Review: Amazing book.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 5, 2013
Stijn B.'s book Create a Sales Page For Your Kindle Book (How to Skyrocket Your Sales Using Author Central Secret Tips) is an excellent, well designed resource on incorporating HTML into your Amazon book description. In addition, the author links to a resource within the book that can make this task far easier for the HTML-impaired, as well as a potentially groundbreaking statistical resource. For this I commend the author on his presentation and integration of this knowledge, and would recommend this book to other authors.It is worth noting, however, that utilizing youtube videos below the fold on a sales page can have the unwanted effect of the video hovering over the ranking text on some browsers such as Safari for Windows, and it is not always visible in every browser. Although the author no longer alludes to this in the book, this technique does appear on the book's Amazon page as of the writing of this review.I was so amazed to see the unique formatting that I immediately had to share it with a few fellow authors. A friend pointed out that when he tried to access the book's page on his Kindle, he received an error from Amazon. This error could potentially discourage sales as opposed to encouraging them. In addition, upon looking at the source code, he noted that the use of the iframe and more complex items could have potentially dangerous effects, and there is a reason why Amazon does not directly allow such coding in the first place. In the wrong hands, it could prove not only tacky but a disastrous flaw in an otherwise secure system.Therefore, as one highly skilled in HTML, I would recommend sticking to the more simple HTML codes in order to more fully integrate with Amazon stylistically.Amazon itself would be well advised to create a WYSIWYG editor for authors to curtail these issues in the future.