THE Group for Authors! discussion

Has anyone else had trouble with Amazon listing their book as "out of stock" or "ships in 2-4 weeks"? My distributor says they gave the most updated information to Amazon, so I can't figure out why Amazon is acting like it's not available.

If it's a POD that should never happen. It's never happened to me.

Yes. My book is currently this way because I made changes to my print version's cover. Because of this, any print copy they might have had that was created or returned was saying "One Left in Stock", then when that old copy (before I revised the cover) was sold, now it says "Out of Stock". It's why I currently have only Kindle available at this time.

Mine is a new book, not revised. It was available right away for a few days and then one went to "out of stock" and the other to "ships in a really long time". I didn't know if anyone else was having this trouble with Amazon.

If it's The Minotaur Riddle then I just looked on Amazon and it doesn't say Out of Stock to me, it just says ships in 1-2 weeks. And are you self-publishing?

I know that you will also have a similar message if someone returns a paperback copy, then someone else buys that copy. That will be when Amazon says, "But it used" or something like that.

But from what I see, you aren't out of stock. If you're concerned you can always ask customer service where they can explain it. Your situation might just be that someone returned a book, but now someone else bought the same copy, which means it's 'out of stock', and now will print per order.