It’s about time.
If you haven’t noticed, I’m taking a break from the Peru posts. Not to worry, those who have been following the stories and pictures of my travels, I’ll start blogging about Peru again next week. For now, I am excited (and relieved) that the trade paperback versions of my two Amber Quill Press romantic comedies, HEAD OVER HEELS and BORROWING ALEX, are now FINALLY available on Canadian Amazon.
HEAD OVER HEELS was on Canadian Amazon for a short while. The printer that Amber Quill Press uses had subcontracts with Canadian printers, so if someone in western Canada, for example, ordered the trade paperback, the books would be printed and shipped from Victoria, B.C. Then Amazon (the big American conglomerate) bought the printer–and immediately canceled the printing sub-contracts. As a result, BORROWING ALEX has never been on Canadian Amazon. Until now!
Earlier this year, I blogged that Amazon had announced they were opening a Canadian warehouse, and I had hopes this meant my books would FINALLY be available for Canadians to order without having to worry about border-crossing charges, etc. That day has arrived.
Here are links to the pages, if you’re interested:
You’ll note that Amazon states that the books are not in stock but you can order and they’ll deliver the books when they’re available. What this means is that they are either:Ā (1) shipping them from the U.S. warehouse to the Canadian warehouse and then to you, or (2) waiting to print copies once they receive an order. You see, because they bought the printing company that services a number of micro-publishers like Amber Quill Press, when someone orders a book from one of those publishers, Amazon either orders from the printer and then ships to you or Amazon prints copies itself within its warehouse. They do the latter in the States, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they had in-warehouse printers set up in their Canadian warehouse, too. That’s the beauty of print-on-demand. They can print just one copy or they can print 100 and then stock the rest, depending on how many orders they receive.
So if you’re Canadian, hope on over to www.amazon.ca and check it out! If you type my name into the search engine (remember that E in Procter), a page listing both books miraculously appears. Yoop-yoop! And, oh, yeah, you can qualify for free shipping by adding my books to other books you order. So yoop-yoop for you, too!
If you have a Kindle, both books are available through the U.S. Kindle store.
Congratulations! I hope you sell many books to Canadian readers. And U.S. readers too. š
Thanks, Edie. I don’t know about the sales. The books have been out for awhile and it’s not like I’m well known. Most Canadians who wanted them either ordered them from American Amazon already or bought through me (I have a small stock on hand, but the postage is high, which always made me feel bad). Now I can direct Canadians who ask to Amazon, and now the next Cindy Procter-King book that gets pubbed with a small U.S. publisher or micro-publisher stands a better chance of getting onto Canadian Amazon without taking 3 or more years!
By the way, your comment shows as July 12th. That’s ‘cuz I mistakenly scheduled the post to apear on July 1st. I received your comment notification two days ago, LOL. Thanks for the comment, because it alerted me that I’d scheduled the post wrong.
Congrats, Cindy! š
Thanks. The little things excite me, that’s for sure. Baby steps. š
Hey, I have a Kindle and I haven’t read Head Over Heels yet. What to do, what to do… š
If you DON’T know what to do, I’ll bop you upside the head!
Which reminds me, I have your first book on my hard drive and have yet to read it. Aren’t we bad?
You don’t have to read HOH, I promise. Just buy it. Help replenish the King Family Kraft Dinner Fund! Contribute to the KFKDF today!!!
P.S. That goes for anyone reading this far.
Oh, very cool. I just thought, “Hey, I bought HOH already, but I never got BA, I should get it for Kindle.” So I clicked the link, which of course took me to Amazon.ca. Then I changed the ca to com and guess what?! It took me to the right page! That long, garbled URL is exactly the same!
Then I could buy it right then and there! Gotta love that convenience. š
Thanks, Natalie for buying the Kindle edition of BA. I knew they didn’t have Kindle pages on Canadian Amazon, and I confess I don’t really know how it works when a Canadian orders off the U.S. Amazon Kindle page (because we can now, if we have Kindles). I guess we buy in U.S. dollars and it translates into Canadian somehow.
I hope you enjoy BA! It’s a little over the top, but that’s why I love it. It’s like a goofy romcom movie. š