This highlights the issue that for each marketplace you will have to go into the respective Author Central store, UK, US, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, etc. The US site enables you to provide much more information about your book. That is, until I went on the Author Central page.
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When I set up my author page, I kept coming across advice to add editorial reviews but I couldn’t find how to do so. This is a free service allowing authors to market their books listed in Amazon’s catalogue.
Guidance is similarly US-centric on Amazon Author Central. This includes the advice given on Kindle Direct Publishing (more on this later), which uses American publishing standards, including imperial measurements, as formatting examples. Note, however, not every Amazon store has the author page facility, Amazon Australia being one example.ĭepending on your ‘local’ (Amazon territory) store, your author page can display multimedia, such as photos, short (1-2 minute) trailers, videos of readings or talks, plus a biography, and other information.īear in mind, most guidance for Amazon authors appears to be written for the American author. It is freely available to all published authors. Amazon Author PageĪs Amazon holds around two-thirds of the global online book market, it is not a bad idea to have an Amazon author page. I will be writing about different aspects of marketing in future blogs, but here I want to focus on Amazon and the author. Whether an author is published traditionally or independently, marketing is essential for book sales.
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