Amazon corrected the error in my name listing, so now it properly R. Purdy. I thought they put in the correction quite promptly. The cover image is also showing up and now Amazon is also offering a 20% discount on The Stuttering Bard of York so you can order it for $11.20.

The error in my listing wasn’t Amazon’s fault. I discovered that the information in my printer’s digital catalog had the erroneous comma so Amazon had picked it up from them. I contacted the printer to correct the digital catalog error and I learned from them that their system had been adding commas to a number of names, so the problem was on their end.

I am also in the process of signing up for Amazon’s Search Inside The Book program. If all goes well it will be at least a couple of weeks before searching inside The Stuttering Bard of York will become available on Amazon.

Finally, I’ve seen a ranking surge on Amazon. As of this morning The Stuttering Bard of York is up to rank 188,983. A week ago it I was running somewhere over 1,000,000. This might make someone think I’ve sold a lot of copies. This isn’t the case. Not sure how Amazon calculates ranking, but I’ve only sold a few copies. It’s fun to say, “Wooohooo! I’m ranked 188,983–that means only 188,982 books are selling better than mine!” But in truth it makes me realize that any book ranked higher than the lower thousands probably isn’t selling much at all.