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Thank you, Seabrass.

I have one problem with your analysis. The self-publisher may have written a fantastic book, but no one knows about it as the author lacks the money and knowledge to advertise. (I know I'm preaching to the choir here.) If Joe Blow in Topeka, Kansas makes the most fantastic widget ever, one that's I've been searching decades for and will make my life worthwhile, I'm still not gonna buy it if I've never heard of it.

Publishers must know this, right?

So, I ask again, why does a self-published work become a no-go for agents and traditional publishers?

I don't want to believe that it's because these two form of publishing are, essentially, competitors. If you worked for Coke, you're never gonna get hired by Pepsi, even if Pepsi's job is 10x money and fame. Pepsi doubts your loyalty to its cause, or wants to punish you for working for the enemy. I hope that's not true.

Thanks, Vern.

Happy Father's Day --Star Wars style!

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Janet,

I have have misstated, or I didn't understand what my friend was saying.

In Amazon, algorithms are everything.  Who is buying what, from where they live, and from what lists Amazon secretly puts them into. There is machinery at work in an Amazon link that is the equivalent of the old man behind the curtain pulling a hundred levers.

If the link you provide people to promote your book has YOUR codes to YOUR algorithms (the for mentioned "blahblah blah above) then they system gets confused and may not know who visited that page; you or someone else. It doesn't mean you will be charged if they buy a book, but for purposes of algorithms, the information is conflicted and may result in a review written by that person being deleted.

Or at least the data (algorithms) collected to evaluate your book page being all messed up and you not getting the credit you need to move up the Amazon ladder.

TLDR: Amazon algorithms own you.

Here is the "Don't use" link:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MZ1LJDC/re … amp;sr=1-2

But I am now having doubts this is an issue. 

If I were to use an Amazon link to promote my book that had my ref number, and someone used that link, how would the "send it to my Kindle" work for them if the system thought it was me?

Glad to see so many like my idea! I'd love to read what people come up with.

I'll take you seriously.

Meh. A bit restrictive.  It might be funny if I were to put Marry Poppins and Ellen Ripley (from Alien films) in a closed room with a murder, but I think after reading a few stories like that, it would get repetitive. The same "how the hell did we get here/who did it?" format over and over.

However, Ripley has just set the Nostromo's engines to blow. All her crew is dead. She is making her way to the escape shuttle...and the alien becomes Marry Poppins, singing and dancing in the halls while steam blows and alarms blare. The hard part there would be writing that with a straight face.

Thank you!

Oooook.  Panic is more or less over.

Without understanding what I was doing, I selected the Expanded Distribution CS has to offer.  That jacked the price waaay up.

I lose a lot in royalties, but I would rather sell 1000 books (print copy) at $2 royalty than 50 (or zero) at $7. 

Word count is 151,217. 

dagnee, that is my smaller book.  I split the book into two parts. 

Book two comes in at 110,161