Our first book, A Wine Journey appeared on Amazon.com last week. Originally it was marked as “Temporarily out of stock” but Kathy and I were able to create our author pages. On Friday they had stock and by Friday evening the book was once again “Temporarily out of stock.” The hard cover edition has always been “Temporarily out of stock.” As new authors we do not know what to make of this. We assume that Amazon received a few copies and it looks like another reseller picked them up and has them for sale. Amazon had a better deal if you were able to order other books because ours was eligible for free super saving shipping.

How Amazon works is a part of our learning curve. Just their logo is part of our learning curve. For example I didn’t realize that there was a smile as a part of the logo. With television advertisements I learned that it is a smile. Furthermore, my son-in-law, Andy, pointed out the smile is an arrow that moves from “A” to “Z” in the name Amazon. In other words Amazon has everything from A to Z. I never saw that before. It is like the arrow in the FedEx name – just look for it.

Now that our book is sometimes on Amazon, we are curious to see how long it will remain “Temporarily out of stock.”

Cheers,
Terry