Michael, in general I agree. This is years now but important still. I continually rail at Amazon to provide authors/content producers/and publishers with access to more insights, in fact I have mentioned they could charge for the access. Simple promotional tools alerting past buyers to future products, surveys, etc would drive massive engagement and more sales. Seriously, the GUI of amazon, google etc… for the size of the company, and depth of the talent is appalling to me. The UI /UXpeople are either clowns or the politics are horrific. This is like saying a Ph.D. Graphics Art level pro who uses chewed crayons for ‘art’ is genius. No, its lazy, and underwhelming.

I agree with Michael. We need to see the Kindle Unlimited Downloads. We need some idea how many readers have our books in their que to make decisions about continuing series and so forth.

He’s also right that we need better data from AMS/Amazon Ads. Sales reporting there is extremely slow to non-existent for weeks at a time. There is no reporting at all from AMS of Kindle Unlimited downloads or page reads. That needs to change. I mean, let’s be real; we’re paying for those clicks, so they should be giving us data that lets us actually let’s us see if we’re getting KU downloads as well as sales. I have one book, as an example, that has a couple of hundred clicks in the month my ad for it has been running but not one reported sale. The book sells at least a copy every day and gets hundreds to 1,000 or more KU page reads per day. Amazon Ads make it look like it’s losing me big money.

Hey Michael! That’s a great point about not seeing the KU book downloads. Ultimately, though, I do think the KDP reports beta seems to be moving in the right direction. Fingers crossed that Amazon is able to tackle some of these concerns in future updates.