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@Kiran H. J. Dellimore, Yes I realize the google search (https://www.google.com/search?q=979-8642874554) should have pulled up Amazon. The question is why didn't it. I think the answer is because Amazon would rather people use Amazon to search for books rather than the Google search engine. I under that you might not be aware of this. This is why I'm bringing it up, so that you and other authors are aware. The terms are set by the publish not Ingram, at least this is what Ingram told me when inquired why all the Amazon published books have such bad terms. Again Amazon touts their titles as being in distribution while this is technically true, the terms are so bad as to make the books unattractive to booksellers. Amazon surely knows this and are clearly misleading authors, which make them untrustworthy as a business partner. Of course Ingram is not the only distributor. I also deal with Lushena Books out of chicago, who gives me better terms than Ingram, but Ingram has a much larger inventory and of course they have the software to track and move books. Honestly I was surprised to see that many books in stock (or backorder myself). This is a relatively high number. Are you aware of any extra demand for Walking in Footsteps of Promise? It is worth checking with Lulu. Why so many titles were printed and send to Ingram's warehouses? If this is indeed a POD book, ask them who pays the printing costs and who is responsible for the returns? Yes some absolutely do. Even some booksellers leverage Amazon's site to make money -- largely because no one knows there site exists and Amazon provides the only venue these websites can make real money. But the is at the expense of the the collective benefit of the entire book economy -- especially the Black book economy. (you wrote that Amazon has approximately 50% of the entire print book market, for Black books the number if probably closer to 90%) Simple, we all have to stop using Amazon. Reader will have to leave Amazon too because they will have to go to where the books are being sold. The pandemic has made it clear that there are indeed people willing to support independent booksellers. No, I do not believe this can be done. Nothing short of a boycott will make a difference. I understand that consider the prospect of boycotting Amazon scary -- especially for authors who have published and now sell exclusively through Amazon. Look even major publishers cower under Amazon's power. But again, nothing short of us not using Amazon will make a difference. So either you want an Amazon to be the only company who can sell Black books or you don't. The loss of physical and even web based booksellers is incalculable.