Re: Kindle Store sales report software glitch?

Thanks, Liz. Yes, I was aware that Amazon bought Mobipocket along with BookSurge 
about three years ago.,  Actually, I think the way it works is that Mobipocket titles 
continue to reside on Mobipocket and are picked up by Amazon if the publisher as signed 
a Kindle edition distribution agreement.  When I upload new titles to Mobipocket they are 
(eventually) picked up by the Kindle Store, and when I inactivate titles on Mobipocket 
eBookBase they're (eventually) removed from the Kindle Store.

I know that Kindle edition sales aren't reported in eBookBase, but I haven't checked to see 
if a Kindle edition sale elevates that title on Mobipocket.com's genre best-selling lists.

John

--- In [email protected], Elizabeth Burton <EBurton@...> wrote:
>
> John,
> 
> There are two ways for books to be listed in the Kindle bookstore.  
> Initially, Amazon selected titles from Mobipocket (which, as I'm sure  
> you know, they own) and converted them to Kindle format to help them  
> start off with a whole bunch of titles available when the reader came  
> out. This was a marketing ploy--Sony has a very limited number of  
> titles (comparatively) for their reader; Amazon launched Kindle with  
> more than three times as many.
> 
> However, it's also possible to open an actual account and submit  
> titles ONLY to Kindle. If you do that, however, the Mobi-based sales  
> won't show up in it, only the sales of the titles you supply through  
> that account. I haven't figured out yet whether Mobi/Kindle sales show  
> up as Mobi sales, and probably won't because I just don't have that  
> kind of time.
> 
> Liz
> 
> 
> Elizabeth Burton, Executive Editor
> Zumaya Publications LLC
> Opening Doors to the Creative Mind
> http://www.zumayapublications.com
>




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