Amazon cracking down on independent publishers -- us too.

[WingedZephyr]

I still think advertising your books on popular furry sites (if possible) is your best bet. You could do searches for furry art or furry fiction sites and stuff like that and probably find some that offer the ad space. Have you tried working with any other online book sellers similar to Amazon? While they may not be as popular, it might still help with sales.

[Osfer]

We're experimenting with that kind of advertising this month, in fact. You may see the ads here and there

The performance in terms of clickthroughs is quite modest, we furries are such an internet-savvy bunch that our optical cortex filters out most ads we see on webpages -- but it's a start.

We're put a few feelers out, but the general consensus is that at this point we're not big enough to be a proper affiliate or partner, and at the same time, there aren't any other companies out there that offer the same kind of third-party services that Amazon offered.

Our eyes and ears are open

[[D.E.M] zetsumei]

they probably dont even know what the book is about, its all about how much a book sells, and if it doest sell good, they take it off the shelves to reduce costs of ordering the book at the publisher, very simple, and it has nothing to do with furries, its just bussiness,

the fact that the book was anthro, was probably just a coincidence (this was only directed at the persons who actually thought it had something to do with the fandom)

[Osfer]

It's nothing against furries, but it *is* against smaller publishers. The programs Amazon.com runs actually doesn't cost them anything. Instead of buying copies from the publisher, this program requires the publisher to send Amazon the copies they ask for free of charge. Only when Amazon sells a copy, is the publisher paid for it.

That's what made this development so peculiar; this program's an insanely good deal for Amazon.com, so shutting it down makes very little sense, unless they're actively trying to stifle the developing small-press market.

[¿ Jesse Pawman ?]

I'm not an expert in advertising but I would like to say something.


If I ran your company, I probably wouldn't put it into mainstream quite yet, however, slowly build up to it. Try getting in contact with another selling site that might be able to sell your products, or possibly start your own.

[[D.E.M] zetsumei]

I'm not an expert in advertising but I would like to say something.


If I ran your company, I probably wouldn't put it into mainstream quite yet, however, slowly build up to it. Try getting in contact with another selling site that might be able to sell your products, or possibly start your own.

i agree, you could also try to find a random local bookstore, or a library or something