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Re:Amazon Won’t Pay Self-Published Author For Books It Mista... by leerpm on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @08:48AM (#3210687)
There may be a start-up idea here: an application to allow authors to easily monitor changes to their ebook prices?
Re:Amazon Won’t Pay Self-Published Author For Books It Mista... by dotBen on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @09:25AM (#3210807)
This is one of those examples where yes, that sounds like a good idea but the size of the addressable market is rather slim.

Most self-publishers are not making huge amounts of money to justify spending more than a token amount on such monitoring.

A bigger app/suite of services to support self-publishers (especially as many are not tech-savvy) might be helpful, which could include this.

Re:Amazon Won’t Pay Self-Published Author For Books It Mista... by marisela_arias on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @10:08AM (#3210979)
That's not the problem here. The author presumably found the price change rather quickly. It was Amazon that took a long time to respond to the error that's at issue.
Re:Amazon Won’t Pay Self-Published Author For Books It Mista... by threepointone on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @09:18AM (#3210775)
Sounds more like a feature in a bigger app, but yes, I agree with you. There's something there.
Re:Amazon Won’t Pay Self-Published Author For Books It Mista... by 211231321 on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @09:44AM (#3210876)
The app should be able to easily post your book to most major ebook markets.