Materials on how to write, publish and market your ebook
Today’s guest post is by author K.B. Jensen (@KB_Jensen).
If you are an indie author on Amazon, as part of Amazon’s Kindle Select Program, you can use five free days to promote your ebook in exchange for three months of exclusivity. Many traditional publishers are increasingly doing free promos as well, and the competition is growing with thousands of free ebooks available every day. So how do you stand out?
READ MORE: https://www.janefriedman.com/rock-free-day-promotion-ebook/
Many authors still have mixed feelings about Goodreads, but the reality is, if you want to sell more books, you need to engage with dedicated readers.
And there’s no better place to find dedicated readers than on Goodreads.
Every solid book marketing strategy fuses uniqueness with variety.
Only posting on your blog won’t sell more books, only posting on Facebook won’t sell more books, what you need to do is find a way to combine a number of channels in a management amount of time and use them in smart, unique ways.
In this piece I want to focus on Goodreads, and some book marketing strategies that often get overlooked.
READ MORE: https://www.amarketingexpert.com/5-unique-book-marketing-strategies-goodreads/
Authors tend to focus on Amazon’s US store to measure how well a book is doing, but Amazon US is only one slice of a very large pie in the ebook business. While industry statistics are inconsistent regarding the exact percentage Amazon US holds of the English-language ebook market, according to the Author Earnings Report, Amazon US composes 65% of all unit sales.
That leaves a lot of market for authors to tap. Amazon, iBooks, Kobo, and Google Play all offer access to a wide array of non-US English-reading audiences who are ready and eager to buy books. (Nook is the only major retailer available solely in the US.)
And, of course, you want these global readers to buy your books. However, they cannot buy what they do not see. Like all markets, visibility is key, so let’s talk about how to reach international audiences — at a low cost.
read more https://insights.bookbub.com/sell-more-books-internationally-low-cost/
Every year millions of people start new blogs with dreams of making an income to help support their family or to just pursue something they love. But, as we know, a massive portion of those blogs fail in the first year.
So when should we give up on a blog? How do we know that this isn’t as good as it’s going to get in terms of traffic, subscribers and earnings? And when do we throw in the towel and just cut our losses and run?
My thoughts…?
Don’t give up on your blog just yet…
You’ve published your book, offered it for presale, celebrated your launch with champagne, and sold copies to almost everyone you know. You’re even blogging regularly. It’s about this time when many new authors begin to wonder, “What can I do next to reach even more readers?” Pitching the media, contacting book clubs, and reading at…
You’ve published your book, offered it for presale, celebrated your launch with champagne, and sold copies to almost everyone you know.
You’re even blogging regularly.
It’s about this time when many new authors begin to wonder, “What can I do next to reach even more readers?”
read more https://www.bookworks.com/2017/12/twitter-lists-author-tips-social-media/
When it comes to producing great videos for social media that drive engagement and audience growth, there’s no perfect formula. But there are certain ingredients that can go along way to achieving success.
In this guide we take you through Hootsuite’s own 10-step video creation process and tell you how we made one of our most successful videos to date (below).
read more : https://blog.hootsuite.com/create-great-video-guide/
A new year is right around the corner. We live in an age of unprecedented technological advances. Yet, as authors and publishers, we are still people of the printed word.
Each year, it gets harder to attract attention for any given book. The number of books produced each year is growing faster than the population rate is growing—while the average time spent reading daily is decreasing.
Marketing is essential to engage readers’ attention for your books. To keep your book marketing activities effective and relevant, you should be aware of these five important trends as we move into 2018.
In sub-Saharan Africa—Mali, Niger, Chad—half the citizens are illiterate. Yet a teenager cocks her head and listens to a story, one that rivets her to her chair and makes her eyes go wide. A story with universal human meaning and appeal far beyond its hometown. One that assures her she is not alone.
Your story.
Maybe she has not yet learned to read. Maybe she’s not allowed to. Maybe she speaks only Arabic or Swahili.
Doesn’t matter. In five years, she’ll hear your story in her native tongue.
read more https://careerauthors.com/ai-changes-future-books/
At Reedsy, our goal has always been to help authors through every stage of the publishing process, from the actual writing down to the marketing and promotion. However, if there’s one thing our marketplace can’t do, it’s the actual publishing of the book. By that, I mean pressing the button that puts your book up for sale on Amazon — and other retailers.
Ebook distribution is a complex, ever-evolving topic. For example, a major ebook publishing platform, Pronoun, shut down no longer than last week at the time of this writing. To make authors’ lives easier, we’ve compiled everything you need to know about ebook publishing platforms in this guide.
Orna Ross, creative entrepreneur and authorpreneur
We hear much these days about the rise of the author as entrepreneur, writes Orna Ross, founder and director of ALLi. Both #authorpreneur and #creativepreneur are lively hashtags on Twitter and expanding categories on Amazon, Kobo and other online stores.
But how many authors understand what this means, let alone fall into this category?
What is an entrepreneur? What is a creative entrepreneur, an author-entrepreneur?
Must all indie authors aim for this? And if yes, what does it take to combine art and entrepreneurship, craft and commerce, into a successful author enterprise?
read more https://selfpublishingadvice.org/why-indie-authors-are-entrepreneurs/
