is now shown as a "Buy" on Amazon. Did something happen that changed their policy toward PA books? Or, could it be that they placed the "Buy" on for books they have in stock?

Are you a new PA author?

No, turkel. Not new.
All PA books were on Amazon until the fiasco with the printing thing, and then the "buy" button was removed. I'm curious that it has now reappeared.

My guess: amazon gave up on their idiotic policy.

Either that or they knew it was your birthday.

E. Don's book has a buy now button, but not Dick's, Alice's, Carol's, Brew's. Betty's or mine.

When last I checked, my book still had its "add to shopping cart" button on amazon, But I'm published with E-Book Time, LLC, a differnt publisher. Last time I checked, I was the 2,187,578th. best seller on Amazon.com.

New authors seems to get the buy button, that's why I asked.

As far as I know (and someone correct me if I am wrong), Amazon's policies are unchanged. If anyone gave in, it was PA.

PA has a vested interest in keeping their books readily available on Amazon.

Shelagh wrote:

E. Don's book has a buy now button, but not Dick's, Alice's, Carol's, Brew's. Betty's or mine.

Nor mine.

Ann

Way to go, Gordon! From what I've seen, if someone buys one book you'll pass a couple of million ahead of you.

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I can't find your book on Amazon, Merri. What am I doing wrong?

At a list price of $27.95 for a paperback, I doubt having the "Buy" button will mean much.

Phil, if you type in Merri Hiatt, it will come up on Amazon.com. The title of the book is Purity. Oh, better yet, I'll cut/paste a link here. Doh! I just thought of that.
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Thanks, Merri. I had tried both your name and the book title and it wouldn't work. Now it does.

Go figure...

Phil,

I just blame it on the computer! hee hee

The price has been added to Forever Friends on B & N:

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And the price is ... $21.50. Funny thing is that the $9.99 price on Amazon.com is not attracting sales from the buying public -- most of the books bought on Amazon were sold to contributors. According to Lulu, the list price should be the same on all the online stores as it is on Lulu.com (but the online stores can set their own retail price). According to Amazon the list price is $9.99; according to Lulu, the list price is $17.22. As publisher, I seem to have no control at all over list price or retail price, except for the price on Lulu.com. Maybe this is the same for PA.

As has been mentioned, newer PA releases have a buy button on Amazon, but Abe's has been out for quite some time so how can that be explained?
Here is a legitimate question: Why has the price been reduced on recent PA releases but not the earlier books? Abe's price has also been reduced. Has PA announced any of this?

PA sends me all of the discount announcements; but I didn't receive any buy button at Amazon.com or pricing info. In fact, I think I'm off their discount list! My book has no "buy" button except the Kindle edition which is Amazon's. Silly me; I tried to post on the AuthorNews. It didn't post.

The stories in The World Outside the Window Anthology tie back to our published novels and, in my case, provide quite an advertisement for PA. I am quite disappointed that my mere questions (solicited by them) were the cause of such ire. One of my unanswered questions pertained to the Amazon.com buy button. One way not to answer questions is to rescind the contract.

Dick Stodghill wrote:

As has been mentioned, newer PA releases have a buy button on Amazon, but Abe's has been out for quite some time so how can that be explained?
Here is a legitimate question: Why has the price been reduced on recent PA releases but not the earlier books? Abe's price has also been reduced. Has PA announced any of this?

Dick,

I think this is more likely to be Amazon playing games, not PA. All the recent books sent to distribution by Lulu.com, self-published by UK authors, have prices on amazon.com and amazon.co.uk at the same amount in dollars and pounds ($x.xx on amazon.com, £x.xx on amazon.co.uk). I have sent literally dozens of messages through all the various means of submitting information to Amazon to ask them to change this but they never respond to my enquiry, instead I receive daft responses like this:

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Hello from Amazon.com,

It may be easier to provide better service for this issue over the phone. You can reach us by phone directly by calling 1-866-321-8851 or using the Contact Us option in the right-hand column of our Kindle Support pages at:

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Contacting us through the website allows you to verify security before a call is placed and ensures we have your account information ready when we call you. Our live customer service associates are available from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, seven days a week.

Thank you for shopping at Amazon.com.

Please let us know if this e-mail resolved your question:

This is a reply to a question about the difference in prices, nothing at all to do with Kindle. It is a standard reply message and I have received all kinds of standard replies but nothing at all about pricing. Yet another reply to the same pricing question, this time about Advantage:

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Greetings,

The e-mail address you are writing from is not currently listed as an official contact on any Advantage account in our records. For our members' protection, we can only provide information or make adjustments to Advantage accounts if the request comes from an e-mail address associated with the account.

Please send your inquiry again using our "Contact Us" form. Log into your Advantage account and click the "Contact Us" link at the bottom of any page.

If the contact e-mail address for the Advantage account has changed, you should update the e-mail address online. Log in to your account, click the Settings tab, select "Password & Security" from the green navigation bar, and follow the instructions on the form. Remember to click "Update" to save your changes.

Best regards,

Shailaja G.
Member Services
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It is impossible to receive an answer from Amazon about their pricing policy. This must be a nightmare for publishers such as PA, with so many books at different prices that they send to Amazon and then lose control of the amount stored in Amazon's database. When Amazon make a mistake, they are in no hurry to correct it.

Dick,
I didn't notice that the price was reduced except for the "Used" book portion.
I did a Google on my book title today and was surprised to see my book on the Target website:
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They have the $27.95 crossed through and the price of $21.95 shown with a $6.00 savings. Actually, $21.95 was the original list price.

Hi Abe,

You will find your book listed on 45 bookstores here:

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The list price is £18.97 but I can buy it on Amazon marketplace for £13.95 (including shipping).

I don't think Amazon would change its policy. I'll bet PA has started having its recent issues printed by Amazon's BookSurge.