Browsing the blog archives for March, 2009

An eBay Feedback DSR Moral Dilemma: What would you do?

As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been doing a little of shopping on eBay lately. The seller of one of the items I purchased emailed me to chat, we are both collectors of the same thing, and we had a nice little chat about it. Over the course of the conversation, she mentioned [...]

For authors: How to update your book cover image on Amazon

Amazon can be notoriously sluggish with updating book cover art, especially with small press or print-on-demand books. The listing for the book will often appear weeks before they update their catalog and the sight of the “no cover image” Amazon smile has sent many a new author into a panic.
The first thing to remember [...]

What is the Amazon Search Inside the Book program? Do I need it and how do I join it?

The Amazon Search Inside the Book program is a free program that provides a preview of your book on the Amazon site that is designed to entice buyers to purchase your book by letting them browse it as they would in a physical bookstore. The pages of the book appear with watermarks on them to [...]

What’s annoying me now: Combined eBay checkout

I have been doing a little shopping on eBay lately to take advantage of these decreased prices everyone is on about which I am discovering, much to my disappointment, are largely a myth in the categories I shop. Even so, I have won a few things and as I went to pay, I had my [...]