A bit of Amazon oddity...

[anghara]

There's an odd little rubric on Amazon.com which asks "What do customers ultimately buy after viewing items like this?"

For "Jin SHei", I get

55% buy Blue Fingers : A Ninja's Tale by Cheryl Aylward Whitesel $9.75
27% buy The Aware (The Isles of Glory) by Glenda Larke $6.99
12% buy the item featured on this page: The Secrets of Jin-shei by Alma Alexander $10.17
6% buy Changer of Days by Alma Alexander $6.99

OOOOkay.

I mean Glenda Larke is a friend and a fine writer, but what's this? People come bouncing onto the "Jin Shei" Amazon page, and then nerly a THIRD of them bounce off to buy a book by someone else entirely? I'm WOUNDED, I am... :)

I mean, even putting the two percentages that DO pertain to me together, and I get more than fifty percent of folks who peer at my book running off to buy something about ninjas instead...? Maybe I should rethink my plots...

Oh well. Tomorrow is a new month. One heaves a deep philosophical sigh and soldiers on (or, if I've learned my lesson here, should that be ninjas on...?)

Comments

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

I noticed this on my own books on amazon and . . . well, it's depressing. Who wants to know that someone looked at their book . . . and then passed, going to some other book? I mean, what does that other book have that mine doesn't? What made the person viewing it decide to move elsewhere? WTF?

That was my general escalating reaction when I saw the new feature. Not much I can do about it thought.

Do you have any idea how one gets their books onto the "going to be released soon" page? I'm assuming it's a publisher-paid kind of thing, but if not I'd hate to not have my book on the list because I didn't check a box somewhere or something.

[anghara.livejournal.com]

Well, EXACTLY.

As to how you get onto the other list - I honestly have no idea. Perhaps you might ask your publisher's publicity department to look into it (and if you find out antyhing useful, let us know! [grin])