I blogged that Kindle Countdown was going to provide new opportunities for authors. It would be fair to say that I had high expectations for this new feature offered by Amazon, which allows authors to run time limited price drop promotions. However, experiences so far have not been good.

For a start, I found it impossible to set up promotions for any of my books. Many were ineligible because the criteria for running a Countdown promotion are strict. However, I couldn't even set up a promotion...