[EmparentingMom]

Hi, so I have been trying to set up an AMS account for Australia, and it appears that you need to either have a Seller Central account or a Vendor account. Anyone figured out how authors can advertise with AMS in Australia?

 

[鬼]

Have you tried following the direct link from your KDP dashboard? Australia is at the bottom of the list and will be connected to your KDP acct.

 

[EmparentingMom]

Thanks!

 

[alhawke]

I tried Australia for a month and have since cancelled. My impressions were 3 on the same ad that garnered up to one thousand per day in other countries. Something's wrong there. Hopefully they can fix in the future.

 

[Patty Jansen]

I tried Australia for a month and have since cancelled. My impressions were 3 on the same ad that garnered up to one thousand per day in other countries. Something's wrong there. Hopefully they can fix in the future.

There is nothing "wrong".

Just that Australia's population is less than a tenth of the US, the Amazon store is anaemic and the % of people shopping there for ebooks even less. So you got less than a tenth of the audience with very poor market penetration resulting in not many places to put your ads.

 

[alhawke]

I thought it might be the ad or something. Maybe I'll restart it again there in the future.

I started the ad hoping that, because the market is smaller in Australia, it might be less competitive than US AMS. But, so far, I've only succeeded a little outside the US with the UK AMS market.

 

[9 Diamonds]

There is nothing "wrong".

Just that Australia's population is less than a tenth of the US, the Amazon store is anaemic and the % of people shopping there for ebooks even less. So you got less than a tenth of the audience with very poor market penetration resulting in not many places to put your ads.

What Patty said.

 

[travelinged]

The advertising set up for Oz is quite different than for .com or uk. It seems really hard to market books with it... it doesn't seem to be set up for books. Amazon hasn't been able to provide much help in targeting other to say, "well, you can't really do that."

So, eh. It isn't just market size, although that is CERTAINLY a factor.