It's been an interesting few days.

I knew I should upload the book to Smashwords in advance so it could filter through to the other sellers like Barnes & Noble and iTunes.

The one I'm still waiting for is Kobo.  I've also found myself stuck in limbo listing my book with Google's Play.

One thing I did find very hard was getting the price point I desired on my listings on Amazon; $4.99 and £2.99.  I've got the UK price sorted but still not sure on the US one I need to double check it.

I am slowly falling in love with georiot.com and here's why; if you are an author you NEED to read this.

I am based in Kent in England.  So many times someone has given me a link to their book or posted a link for their book on Twitter and even Facebook and it takes me to Amazon.com and the US pricing.

I see something like this:


Now I'm lazy I'm not going to go to the green box and click on it and get to the UK price, especially not on my mobile.  That's a loss of a potential sale.

What georiot.com does is give me a single link that will take the buyer to the correct geographical site for their location.   In my case I'd get to the listing of George And The Dragon on Amazon.co.uk

The second hugely important thing it does is allow me to use my Affiliate links so I get that extra affiliate boost.

Thirdly I've been able to create separate links I can use in different places like the new buttons on this blog.  This allows me to see where the click traffic is coming from.

So, for example, if I decide to take George and the Dragon on a blog tour I'll make specific links for the tour so I can see how effective it was compared to what it might have cost me.

Rant over.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Phil