UK Amazon Kindle Forum discussion

Hello all,

I have closed the group store for now.

I would like to completely revamp it soon and when I do I will wipe everything out and start again.


Any other suggestions how we can make the store more useful will be most welcome

Fantasy

Edit - oh yes, Thriller

Some overlap probably.

Are you referring to my grip on life Ignite?

Only you know that! (and the little weed!)
Are you old enough to get the reference?

Horror

Are we back to Simon's life Pat? ;)

I remember little weed. I had reservations about that potting shed.

Hmm....



Sci-fi
Crime
Romance
Adventure
Fantasy
Horror

Too much pot, I think.

Humour?

Good call. We like a bit of that!

What about the books such as Alice Parker's Metamorphosis or Bernard and the Bibble both by "our authors" or books by another of "our authors" Tiffany Towers which categories would they fit in?

Hmm. Children/YA?

Yes a horror section would be nice :-)

How many categories is it reasonable to have?

Humour
Horror
Adult fiction
YA

You missed out history :)

The list looks pretty much all there to me. Will you include non-fiction, like history/biographies etc or will it just be novels? Yep, historical fiction seems to be missing :)

Obviously any one book could go in a number of categories?

Hi Simon, just a quick question – and, yes, and I am a tad embarrassed to ask this– is the Goodreads UK Kindle Group Store a newish thing? I can't remember seeing it before. I know I've not been around lately and when I am around I do seem to get lost a little bit, but old or new, it seems a very good idea - and apart from the great recommendations, maybe my books can be showcased there one day too ;o)

Choose as many categories as is workable for you Simon. Then have the author tell you which one of them they want their book to be slotted into.

Otherwise you'll be having someone like Darren wanting his in the sci-fi/fan/rom/com/travel/withatwistoflemon category.

Marianne wrote: "Hi Simon, just a quick question – and, yes, and I am a tad embarrassed to ask this– is the Goodreads UK Kindle Group Store a newish thing? I can't remember seeing it before. I know I've not been a..."

It's been around for nearly as long as the group has Marianne. The problem is, the group is a victim of its own success and there are now masses of threads to scroll through. I never go more than half way down - I stop at book Recommendations"

The group store link has always been right at the top of the list of discussion threads. :)

Ignite wrote: "Marianne wrote: "Hi Simon, just a quick question – and, yes, and I am a tad embarrassed to ask this– is the Goodreads UK Kindle Group Store a newish thing? I can't remember seeing it before. I kno..."

Yikes!! I can't believe I missed it - I am blushing! I am going to have to pay more attention...

Patti (A Fine Pear) wrote: "The group store link has always been right at the top of the list of discussion threads. :)"

Ok, I am going to hunt this down now because for some reason i can only see the books listed at the bottom of the UK Amazon Kindle Forum page and the "currently reading ones" at the top " but no group store. No store either when I click the discussion threads - at least not as it looks when I follow the link Simon gave at the beginning ...

Well, I put the store together right at the beginning but never really applied any focus to it. I'm still not quite sure what it brings to the party.

As Patti says, my plan was to get authors to post a link to the book on amazon UK (a prerequisite) and tell me what category they want it in.

I'm just not sure why anyone would bother using it to be honest..... except we get a tiny commission every time someone buys through it which I can use to do competitions etc.

Hi Simon, sorry, no explanation needed for me and so sorry if I sounded critical, I didn't mean to. I'm pretty dense around forums and such until I get the hang of them. For what it is worth, the store sounds a great idea and another way to spread the word about our books, and if the forum can get a wee commission all the better... I think I'd use it as soon as I get the hang of finding it ;o)

As to categories, I think Rosen sussed them rather well with her book awards.

http://www.indie-book-bargains.co.uk/...

Patti (A Fine Pear) wrote: "Choose as many categories as is workable for you Simon. Then have the author tell you which one of them they want their book to be slotted into.

Otherwise you'll be having someone like Darren wanting his in the sci-fi/fan/rom/com/travel/withatwistoflemon category. "

What's wrong with that? I can't see why it wasn't on the original list.

Hmm....

I can see I will end up with a lot of categories if I'm not careful!

You told me you were always careful!

Simon (Highwayman) wrote: "Hmm....

I can see I will end up with a lot of categories if I'm not careful!"


Some can be combined -
Crime/Thriller/Adventure and SciFi/Fantasy.
How about the five most popular categories & "other"

How about great, so-so and bleh?

Actually I like great/so-so/blah but it would just open up another can of worms.

Worms? Bleh!

Rosemary wrote: "How about great, so-so and bleh?"

Lol!

*Note to self: must be VERY nice to Rosemary so my books don't get listed under 'so-so' or 'bleh'!!!*

And what a bout a Humour category?

We aren't all serious, you know. Well, not all the time anyway.

Well alright, I know i am, but not all of us.

What is pratchett? Humour, fantasy. Sci fi.

Humify?

Simon (Highwayman) wrote: "What is pratchett? Humour, fantasy. Sci fi."

That category is 'Pratchettesque'

Humphriesque, if you please.

Lol.
How about
Sci-fi
Fantasy
Thriller
Horror
YA/juvenile
Romance
Erotica
Non fiction

Patti (A Fine Pear) wrote: "Humphriesque, if you please."

Does thus mean in a few books time we might be looking at Sir Darren?

I wonder about Y/A
Could authors just mark their book as 'suitable for Y/A' ?
That way we'd do away with a category.
Same with Humour. For example I'd class Will's books as Fantasy, but with Humour.

I agree Jim.
(Be careful with him, people. He won't be used to women agreeing with him!)

In that case I agree as well. Great idea, Jim.

There is a very distinct Y/A category though.

Although I'm not sure any of our authors actually write in it.

Louise-Lesley (Elle) wrote: "There is a very distinct Y/A category though.

Although I'm not sure any of our authors actually write in it."

One of the best definitions of Y/A is 'Is this book you've written one you'd like your mother to read'

I think the problem is that there is 'Young Adult' and there are books that are 'Suitable for Young Adult'
The first category I never read, (I'm not sure we had them back then anyway) and my daughters tended to ignore them, mainly because they worked their way through my books.

There is a difference between Suitable and Y/A - I wouldn't exactly class that as a good definition.