When twitter takes forever to load the box for you to post a tweet, no that is not the fault of your isp being extra slow and it is not all of twitter having a problem, it is twitter fucking with you because they don’t like you or your tweets. I just thought you should know that.
Category: Thinking Out Loud
How Far Back Can You Remember??
New study validates people who say they can remember some things back to when they were 2 or 3 years of age.
Team led by Simona Ghetti at University of California, Davis did study to suggest childhood memories begin from age of two.
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About Youtube
I have unlisted all of my videos from the mightymuddychuck channel. If you were subscribed there understand that I do appreciate it but I felt it was time to unlist the videos from youtube. I have done it before and then changed my mind but I am pretty sure I am going to stick to it this time.
They allow unlisted videos to be hosted there and I feel that is the better option for me. The analytic of the channel is such that making videos public there, the videos are more likely to attract hate than people who either understand or appreciate what I am saying.
I am 60 years of age. I am Southern. I am not consistently conservative or liberal. I don’t confine my topics to this or that. So I understand some of the real hate but of course some of it is just bots trying to lift certain channels while they push other channels like mine down.
Some people try to push through the hate with what fans they can garner as they remind themselves that “youtube is the second largest search engine” after google itself. I think that is somewhat misleading. And as youtube has brought in leftist hate groups with the keys to youtube’s own bots to damage channels it all becomes even more problematic to having videos listed on youtube.
I think some of the videos might serve a purpose here but I realize some of them do have a “cringe” factor that I can’t blame on anyone but myself. 🙂 That just is what it is.
But the bottom line is I will never be able to monetize any of the videos on youtube. To the degree users might believe the videos have some value to them, ads or book sales here might at least profit me some money.
Much thanks.
Chuck
Thinking Out Loud – From Around Internet 2/10/2017
Reckitt finalizes deal to buy Mead Johnson for $16.6 billion
Opinion: A bad company buying a company is never a good thing for the over all economy. Corporate mergers continue to devastate the world economy. [no link]
Fifty Shades Darker gets a lot of bad reviews. To whether that in itself is hurting it at the box office or movie goers themselves are choosing other movies to watch instead is hard to say. Is erotica now a lot less fashionable than it was if it bills itself as such or readers/viewers suggest it as such? Sexy probably still sells but mainly if it bills itself or is recognized as some other genre than erotica. [no link]
Zynga, provider of social game services, continues to struggle. The company’s net loss narrowed to $35.4 million, or 4 cents per share, from $51.2 million, or 6 cents per share, a year earlier. [no link]
General Motors sales in China fell 24% as the Chinese Government gave incentives to people to buy smaller, more fuel efficient cars. Still, sales of GM’s Cadillac shined China. GM has a factory in Shanghai that builds 7 different models of the Cadillac on the same assembly line. [no link]
KDP, Kindle Publishing & Amazon Changes Category
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.