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Re: Dragon Queen: Avery Rome Book Three Live...
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 10:18 am
by RyanM
I would assume there are networks of people that would acquire books via KU, goto end and then return the book just so they can all claim higher sales. Such a scam would be easy to detect. One could hope that Amazon would have dire consequences for people acting in such a manner.
Re: Dragon Queen: Avery Rome Book Three Live...
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 11:22 am
by David
Agreed, but there is nothing shady about a reader getting a book on KU, reading it, and then buying it later on in a week or month. After all, amazon gets my ten bucks, plus a piece of the outright purchase.
If they didn't want legitimate double dips, all the books I read in KU wouldn't show up in recommendations.
That's my point, don't cheat the system, just use it.
Re: Dragon Queen: Avery Rome Book Three Live...
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 1:14 pm
by PS Power
So, the book seems to be up and alive! Yay!
Re: Dragon Queen: Avery Rome Book Three Live...
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 5:17 pm
by Glenn Cover
I find it interesting that the release date was the 26th, but not available until the 29th.
Re: Dragon Queen: Avery Rome Book Three Live...
Posted: Mon May 01, 2017 6:35 am
by PS Power
Glenn: It was put up on the 27th. (Zon almost always puts that date back a day. I do not know why, but it is virtually 100% of the time they do that.)
Then I put up that statement here, just to have something to say.
So, it was available before that. (What, I have to come up with salient and useful comments ALL the time?)
I'm just trying to put aside this particular incident as a sign of conspiracy or failure on anyone's part. It wasn't except for me, not being more clever when I posted on the 29th. I wasn't trying to be misleading. I'll attempt not to be that boring in the future.
Re: Dragon Queen: Avery Rome Book Three Live...
Posted: Mon May 01, 2017 7:27 am
by David
It's an amazon thing.
No conspiracy, just a weird system that's consistent for every author. When I check for new KU books in sci-fi-fi/fantasy, I always have to lag back a day or two behind on publication date, so I don't miss most of them. Today's releases will consistently only show pre-published books in the system.
Re: Dragon Queen: Avery Rome Book Three Live...
Posted: Mon May 01, 2017 1:25 pm
by PS Power
It really does take four or five days to really hit the system for Amazon.
I think that's just because they're so large.