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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
Almost all retailers close uploads around Christmas. Kobo closed uploads on the 19th. Apple closes them as well (I don't know the date). Google has been closed to any new authors even joining their network/retail stores for almost 2 years. Those are just the ones I know about. Kobo has had a notice up for at least a month so that authors can plan, but it is not new. It has always been the case with several retailers for a few years.
The retailers do this because many support people take time off for the holidays so they ask us authors to plan ahead.
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The silly thing is the book was available at Amazon. The author doesn't upload early, she always waits until the book is ready for release so Amazon was still open. It's just I'm trying to steer the authors I buy from to include Kobo but then something like this happens so authors turn around and say only Amazon matters. It seems very shortsighted to me.