Random: Thinking Out Loud
So some of my e-books published on Amazon have had their category changed by either an amazon bot or employee. I have no idea which.
What I do know is that books that were getting a few sales along pretty much tank after amazon moves them to a category that does not fit with the cover, blurb, or the first text the potential reader might see from look inside.
Erotic Western: Saving The Town does contain bisexual content, but it is a western. Amazon moved the ebook to:
#4594 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender eBooks > Erotica > Bisexual
#4681 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Erotica > LGBT > Bisexual
#81348 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Erotica
I don’t have a problem with that change in particular, but under Erotica it does still belong under Western. When it was moved out of Western the sales & rankings greatly fell.
The e-book Billy Bingo: Sexual Blackmail was moved to:
#10510 in Books > Gay & Lesbian > Literature & Fiction > Erotica > Lesbian
#12392 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender eBooks > Erotica > Lesbian
#16146 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender eBooks > Erotica > Gay
I don’t really remember where it was originally. The cover obviously does not fit with Lesbian. It actually belongs under bisexual and with keyword supernatural.
There again it did not sell great but it did sell a few copies along before the change.
The category for the Billy Bingo: The Videotape Murder also has been moved so that the cover totally does not does not work for that genre but it sold so badly the change didn’t really matter. Update: Since writing this I unpublished Billy Bingo: The Videotape Murder. At some point it will be republished but with changes to fit within the Erotic Domination of Planet Earth Series.
So the question I am asking myself now is, is the ranking of the e-books so bad that it is pointless to try to correct the category or change the cover to fit the category. And if I change the cover to fit the category will Amazon just move it to a different category so the cover will still not work.
I don’t know. I don’t even know how much work / sales it would take to move the e-books up in ranking so they might be seen in categories where Amazon has moved them.
I am actually thinking I might need to unpublish & republish as a 2nd Edition with changes. I hate to do that though. And I am not even sure it would benefit me.
Just thinking out loud.