Geez, man.
So the Amazon thing. As you may recall, I had an incident where I noticed that there was a seller that had my book advertised for over a thousand dollars. I find it all rather funny, truth be told.
Well, what’s with the sellers listing my book as used?
To recap: I am self-published via CreateSpace. The distribution channels of CreateSpace, while getting better, are still pretty limited. The primary seller on the Amazon site is, in fact, Amason.That and I will be honest with you: sales had been lackluster and certainly I do not see how this could have ended up as ‘used’, seeing as no one that is listing it as used is, well, a real person.
So I shot off an email to one of the sellers and I’m now curious. How do they acquire their copies? And if this is part of the Amazon agreement, okay – that is fine, except I’d like to see the mechanics of it. I know for a fact that I retain my copyright via CreateSpace, but at the worst, I may consider shopping for an agent after Book 2 and selling the rights to a major publishing house. I would like to have my book not carried by scammers.
Third-party sellers I can live with. Just tell me the how.
K.G.
