Best-seller!
First, I want to thank
everybody who went over to Amazon and bought Weekend
Homesteader, liked
it, or suggested tags
for the ebook. Thanks to you, after less than 24 hours, the ebook
is #1 in the
Kindle Store's Vegetable Garden section and #95 in the general
gardening section for the whole site! I also appreciate those of
you who popped on over to get our other ebooks and boosted EATING
the Working Chicken
to #1 in Kindle's Poultry Cooking section and Microbusiness
Independence to #12
in Kindle's E-commerce division. Wow! I feel like I'm on
the New York Times bestseller list.
I
have a couple more requests, then I'll shut up about this ebook
project. It would be great if we kept on a roll and stayed up
there in the ratings long enough to get random strangers buying the
ebooks, so I'd be thrilled if you like, tag, or buy the book (if you
haven't already.) Perhaps more important, though, I could really
use some reviews on all three ebooks. Two reviewers posted nearly
identical negative reviews on Microbusiness Independence this morning,
and I felt like a failure until Mark pointed out that the reviewers
might have a competing ebook and be trying to run down the
competition. Sure enough, when I clicked on their profile, all of
their reviews are 1 star. Still, I don't think most people are
going to go to the trouble of checking on those negative reviews, and
I'd love to drown them out with a tide of good opinions. Don't
lie, of course, but if you enjoyed the ebooks, please leave a review.
Finally, I was really
serious about emailing you a free copy of Weekend Homesteader's May
edition if you don't want to jump through Amazon's hoops. Even
though I'm trying to leverage the site, I don't approve of their
monopoly. So, feel free to email
me if you want to
read the ebook without buying into the Kindle format.
Thanks again!
You've all made my day!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Book "Aiming at Amazon" by Aaron Shepard and my wife say that you can ask to have reviews removed by Amazon's Community Help. Either use Features and Services contact form, or send email to Community-Help@amazon.com. Specify title, author, and date of review along with your books title and ASIN (ISBN-10). Then tell them your complaint about the reviews. Good luck
Sara --- thanks for going over there and commenting on their comment. I'm so new to Amazon that I didn't realize I could do that.
Probably what I should have done rather than leaving my own review (which is probably not kosher... 
)
Erich --- I'm going to have to check out that book! I was just thinking yesterday that I'm stabbing in the dark and I could use some expert advice. I didn't realize there was recourse about the reviews --- I'll have to try it!
Jonathan --- Good point --- just having people say the comments were unhelpful would knock them out of the running quite effectively. Thanks for your kind words and the review.