“When will your book be available on Amazon?”
It’s been over three months and it’s been an absolute nightmare getting distribution beyond Lulu.com. I’m here with a small update regarding the situation about the paperback version of my book being on Amazon.
Why Isn’t It On Amazon Yet?
In order for you guys to understand the really long wait, I need to explain how the distribution process works. So, my book is originally hosted and created with Lulu, who then offer a service that can allow my book to be listed with other retailers including Amazon. When I finished my book, I had to get a print copy to approve of before I could submit it through the distribution process. Lulu then sent copies of my book to all of the distributors and they had to approve the book against their standards. This took about four to six weeks. Unfortunately, my book got rejected the first time as I had too many blank pages. This meant that I had to go through the whole process again.
Now the reason for the longer delay isn’t actually my fault this time – I’m happy to say! I got in touch with Lulu to find out when my book would be live – they got in touch with Amazon on my behalf and found that there was a problem with the ingestion process (the part where they take all the book’s information and populate it for a listing). My book has been resubmitted and I will be checking it every couple of days to see the progress.
What Happens Now?
I know that there are lots of you who have been waiting for it to appear on Amazon; I am so so sorry that you’ve had to wait so long. It’s been an incredibly frustrating couple of weeks but I’m hopeful now that the wait won’t be too much longer. If you can’t wait, you can purchase the eBook on Amazon here.*
Of course as soon as I know that it’s live on Amazon, I will let you guys know. If you want to know the news before the public, you can become a Patreon of mine for as little as $1 a month. You’ll be directly helping me fund my self-publishing career and get some awesome rewards in return.
Fingers crossed that the next update will be the news that Ascension’s paperback is on Amazon!
