19 Feb 2012, Posted by caburkes in Amazon, No Comments. Tagged Amazon, Gee Willikers, UK, US
Important Details: Your Amazon Profile in Other Countries!
****Updated Below*****
First, I found this incredible realization over here: The forum for Kindle Publishers:
http://forums.kindledirectpublishing.com/kdpforums/thread.jspa?threadID=11288&start=15&tstart=0
Next, when I read it, I was like … WTF??? You see, Amazon has their website, and you are likely getting sales from, other countries (UK, FR, DE, ES, IT) in addition to US.
What Amazon DOESN’T tell you is your profile is over there too … and all the work you put into the US side (The author details, photo and such) ARE NOT carried over.
So, checking it out … sho’ nuff (Latin, ‘show’nough’, meaning “Yes, indeed”, Gee Willikers or “As I suspected“) I had a practically blank profile.
Oh wait … you didn’t know you were getting sales from other countries?
In your KDP back end, when looking at reports, there is a drop down that says: View Report For… Chose a different country and see where your book was selling. France never gives me any love, but the UK has been treating me like I was Josephine Baker!
Anyway, I’m sure Amazon has a snazzy one click way to access these other sites to change them, but i don’t know how so … allow me to show you ‘Corey’s Bogart-the-scene’ method of getting your other country profiles tweaked:
1) Got to this link: https://authorcentral.amazon.com
It’s your regular Author Central link at Amazon.com (US)
2) Let’s start with the UK:
CHANGE https://authorcentral.amazon.com
to …
https://authorcentral.amazon.co.uk
3) You’ll go thru the same motions you did when you first opened the Amazon.com version (US) and you’ll have to verify your email again. It will ask you which books you have there (as if!!!!) … and presto! You got more internet work to do. (I know, right? Damn … don’t we do enough bio-placing, typing, updating, tweeting, form filling, etc).
But if you love your work, and you want more people to know about where you are and who you are in Germany or Italy … I’d get on it.
For the record, the other sites would be:
https://authorcentral.amazon.de
https://authorcentral.amazon.fr
https://authorcentral.amazon.es
https://authorcentral.amazon.it
OH! Question just popped into my head: Should the work be translated for that country?
Hmmmmmm… I’ll send an email to Amazon and get an answer. Once I get it, I’ll post it here as an update.
Peace and go get yours!
****Updated: Response from Amazon.com*****
Hello Corey,
My name is Chantel from Author Central.
When submitting your information on our International websites through Author Central, the content you submit will be auto translated to meet that websites preferred language.
Our international websites that currently support Author Central are the following:
Japan: https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/
Germany: https://www.amazon.de/gp/help/
France: https://authorcentral.amazon.
The United Kingdom: https://authorcentral.amazon.
I hope this helps, and if you have any more questions or concerns please feel free to contact us again using the link below:
https://authorcentral.amazon.
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