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provides access to bulk listing and inventory tools that can help
automate your bookkeeping.
Catalog accuracy
Like Woody Allen once remarked about life, 80 percent of book sales
success is “just showing up.” The more information potential buyers
know about your book, the more likely they are to buy it. Your book’s
detail page on Amazon is where readers make their buying decision. The
address is:
Replace the above letters ISBN with your book’s ISBN digits.
Ensure your book’s cover art is displayed on your book’s Amazon
product page. Despite the popular saying to the contrary, people do
judge a book by its cover. It’s amazing how many books on Amazon lack
a cover image, something easily corrected by the publisher. Perception
is everything: Shoppers who notice a missing cover image might assume
the book isn’t available. In a study of 20,000 titles where a missing cover
image was replaced, sales rose an average of 60 percent, according to
BarnesAndNoble.com.
Ensure your title’s bibliographic data is displayed properly on
Amazon at least once a week, including title, description, editorial
reviews, format, number of pages, and other basic data. Most book sales
occur on Amazon after a customer searches for keywords related to a
book, so if any of this information isn’t displayed correctly, readers can’t
find your book.
The fastest method for correcting a listing is to use the catalog
update form on Amazon’s site. At the bottom of the book’s detail page,
find the blue suggestion box labeled Feedback, and click Update
product info. Here you can submit corrections using Amazon’s Catalog
Update Form for these elements:
Title
Author
Publisher
Binding
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