At me, not towards anyone else, to clarify.
Though it is uncertain as to exactly how enthusiastic they are about enforcement of this issue, Amazon has officially pulled my book for being priced lower elsewhere (as in free). I know there are more than a couple of forum lurkers around who have the free at Smashwords, priced at Amazon (because they don't offer free, of course), so I'd recommend changing that up as soon as possible lest you wind up losing that particular nicety.
I'm sure I can get the book back up, and it's quite important to me to do so. However, due to the distribution deal, I will unfortunately have to wait for an absurdity of time before the pricing gets updated everywhere else, followed by what I'm sure will be a long delay on the part of Amazon in getting it put back up. If anyone has particular suggestions as to how to facilitate this process, I'd be more than delighted to hear it.
Of course the omnipresent possibility is to say, "Screw Amazon," but that's pretty much a terrible idea, as much as I hate to say. They're gigantic and unwieldly, and they care very little for their self-pubbed partners (I didn't get any message about why they pulled it; they just did and let me scramble to figure it out), but sales potential is too high to disregard. Including the brief times it was listed free and UK store sales, I probably had close 13,500 downloads, which entirely crushes 11 months of Smashwords availability. I can't really disregard that.
The saddest thing: it probably won't be on Amazon for the Christmas season, when everybody will be buying up Kindles and books.
