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Post by jackallanternbooks on Feb 17, 2019 16:44:28 GMT
Just a heads up and reminder... if you were once wide and enter KU, make sure you check and double check those wide stores, especially if you distributed through kobo. I was doing a sweep of stores and thought I was nearly set to enter a series into KU... even the pesky FNAC was speedy and had removed my books. Except I happened across complete versions of this entire series that should have been unpublished well over 2 years ago-- in 5 different stores! Not just a title here and there that got missed, but ALL of them. The entire outdated version of the series. I had unpublished and rebranded and republished from scratch. But had NO idea these older versions were still showing available as I'd unpublished them such a long time ago. Anyway, if you need it, this is the kobo link to check all their stores: kobowritinglife.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001058408-Where-else-can-Kobo-distribute-my-eBooks-
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Feb 18, 2019 1:27:26 GMT
Thanks for the reminder, and the link! I distribute through D2D to Kobo and Kobo Plus, so I guess my books are sent to all of those other stores, too. That's quite a lot. And some of them take forever to take your stuff down. But I imagine for the really small outfits they may have super loooong to-do lists that never end, so I can see books getting lost. Being wide isn't instant like Amazon.
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Post by jackallanternbooks on Feb 18, 2019 14:19:36 GMT
It just really shocked me to find titles that I'd removed over two years ago still live on their sites... and kind of a sad reminder of how little I sell in those kobo markets for that to go unnoticed or reported for so long, because if a readers had actually tried to get the book they wouldn't have been able to.
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Post by davidvandyke on Feb 18, 2019 18:28:34 GMT
This is good info. I'm not pulling anything wide, so it doesn't apply to me so much, but it's interesting.
And you mentions Kobo Plus--I'm actually making more than $20 a month lately, so it's not been totally worthless--I wonder if they will expand it?
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