The Prog Rock Trivia Book

Hi Gerard,

I am just the author and self-publisher rather than someone listed as a third party seller on Amazon. Although I am from Canada, I published my book via the US self-publishing Kindle website (Kindle Direct Publishing) via Amazon since there isn't a Canadian version of the self-publishing website. The site I went to is: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200735480 I was able to classify the book as I wished to, rather than having Amazon classify it for me. I was able to make most publishing decisions of my own in terms of content, book size/page dimensions, book price etc. I assumed that was the case for anyone that used Kindle Direct Publishing, but maybe the different countries have different self-publishing websites on Amazon? It's difficult to say because I have only use the American website since Amazon ca doesn't have the self-publishing Kindle site of its own.

Other than the cover of my book (which is a photo I took at a Magma concert in Toronto about 5 years ago), my book is entirely in black and white so I don't have any experience with respect to colour publishing that I can share. I am assuming that publishing the book in colour would cause the price of the book to go up considerably vs. black and white - Amazon KDP allows you to set the price, but there are limits for print versions since they will insist on a minimum price to offset their printing costs, so you can't go any lower than this price (I think there is also a maximum price they cap the E-book versions at, for what reason I do not know).

As for contacting the publishing wing of Amazon (i.e. Kindle Direct Publishing - "KDP"), I have been able to do that on two occasions. I got the impression that KDP was a different company - perhaps a subsidiary of Amazon rather than Amazon itself. One of the times I called was to inquire/complain about amazon.com reducing the price of one of my other books (on Doctor Who, not prog rock) which I had not asked them to do. They told me that this was not KDP's decision but Amazon - they assured me that I would still get my full royalty if someone bought it at the much-lowered price. But I did at least reach someone. The contact information is in the link that I provided above - you have to click on "Contact us" and then go from there, there isn't a phone number that I can find, I believe if you press the "Call me" button they end up calling you. However, I am not sure if it works the same way through whatever version of Amazon that you went through. Anyway, hopefully this helps!

Cheers! If you have bought it, thank you very much!

Also, that's interesting information about how Amazon publishing works. This book has picked up a flurry of sales in the past week - I'm not entirely sure why, I thought maybe it was being discussed here or something, but I guess I am not complaining.  I guess Amazon has got the word out somehow.

Amazon Canada are a bigger punch of dickheads than all the other Amazon combined. They're more expensive in their postal envoys, sell you second hand for new stuff and refuse to refund. And then they withdraw reviews that denounce their mideeds.

Hope Putin bombs the f**k of those crooks. 

JD wrote: 1 - That would be Lars Ulrich

Sour grapes after losing out for the Grammy's best metal album.

2- Jamie Muir - by the time they went to Germany's Beat Club broadcast , he still wasn't used to wearing something else than furs.