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[Selena_Kitt]

What was the relation between Amazon banning your books and the sales going up on B&N -- did the word get out to look for SK on B&N somehow?

B&N is the next biggest seller, so if Amazon doesn't carry it, folks generally look there. Couple that with the fact that it was just before xmas, and bunches of people got Nooks in their stockings.

 

[JT_Stone]

{As for B&N being a joke - my sales skyrocketed on B&N after Amazon banned my books. The numbers are mind-boggling. I sold 1400 books in ONE DAY on B&N after Amazon banned my books and it's pushed me into B&N's top ten Pubit books. This won't last - but gee, thanks Amazon.}​

Wow!!! That's amazing. I was kind of wondering what someone like you sold. That's fantastic.

I was hoping B&N would move some books and I expected a jump after Christmas. More like a burp. I don't see how Amazon readers can jump to the B&N bookshelves. But you gotta love those numbers.

I'm also sanitizing some of my ibooks and I think that the MILF/Cougar/I Fucked Johnny's Mom books are going to fill in those numbers until those naughty readers sniff out SW, Google, and B&N apparently.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

{As for B&N being a joke - my sales skyrocketed on B&N after Amazon banned my books. The numbers are mind-boggling. I sold 1400 books in ONE DAY on B&N after Amazon banned my books and it's pushed me into B&N's top ten Pubit books. This won't last - but gee, thanks Amazon.}​

Wow!!! That's amazing. I was kind of wondering what someone like you sold. That's fantastic.

I was hoping B&N would move some books and I expected a jump after Christmas. More like a burp. I don't see how Amazon readers can jump to the B&N bookshelves. But you gotta love those numbers.

I'm also sanitizing some of my ibooks and I think that the MILF/Cougar/I Fucked Johnny's Mom books are going to fill in those numbers until those naughty readers sniff out SW, Google, and B&N apparently.

I'll give you a hint - put "erotic" and/or "erotica" in your TITLE. Their search function sucks.

 

[sr71plt]

B&N is the next biggest seller, so if Amazon doesn't carry it, folks generally look there. Couple that with the fact that it was just before xmas, and bunches of people got Nooks in their stockings.

May I assume that eXcessica's sales skyrocketed after it stopped letting the B&N posting go through Smashwords and eXcessica posted directly to B&N? (You own books seem to be dominating the B&N erotica best-seller pages).

 

[Carl East]

Epublishing (incest or not) can be very lucrative right now.

As for B&N being a joke - my sales skyrocketed on B&N after Amazon banned my books. The numbers are mind-boggling. I sold 1400 books in ONE DAY on B&N after Amazon banned my books and it's pushed me into B&N's top ten Pubit books. This won't last - but gee, thanks Amazon.

I've also now released non-incest versions of two of the banned books on Amazon. They're selling - not at the levels the others were, but they are selling.

This was my answer to the problem Selena, I changed the story line in ten of my incest stories so that there were no blood relatives and then put them all together into an anthology. I called it "Eroticism (Reworked)" and set it free at Smashwords, and sold one after ten minutes of release. lol

I just wish people out there would realize the difference between fact and fiction. One thing that is pissing me off about all this censorship is that Amazon claim we are not following their guidelines (which to my mind doesn't say a god damn thing about incest) yet if what offends them is incest then why did my book "Incest Urges of a Nymphomaniac" go undetected from them for over eight months. lol

Carl

 

[sr71plt]

yet if what offends them is incest then why did my book "Incest Urges of a Nymphomaniac" go undetected from them for over eight months. lol

Carl

Ooo, Ooo, I can answer this. The complaints hadn't built and a new policy hadn't been established until now. It's not easy for a company to decide something like this. They take time deciding to bite the "damned if you do/damned if you don't" bullet.

Also, your own media notoriety dropped a lot more recently than eight months ago.

 

[Carl East]

Success

I wanted to test the waters, so to speak, so I released the reworked erotica, which I called "Eroticism (Reworked)" onto Amazon and have just spotted that they are publishing it. Now whether or not that means it's been reviewed and they've decided it's acceptable only time will tell.

You see, even though I don't agree with their policy of censorship, I'd be a fool not to do whatever I can to make it acceptable once again. What do you all think?

Carl

 

[sr71plt]

I think Amazon doesn't review anything for content before it processes a book--that it only reacts to buyer complaints later.

 

[Carl East]

I think Amazon doesn't review anything for content before it processes a book--that it only reacts to buyer complaints later.

I'm not so sure because normally the review process doesn't last that long, yet on this occasion it took them twenty four hours to allow it through. We'll see.

Carl

ps I forgot to mention that I now have my own web site for samples, as I felt the samples that are given out at sites such as Amazon and B&N etc are inadequate. Check it out and drop me a line in the forum guys/gals.

http://www.ebooksamples.net/

 

[amicus]

Epublishing (incest or not) can be very lucrative right now.

As for B&N being a joke - my sales skyrocketed on B&N after Amazon banned my books. The numbers are mind-boggling. I sold 1400 books in ONE DAY on B&N after Amazon banned my books and it's pushed me into B&N's top ten Pubit books. This won't last - but gee, thanks Amazon.

I've also now released non-incest versions of two of the banned books on Amazon. They're selling - not at the levels the others were, but they are selling.

~~~

One bright light in the midst of all the gloom! Thank you for sharing that, Selena, thanks indeed!

Amicus

 

[Selena_Kitt]

May I assume that eXcessica's sales skyrocketed after it stopped letting the B&N posting go through Smashwords and eXcessica posted directly to B&N? (You own books seem to be dominating the B&N erotica best-seller pages).

Yes - Smashwords allows for very little description and their tagging isn't as good. So if you go through BN direct (i.e. PubIt) you can get more bang for your search buck.

As for Amazon checking things in advance - they ARE now. At least via machine. Anything with "incest" in the description gets tossed back out as a "violation of content guidelines." Just a head's up.

 

[Carl East]

Yes - Smashwords allows for very little description and their tagging isn't as good. So if you go through BN direct (i.e. PubIt) you can get more bang for your search buck.

Actually that's changed now Selena, Smashwords now allows 4000 characters in their description field. It was just announced.

Carl