Amazon - getting stock into the warehouse

1) allow 20 days from when you send to get into the warehouse
2) People will not buy if you're not listed as "in Stock"
3) Amazon will not take you "in Stock" unless they have an order
4) unless you tell them about your promotions

so the rule is in future - no promotion until stock has been secured

Also - you have to think about costs. About the cheapest you'll get your books to amazon is if they order a box. i got an order for 30 and the box cost £9.35 to post. thats 32p per book, assuming you have a box you can use.

As the books cost 1.52 to produce and with amazon's cut of 60% of the cover price of £4.99 - you're only making 16p a book.

This seems to mean that you'll only make any kind of money from amazon if you can get your print cost down to more like 50p. That means print runs of 10k.

I'll do a little entry on how much I can make from all methods of selling - plus I'm going to have to look into wholesalers and neilsen book data more seriously for the next phase of development