If there's a secret to getting into better categories than the handful Nook Press offer on their dashboard, I'd love to know it too.

 

I've never found B&N's keywords to be of much use at all.  Honestly, it seems like half the time I'd go into Nookpress and find what I had put there previously completely gone. 

 

Barnes and Noble doesn't use keywords. There is a keyword metadata field in the Nook Press UI that is a holdover from the old PubIt system, but it is not used and never has been used. It was originally added to support international sales through other book chains, but that never happened and apparently it wasn't worth the effort to just get rid of it from the UI. Or maybe the lone programmer they've got chained in the basement keeps hoping that one day she'll have time to get around to implementing keywords in the search engine.

If you want your book searchable by keywords, your only option is to stuff keywords into the title.

 

Thanks all. So how are people getting into the limited subcats? If I wanted Post-Apoc the best I can choose from the Nook Press Dashboard would be Science Fiction & Fantasy. What's the secret?

 

If I were to guess, I'd imagine that the other categories are for print books - much like there are differences between categories for print and Kindle books on Amazon. IIRC, I've heard people say that they were able to get their books into other categories like that by emailing Nook Press support.

Given that reliable sightings of Nook Press support are far, far, far more rare than reliable sightings of Bigfoot, I'd take that with a grain of salt the size of Chicago.