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Kindle Giveaway not working? (or hard to find)
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So...doing some more digging. Here's a couple of bugs for Goodreads folks. 1. The default page I'm going to if I hit the 'Giveaways' tab under 'Browse' says it is showing 'All Giveaways' but it's not, it's only showing Print. I know this because when I change the filter to 'All Giveaways' I see some for Kindle.
2. If I toggle the field at the bottom to clear the filter that says only to show me Giveaways from Canada, it goes back to the featured category (i.e. it doesn't work) and if I then hit 'recently listed' it goes back to print only. So I still cannot find my giveaway.
Hi Michael. Once your giveaway is open for entries, members can find it on the book page, where they can click through to the giveaway itself. They can also find your giveaway on the giveaway genre pages based on which genres you selected when you created it. As Kindle giveaways are limited to our US members, you won't be seeing these on your side as your location is set to Canada. You can, however, see your giveaway on your author dashboard.I'm asking someone to look into the behavior when filtering by country on the different giveaway tabs (Featured, Ending Soon, Most Requested, Recently Listed) by all countries. Thanks for bringing that to our attention!
Deb wrote: "I can find the kindle giveaways easily 😊"Thanks, Deb, must be the searching from Canada issue and bugs.
Unfortunately, I've had a disappointing start to it. I wonder if there's a better way to highlight giveaways, now that they're charging for them, that will improve their value.
Is it because I'm Canadian and so they won't show up for me? Even if that is the case, is the only way someone would find a Kindle giveaway by having to toggle the 'filter by' field on the Giveaway page? THAT doesn't seem quite good enough to me ...
I'd love hear from someone on GR about this.
Mike