I was  dutifully surfing the net working on tours  last night when I came across a blog post at Marketing Christian Books about a nifty website where you can keep track of your buy button at Amazon.  Seems one day it’s there and the next, it might not be, which translates to lost sales if someone were to want to buy your book that day.

The site is called Who Moved My Buy Button and will automatically tell you when your buy button disappears and when it reappears.  How. Cool. Is. That.

So, being the nosy one, I went over to check it out.  Why not -  I’d love to find out if for some odd reason my buy button gets eaten up by the 900 lb. gorilla as my publisher likes to call it.

I clicked the sign up button and nothing happened.  Perhaps it’s still in the beta stage but here’s what I got off the website:

It happens without warning, always. Just ask the authors in the U.K., well published by major houses, who woke up to find their Buy Buttons had gone missing. No “pardon the inconvenience” e-note from Seattle, just a quiet severing of ties with a few million customers. It’s happened here in the U.S., too, more times than you know. See, the folks at Amazon have a headlock on the online book world, and they tend to get carried away. That’s why we developed WhoMovedMyBuyButton.com. We’ll keep an eye on your Buy Buttons, checking daily to make sure they’re safe. If they’re AWOL, we’ll let you know by e-mail. We’ll also let you know when they return.

This is a good thing, no?

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