I check my rankings at Amazon every Saturday morning. It looks like the individual pages have been reformatted, at least regarding books in print. Rankings have either been eliminated or have yet to be included. Although the ranking can be embarrassing, given that nine million books are listed, it was the only way to tell if a copy had sold. Although I trust my publishers to do the right thing in terms of royalties, I wouldn’t be surprised if some writers never see a check because of this. I wonder if Amazon has done it because a pathetic ranking might deter a customer from buying a book that is out of the mainstream. So far, the Kindle rankings remain, but I suspect they too will be eliminated. I was pleased to find that at least one person bought the short story, The Bat, I had published on Kindle through All Things That Matter Press. My thanks.
Well, I got summoned. I will be on jury duty 7/29.
The Pittsburgh Pirates have not had a winning season since 1992, when they won the NL East. They currently have the best record in baseball, 49-30. The past two seasons they seemed assured of breaking that long losing streak only to suffer a late season collapse. They couldn’t blow it again, could they?
I had an interesting, at least to me, dream last night. I was selling the NY Post, laid out the copies and walked away. When I returned people told me that my money had been blown away by the wind. I found a few bills but wound up operating at a loss. I suppose the dream was illustrating the insanity of the floating book shop, although I at least make a small profit with it and occasionally sell one of my own books. Today's session tended toward the insane side. Hardly anyone visited. My thanks to the woman who purchased three thrillers.
Vic's 4th Novel: http://tinyurl.com/bszwlxh
Vic's 3rd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/7e9jty3
Vic's Website: http://members.tripod.com/vic_fortezza/Literature/
Vic's Short Story Collection (Print or Kindle): http://www.tiny.cc/Oycgb
Vic's 2nd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/6b86st6
Vic's 1st Novel: http://tiny.cc/94t5h
Vic's Screenplay on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3
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