{"id":500,"date":"2013-04-28T17:34:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T17:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/?p=500"},"modified":"2013-04-28T17:34:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T17:34:23","slug":"how-do-you-shop-for-books-amazo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/how-do-you-shop-for-books-amazo\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Shop for Books? The Amazon Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1367113926147_9137\">One of the things I love about being part of Romance Writers of America is having access to opportunites\u00a0I would never have otherwise., like have my opinion heard by the biggest book seller in the world, Amazon. Last week\u00a0I had the pleasure of joining other local authors Gina Robinson, Ashlyn\u00a0Mathews, Deborah Schneider and Heather Greye\u00a0to meet with representatives from Amazon and Montlake\u00a0Publishing who wanted to know how they can make the shopping experience better at the Amazon store.<\/div>\n<div>Since writers are readers too, we had lots of ideas to streamline and enrich the book shopping experience.\u00a0Many of us spoke about how we love to browse the shelves at the bookstore and the power of a good cover. Gina spoke of how an interesting cover or off-hand recommendation may lead her to a new author or series she might not have noticed otherwise. Heather asked for a way to better filter through the millions of titles to be specific to a reader&#8217;s taste while allowing for discover-ability of a new author, or a new to the reader-author.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1367113926147_9140\">Amazon asked if readers would enjoy an &#8220;Editor&#8217;s Recommendation&#8221; list. I think we all agreed recommendations and reviews are very hit or miss, and are only as reliable as the person who gives them. But hand-selling is just as important of a marketing tool online as it is in the brick and mortar stores. Personalbilty\u00a0and genuineness is the way to connect to a reader. If Amazon was\u00a0to post employee recommendations, I would be more interested in reading what the person in accounting was reading and not someone in acquisitions, especially if they&#8217;re suggesting books from other publishers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1367113926147_9145\">When Amazon pitched an idea of a subscription option for readers, which sounded a lot like the KDP\u00a0Select program, my red\u00a0flag alarm waved at hurricane urgency.\u00a0Let&#8217;s say for $15 you can download as many books as you want in a month. If you download 50 books, how much of that $15 goes to the author? That&#8217;s right. Pretty much nothing. That same question was posed\u00a0to\u00a0Amazon and\u00a0none of them had any clue. In fact, it appeared they hadn&#8217;t even thought about how the author would be affected. Frightening.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>By the end of the night,\u00a0the general consensus was we as readers want the bookstore experience with the speed and ease of the internet. It will be exciting to see if any of our suggestions are put into action. Time will tell.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I love about being part of Romance Writers of America is having access to opportunites\u00a0I would never have otherwise., like have my opinion heard by the biggest book seller in the world, Amazon. 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