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Maria Schneider
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My author page no longer shows up even when you select "Books" and Maria Schneider as the search. Someone else's author page does. This is new, but it's been this way for months. Their search function has changed. When I asked about getting my author page/link back in the search list I was told it was not something they would even discuss. Again, I'm not blaming anyone or angry, but it changed. I used to be more prominent (whether due to sales or other changes made to the search engines). My results were more mixed in with the jazz artist. My author page used to show up in there. Perhaps the change is just that another Maria Schneider showed up on the scene (although her book is out of print so I think she's been around for a while). These are little things that indicate the possibility that Amazon is not pushing ebooks (or indies?) as much/frequently as they used to. But it's anecdotal/clue not irrefutable proof. As another example, when I used to search on my name, Karen Cantwell's books showed up. Those no longer show up (I'm not sure why the DID in the past). I think Amazon's search engine has been tweaked. For whatever reason. |
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I appreciate the insight into the situation, by the way. Didn't mean to suggest we were necessarily "at odds." You just happened to be the last person to mention the "Amazon isn't 'on your side'" thing. I find the motive aspect to be largely irrelevant when it comes to sellers or buyers—a meaningless distinction. People aren't going to stick with them for long if Amazon's business goals suddenly started resulting in customers having to jump through more hoops (than they would somewhere else), or having to spend more money (than they would somewhere else) to utilize their services. So for all practical purposes, many readers/consumers and Amazon ARE currently on the same side. Even if it's only a temporary, somewhat incidental alliance of convenience. |
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Maria Schneider
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I leave the initial off the covers for space reasons. I'm the same person though. Really, I am! I could try changing the profile/author page and whatnot, but I don't know if that would help. Amazon claims that the other author has more visits than my page (even though she has one book and it isn't even an English version--thanks for that ego boost Ammie. ![]() It's not a huge deal. It's just something I noticed. I notice it on searches for titles as well. The algorithm is constantly changing and there could be a lot of reasons for it. |
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The old way was that the way the title and the author was written on the title page in the book was how it was cataloged. Regardless of how it was written on the cover. But nowadays I assume that not all books have a title page. For me that have a register of read books it is very annoying when the authors spelling is not consistent. |
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I fear you may be correct and I cannot blame all of this on Amazon. I was actually only trying to make the point that what they showed in a common search a year ago was/is not the same as what they show now and their rules have changed. Their search engine was "Friendlier" to some of my titles (misspelled or partial) and friendlier to variations of my name than it is today. |
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And, as others have mentioned here: If the authors I love can't earn a decent wage, they may stop publishing books. I definitively won't claim that I always research the ethics of the companies I buy from. Life's too short, and most of the big companies act badly in some ways. Also, if the price difference is too big, I'll probably fall for the temptation to save money rather than buying from the most ethical company. But if big companies misbehave, that's ultimately going to be my problem. Yours too. We share this planet, others' behaviour affects us all. |
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I should perhaps have said more clearly that I was talking generally about the view that "the behaviour of the businesses I give my money to isn't my problem" (paraphrased, not quoting any poster), not specifically about KU.
The only thing I know about the business side of KU is Scalzi's blog post. Based on that, "unethical" may be too strong a word. But it looks like it's bad for many authors because of the "sharing a fixed pool of money" model, and bad for readers because it encourages authors to split up books into lots of small parts, which makes for more annoying reading. I avoid Amazon as much as possible because I don't think it's in my interest that any single actor in the book market is as powerful as Amazon is, and also because I've read some horrifying stuff about working conditions for Amazon's employees. ![]() |
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There are a lot of reasons to care what companies do and why they do it. In addition to the ethical concerns (and I very much do care about the ethics of a company) there are practical considerations. If you understand what a company is trying to accomplish, you can decide if that is in your long term best interest or not. |
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