Within your Amazon
Author Central account you can even monitor and track your sales, allowing you to see who bought your book (in terms of demographics) and where they are in location (in terms of geographics).
I never connected
my Author Central account to Facebook, but I did to Twitter (I maybe tweet once every other month) but I disconnected it.
The initial data in my own
Author Central account showed my author sales rank for books:
Finally, get an Amazon
Author Central account.
Here's how: Login to your Amazon
Author Central account (you'll need to create an account if you don't have one yet), and go to the Books tab.
Last month, if you were using Amazon HTML in
your Author Central account, you received this message.
Utilize the Editorial Reviews section of
your Author Central account!
You should keep a record of your sales ranking (or use
your Author Central account) and also check your sales.
If you have a critical question, a snafu of some sort, even wonder if you are in the right category, you are able to go to
your Author Central account, click on the «Connect / Talk» or whatever they call the icon at the moment on your page.
Once your identity is verified, that pen name will now be associated with
your Author Central account.
Set
your Author Central account up at AuthorCentral.Amazon.com.
* Note — you need to have at least one book for sale through Amazon in order to set up
an Author Central account.
Then create
an Author Central account — this opens the portal to talk to a live person within seconds — a feat that all marvel at when it happens with Amazon.
As a published author on Amazon, you already HAVE
an Author Central account, but probably didn't even know it.
Keep reading and you'll easily see why you still need to use
your Author Central account.
We had to sign - up for
an Author Central account with Amazon... to get to print a letter from them to give to the IRS, which corroborated our application to the IRS for a US Tax ID (the one piece of info missing in our attempt to sign - up for an iBookstore iTunes Connect account).
Happy selling, and as always, don't hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any questions about how to set up your Amazon
Author Central account.
I see that you've recently updated the Product Descriptions of your books through
your Author Central account, hence you'll not be able to make any changes through Kindle Direct Publishing account.
Further to your email, I understand that you'd like the product description and Editorial reviews of your kindle books to be removed from
the Author central account.
(Note: I'll be referring to the links on the Home Page, to navigate to different areas of
the Author Central account, but some of these areas are also available via the blue tabs at the top).
One author insider tip: Make sure that you create
an Author Central account on Amazon.
In order to claim a book to your Author Central page using this method, you must log in to
your Author Central account.
After you publish a book on Kindle, you'll go to your Amazon
Author Central account and add your book to the account by clicking «Add more books.»
I do use Bookscan through
my author central account and it's been interesting to see how many books I do sell through bookstores.
However, as Amazon will not allow you to set up
an Author Central account until you actually have a book PUBLISHED with them, it means you might need to go through a month or so of ironing out the «kinks» if this is your first book.
While you're waiting for your account to be activated, go ahead and set up
your Author Central account as well.
I am setting up my Amazon
Author Central account and your post was very helpful.
If you're a published author with a book on Amazon, you need to have
an Author Central Account.
After we have completed the Amazon Exposure Program, we provide you with your Amazon
Author Central account login information.
Any author with a book listed for sale on Amazon can sign up for an Amazon
Author Central account.
(You can see these numbers yourself, even if you don't subscribe to BookScan, by logging in to Amazon Author Central, assuming you've properly claimed authorship of your books through your Amazon
Author Central account.)
Contact Amazon via
your Author Central Account and request access to ads.
When you log into your Amazon
Author Central account, there's a «help» button you can click and email Amazon directly.
If you have books or stories of any kind, regardless of publisher, that are available on Amazon, then I would recommend you go through the exercise of setting up
your Author Central Account and tying in all your available works back to that account.
You have to go through
your Author Central account and call the author central customer service group.
Perfect for displaying on your book directly, on
your Author Central account or book site.
If you don't already have
an Author Central account, you'll need to set that up to create your author page.
Ran to my Amazon
Author Central account and spruced up my Amazon page profile.
As opposed to the other parts of your page, you'll use
your Author Central account to create this section.
This is also done through
your Author Central account.
The first way (which I'm not convinced actually works) doesn't even require you to log in to
your Author Central account.
A strategy that works for series is to add up all the 5 - star or 4 and 5 star reviews and mention them under the «editorial review» section on the page (we access that through
our author central account).
First and foremost, set up your Amazon
Author Central account and claim your book!
Some new features have been added recently so if you haven't updated
your Author Central account lately, now is the time!
Having a blog, and
an Author Central account, are the very least that you should have for a basic marketing plan for your book.
Conclusion To take advantage of these two features, you'll need to open an Amazon
Author Central account, and also an Amazon Associates account.
It looks like if I wanted to get a new
author central account, I'd need a new Amazon account, and that sounds very complicated — they probably wouldn't allow same email of credit card.
If you write under more than three pen names, then you'll need to open
another author central account.
Note: If you do have more than one
author central account, make sure you log out of the secondary one before you log back into your KDP dashboard otherwise it'll look like all your books have disappeared.
If you want to read some FAQs about Author Central Sales Info, login to
your Author Central Account, or learn more about BookScan, then take a look and then come back here.