Amazon KDP provides a pretty neat service if you ask. They will establish a “series page” for your novels if you ask. Its a pretty useful link and you can direct all your novel traffic there for “one-stop” shopping.
I had Amazon set this up for me for when I had three novels in the New Druids series. I loved it and even went so far as to have my business cards and bookmarks provide a QR code to send people to the Amazon KDP series page.
Then I released Freamhaigh and Amazon dutifully updated the series page to include the new novel. In doing so, they changed the URL. Which meant that all my business cards and bookmarks I had made up were providing a QR code to a dated URL. I asked Amazon to correct this. Turns out they can’t. I’m not sure why; they simply provided a reply to me that they could not.
I’m an IT savvy fellow. I am disappointed to say the least. I know it can be done and translate their response to: its too much manual labour and if they do this for me they will have to do it for everyone. I’m guessing here. I will say that Amazon, as usual, have been very responsive and very supportive. They have even stated:
“I’ll take your concern as feature request and communicate the same to our business team for consideration as we plan future improvements.
Feedback like yours motivates us to dive deep and unearth ways and means which helps us in making publishing on KDP convenient with most features. We definitely value your opinion and will continue to listen and respond to our publisher’s concerns. We will make every effort to evaluate the information you have provided, and try our level best to lead it to program changes or enhancements.”
Interesting. It doesn’t help me now though. I have all these great cards and bookmarks that no longer function as intended. Another hit to Indie Authors, sadly. At least they are listening.