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Originally Posted by HarryT
A contract has to be a two-way street. If Amazon are doing their bit in advertising your book for you, they have to have a reasonable expectation that people will buy the book from them and not elsewhere more cheaply. I don't think you have much cause for complaint that Amazon have stopped selling the book.
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Please don't misunderstand, this was not intended to be a complaint on my part as much as a warning to other people who were in the same situation as myself: Naomi Kramer, Wesley Allison (though I don't see him lurking here often), David Daglish, and so on. There are a *lot* of people who offer their books on Amazon while putting them elsewhere for free. I suspect it becomes all a matter of the web crawler catching it, and apparently it's not doing that great of a job.
To Luke:
Yes, I have heard of someone getting their book not pulled but heavily discounted. They had the 70% royalty rate on a $6-7 book which Barnes and Noble discounted. Amazon's web-crawler found it and ended up pricing the book at $2.50 to undercut the competition, which put the person back to the 30% royalty bracket. This was through the Smashwords distribution deal, so the person couldn't do anything to speed along the change; he eventually decided to stop selling through Smashwords all together, and it ended up taking something like 4 weeks for the book to disappear off of partner sites.
And...
Yes, I can see Haven's back up, as well. It's very confusing to me, as it was gone from UK for near to 2 weeks and the US for one. Nothing has changed from the terms of the email they sent me; the offending cheaper site wasn't listed as simultaneously iBooks, Kobo, Sony, and B&N; it was just B&N. Of course, the price change hasn't been reflected anywhere, and the book is listed as "Draft" in my DTP Bookshelf.
Odd.