Dragon Queen: Avery Rome Book Three Live...

[RyanM]

I would assume there are networks of people that would acquire books via KU, goto end and then return the book just so they can all claim higher sales. Such a scam would be easy to detect. One could hope that Amazon would have dire consequences for people acting in such a manner.

[David]

Agreed, but there is nothing shady about a reader getting a book on KU, reading it, and then buying it later on in a week or month. After all, amazon gets my ten bucks, plus a piece of the outright purchase.

If they didn't want legitimate double dips, all the books I read in KU wouldn't show up in recommendations.

That's my point, don't cheat the system, just use it.

[PS Power]

So, the book seems to be up and alive! Yay!

[Glenn Cover]

I find it interesting that the release date was the 26th, but not available until the 29th.

[PS Power]

Glenn: It was put up on the 27th. (Zon almost always puts that date back a day. I do not know why, but it is virtually 100% of the time they do that.)

Then I put up that statement here, just to have something to say. So, it was available before that. (What, I have to come up with salient and useful comments ALL the time?)

I'm just trying to put aside this particular incident as a sign of conspiracy or failure on anyone's part. It wasn't except for me, not being more clever when I posted on the 29th. I wasn't trying to be misleading. I'll attempt not to be that boring in the future.

[David]

It's an amazon thing.

No conspiracy, just a weird system that's consistent for every author. When I check for new KU books in sci-fi-fi/fantasy, I always have to lag back a day or two behind on publication date, so I don't miss most of them. Today's releases will consistently only show pre-published books in the system.

[PS Power]

It really does take four or five days to really hit the system for Amazon.

I think that's just because they're so large.