Amazon’s Author Central Update

I posted about Amazon’s new improved Author Central pages this time last month. While setting up my own page, I decided to email Amazon and ask them about my Amazon Connect blog being removed from my book’s pages. I received a reply today:
Hello,

I’m sorry for the delay in getting back to you about this.

Thank you for contacting us. Author blogs that previously showed up on book detail pages have been moved to Author Pages, which we believe are the best place for customers to read author posts.

The blogging feature is now available exclusively through Author Central (https://authorcentral.amazon.com), a new destination that offers one central location for you to claim and verify your titles, update RSS feeds, and revise your bibliography, in addition to managing your blog.

All of your blog content will now post directly to the Author Page, and we’ve automatically transferred all of your account information so you can log into Author Central with the same user name and password you set up for Amazon Connect.

Customers can find Author Pages by searching on an author’s name. In our search results, if more than one author has the same name, we display the author with the most sales first.

Author Pages are a brand new part of our store, and we appreciate your feedback as we continue to invent new ways to help customers discover authors and their work.

If you have any additional questions or comments, please send us an e-mail at ac-general@amazon.com

Thank you for contacting Author Central.

So the blog has been moved to the Author Central page.  And it seems the only way readers will now find your Author page and your blog is if they search for your name. Once again, Amazon has a great idea but they bury it in the shopping trenches rather than giving it proper exposure and easier access for everyone to find.  How disappointing!

Still haven’t signed up for Author Central and updated your own page?  Click here.