One less promotional trick with publishing Kindle Books.

Things change, time changes everything, and Kindle doesn’t want us to use a simple trick that I’ve been taught and have taught you. It’s not a real big deal, but because I like to be able to promote my web address (www.terscott.com) on everything (and you should too), I was deflated just a bit to see that two of my books were in the “draft” mode until I removed the site address. Let me explain.

I learned my lesson in the past about not missing email communication from Kindle. So, I did a search in my email box (I have to do searches now because I get so much email) using the search term “kindle publishing” and found out why two of my books are still in the “draft” mode:

Hello,

Thank you for submitting the following book(s) for publishing to the Kindle Store. During our review, we found one or more issues with your submission that requires your attention before we can move forward.

Marketing Bootcamp for Small Business by www.terscott.com, Terry  Ter  Scott (AUTHOR) (ID:3503972) - Please remove the reference to a website in the author field.

Due to this issue, your book(s) have been moved into an editable status. Please review your book(s) for accuracy and make any necessary corrections by going to the Actions menu and clicking on “edit book details”. Once you have made the corrections, please resubmit the book(s) for publishing by clicking the “Save & Publish” button under Step 8 (Kindle Book Lending). Upon publishing, we will review the files and provide a status update shortly thereafter.

If the message above indicates that a different book has been submitted, you are required to submit the new content as a new book. To do so, choose “Add a new title” from your Account Bookshelf. If you would like to remove an existing book from sale, use the Actions button and choose “Unpublish”.

To contact us about a KDP issue, please visit: 

(kindle address)


Thank you,

Kindle Direct Publishing

So here is what I had:

 

Here is how I had to change it:

 

And now it gets updated:

 

Moral of the story, don't make Kindle mad and keep your books up and selling. Also, keep abreast of these things by signing up as a follower by email. I don't collect your email that way, you will just get these posts automatically in your email box when I do them.

Things are always changing and so it is with Kindle. In my classes I have taught that you can use your web address in this way. Per this message, this is no longer the case.

If you have any comments or questions, always feel free to leave them after any of my posts.

Make it a great day!

Ter

 

PS. I now offer Kindle Coaching via the web on a one on one basis. Check it out at: www.terscott.com/kindlecoach.