BISACs vs Amazon Categories - I Can't Find the Category I Want!
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2019
- BISACs, what are they?
Have you ever wondered why when uploading your new book that you are only able to choose from a few thousand categories when Amazon has over 12,000?
Well, those few categories that you see on your Author Page are called BISACs and they are the universal categories for bookstore everywhere. So, if you are wanting to learn more about BISACs and what to know how you can still get your book under the categories you want, watch this video and I will show you how!
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Thank you for doing the research for us and patching it so clearly! Keep up the great work! 😃
Dave, every time I check your site, it's not. So does "Mr. Chesson have an answer to this"? No no, it's always, "Is there anything you haven't covered already!" Excellent, can't thank you enough!
This is great info for all authors! I write children's books, and first I just assumed getting 10 categories was a small benefit for the trouble. But following this advice may even be more important than just expanding from 3 to 10. In my case, I selected the 2 best categories, but Amazon has an age restriction (0-3) on the best one, and it refused to place my paperback in that category at all! I had just assumed the books were at least appearing in the 2 I selected, but one book had only one category assigned, and others were assigned to weird categories! Now that I followed Dave's advice (and used Published Rocket to choose the optimal categories), my books are all in the top 100 of many categories, even top 25 in some. And I'm still improving using Rocket. Listen to Dave Chesson!
Thanks Dave! I always wondered about this.
Yeah, it took a lot of research to put it all together. Before doing that, it was like I had a patchwork of understanding but not the whole picture.
Thanks for this. 🙂 I was wondering about the differences and haven't gotten around to researching them. You made it easy!
Awesome and glad you liked it.
You always have the best videos! Thanks, shipmate!
Hahaha...I haven't been shipmated in a while...BZ :)
Great stuff. I still haven't implemented your advice on publisher rocket, but I'm happy with the purchase. Its a very valuable tool for beginner authors
Exceptionally useful information. Thanks, Dave.
Thanks and glad you liked it!
Great explanation! Thanks a lot :)
Thanks for this great info!
Awesome.
Thank you so much! ☺️
You are so welcome!
Thanks Dave for the great information. Also I really love Publish Rocket .
Thanks and glad you like it!
I've had Publisher Rocket for a while, but never used it :-O - These tutorials are wonderful, Dave! I'm reworking the categories for my book, sadly languishing with hardly any sales. Thanks for sharing!!
Well hope these tutorials and rocket help.
Dave, I watched the video, but I had some problems getting that complete category string. I was never asked for the ASIN, only the book title and my email address. I used Rocket's category search, picked out a few likely book and then I went into the book descriptions on Amzaon and, at the bottom, looked at the categories where they were located and made my list from that. Phoned Amazon and was told some categories only apply to paperback, not Kindle, but had my ebook and paperback linked (the man was very helpful) and got 8 instead of 3 categories now. So, all good, but still missing 2 categories.
Thank you ,Dave!
Absolutely!
Always dropping the 4-1-1. You broke it down perfectly 😀👏👍
Thanks man!
Kindlepreneur 😀👏👍
@@DaleLRoberts You both rock guys. I invite all to check Dale's channel. It is a gold mine for those interested in self-publishing.
Thanks dave- I was just researching this when your video came up- kismet!
Yeah it’s a question I get a lot and the answer can really make a difference. Glad you liked it and hope it answered your question.
I am sure happy I subscribed to kindlepreneur, I only wish I did it earlier years ago when I first read your posts.
Awe, well, glad you're here.
VERY helpful information
Glad it was helpful!
Great! But at 5:35, I think you forgot to embed the link to that other video you reference. Just a heads up (maybe it has to be processed or something?)...
Thanks - yeah, we needed it to index and then we can add the hot link cards and the CC as well. On it today.
Please post LINK for Video for Amazon Step by Step System to change my categories into anything I want?. Thank you! Amazing info.!
Awesome and glad you liked it. As for the video, It was listed in the description below the video, but here it is as well: czcams.com/video/Vdv5g3xk8pg/video.html
Enjoy!
I tried to have amazon add my short story into 30 minutes read and they claimed that it goes in the automatically and that we can't request to add a book into those categories. Any idea why? I love all your videos and have learned a lot.
Not really sure since I don't have much experience with those, but I believe its writing a book that is short enough in length that Amazon believes it would take 30 min or less to read.
@@Kindlepreneur thanks for your quick response. I really appreciate all you to help indie authors like myself.
Hi Dave, Does your online tool nerdybookgirl.com/book-category-hunter/ work? I tried several ASIN numbers and there are no results showing on any of those? Any idea why?
Sadly, that is not my tool, but Sam's of Nerdy Book Girl. As for it not working...hmm..not sure. Just tried it and it worked for me.
The problem I see is that if Amazon is changing its categories all the time, then you could put your book into one that's discontinued. Then where would it go?
You get grandfathered into it. You can tell if a category is a discontinued one because they name won't be at the top - only a number.
But how do you know what categories to choose??
I have an article on that, and a video on that.
After you upload your book to Amazon, when can you ask for more categories?
It is a nightmare!!!
Hi could you accept me as a trainee, also I am ready to help you in return ?