Nathan Bransford - The Forums

The first one caught me by surprise – Your Amazon rating has nothing to do with sales. Really? Reading it was an inspiration.

Amazon reviews carry weight.

CreateSpace uses Ingram's services – I didn't even know anything about Ingram. And it IS a service you have to pay for!

Claim your book via Author Central – this I knew about!

A very good article @ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brooke-wa ... 44386.html

Ingram is a print distribution company, the U.S. print distribution industry leader, as a matter of fact. Ingram deals in volume sales to brick-and-mortar bookstore middleman distributors, to library markets, and institutional outlets, like university bookstores. However, brick-and-mortar bookstore culture believes Amazon and online booksellers generally are the enemy of their businesses. So any product with a CreateSpace, for example, or similar ISBN identifier, will be summarily ignored by brick-and-mortar bookstores.

Worth note also that Ingram executives founded Amazon and CreateSpace and Xlibris.

Amazon reviews only carry weight with me if they realize a product's artistic and dramatic appeals, actually, negative reviews carry more weight with me than vanity reviews: astroturf, artificial sod laid by individuals interested in a product's successful marketing and oblivious to the product's appeals.

Amazon's rating algorithms I've known have little bearing on popular appeal metrics, rather on scaled number of appearances a product has placement for; how popular a product is based upon a seller's demonstrated commitment and expense expended that enhances Amazon's revenue stream, actually.

How does this apply to audiobooks?