How important is an Amazon author's page to your Kindle sales? I don't join a lot of sites on the Internet because I've seen people's email addresses snatched then used for spamming, so I hesitated about signing up for a page. Plus I'm not sure if I trust Amazon all that much not to use my info for nefarious purposes like constantly sending me spam which B&N does since I used a gift card there.
Pros and con, anyone? I'm probably not the only one wondering about this. :)
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As far as I can tell it has done nothing for me. I signed up because it was free and it lets me go to that page, then jump to all my books. I do refer people to it on occassion but I don't know if they visit.
I don't have an answer to your question, but regarding the email address being snatched for spam -- I use a second email address just for commercial sites like B&N so that all their junk mail goes there. I only visit that email once in a great while just to empty the junk all at once.
Thanks, Charles!
That's a great idea, Naomi. I hadn't thought of using a difffernt email address.
I'll say one thing. If I send them a new addition, they are back to me in hours. How can they manage this?
Luckily my email is still on a university server so I don't get much spam.
I do know with B&N you can opt out from their endless supply of e-mails.
I get them as well from Amazon (domestic and foreign), but since they go to an e-mail addy that rarely gets used except for junk, it becomes no big thing.
I can't imagine the number of people they must have working to keep up with so much data, Patti.
Thanks, George!
It doesn't make a damn bit of difference, Sandra. But it does centralize the work you have available on Amazon, so if someone happens to like a story you've written, they can easily find other books which you've appeared in without leaving the site
I thought that might be the main attraction, Keith, but I still wonder if many readers actually use it to find other work.
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