Yes, Amazon is out to get you for leaving Select. 
Or else KDP is updating sales a bit slowly and won't catch up until tonight.
Or else KDP is updating sales a bit slowly and won't catch up until tonight.
Yes! Yes! That's what I'm talking about! Keep it coming!JRTomlin said:Yes, Amazon is out to get you for leaving Select.
Or else KDP is updating sales a bit slowly and won't catch up until tonight.![]()
Hmmm ... the above words appear to be in English, but I just can't seem to comprehend them ... concept too alien ... Erk! "Internal Server Error!"ElHawk said:Set a single time during the day to check your sales, and whenever you are tempted to peek at any other time of the day, go write something instead.It'll cure that post-Select paranoia fast!
Not really interested in debating the Select/anti-Select question, Joe -- I know you're firmly against it, but I believe it's served me well so far and serves many authors well.Joe Vasicek said:Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean everyone isn't out to get you.
Seriously, a part of me wonders if your sales are dropping off because of some Amazon algorithm that favors Select books over non-Select books, if only in a marginal way. I wouldn't put it past them.
But ultimately, you've got to take the long-term view and ask yourself "what am I going to regret more in five years: pulling my books from Select or not getting out?"
In that case, you're not nearly as paranoid as I am.Becca Mills said:Not really interested in debating the Select/anti-Select question, Joe -- I know you're firmly against it, but I believe it's served me well so far and serves many authors well.
I wasn't worried that Amazon had suddenly stacked the deck against my book b/c it left Select, but rather that the transition might've caused some kind of glitch in KDP for that book. If there were an algorithm that favored Select books over non-Select books, I wouldn't expect it to cause a 54-sales-to-0 -in-one-day kind of difference. Something that extreme would've been apparent to everyone ages ago.
Plus, I can look at the popularity and best-seller lists and see the book there, which means readers can too. That's how they'd be finding the book, mainly.
I don't think there is anything "traditional" any more. Or perhaps we all have a different definition of "sharp rise"TexasGirl said:Traditionally, coming off free days you have a sharp rise for one day, then a decline, then another sharp rise.
Dalya has it. *This* is the explanation for everything!Dalya said:It's Monday.