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eBook Review Gal has created a post that is essentially a blueprint for creating a winning virtual book tour. We’ve discussed virtual tours before but it is rare to see someone break it down like the eBook Review Gal has done. To read the post yourself click here!
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Author and professional speaker Stefanie Newell has created a video about marketing your book on the internet by actually interacting and she tells you why. Take a look and let us know in the comments what you think!
You do have a Facebook Fan Page for your book or book series, don’t you? If you don’t you need to immediately go to Facebook and create a page for your literary gems. A Facebook Fan Page is a great way to gather fans and potential readers. John Kremer has created a checklist of sorts for promoting your Facebook Fan Page. Read Facebook Tips: 31 Ways to Promote Your Facebook Page and let us know what you think!
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Issuu is a new website where people can post publications. They accept articles, whitepapers, books, magazines, etc. We suggest you include an excerpt of your book in PDF with links to where the full book can be published. Users can read the excerpts and compile them into “topical” stacks.
Make sure that you add the full cover of your book to the first page of your document for eye catching results!
Dreaming of being a best selling author? If you are writing or have written a book your new job is MARKETING! Self published or traditionally published… it doesn’t matter. Someone has to market your book and who better to do this than you? BookMarketingMojo will show you the way!
Grab the FREE Book Publishing Dictionary created by Book Marketing Mojo. It will help you with the ins and outs of publishing!
Your book listing on Amazon.com, the biggest bookseller in the world, is critical. So long as you follow the rules you can make it as robust as you want. Although you can no longer add pictures to your description you can add special formatting using html to make your description stand out.
In your description consider adding:
An actual one or two paragraph description of the book and characters.
Table of contents for a non-fiction book.
Editorial reviews.
Testimonials or reviews that won’t show up on Amazon.com.
Links to your social media sites.
Your biography.
This space on your Amazon.com description is like gold. Use it wisely!
Book Power will teach you how to harness the power of Amazon, the greatest retail giant on Amazon so your content will be seen. Use Amazon as a search engine and optimize your book in a way that will drive more leads than pay per click or search engine optimization. Stop wasting money trying to drive traffic and let them do it for you. Understand the power of Amazon’s massive e-commerce empire and use it to drive pre-qualified traffic, bring more dollars to your business and more clients to your door.
You will learn:
Salon.com has a touching owner by bookstore owner “JL Sathre” that is both funny, touching and sad. There are so few physical bookstores anymore that learning of another one closing is a bit painful. JL does a good job of reducing the pain and including the humor. She started this journey by writing an article titled “25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore”. You can read the entire article at “25 Things I’m Learning From Closing a Bookstore“.
The Digital Book Awards (formerly known as the Publishing Innovation Awards), founded in 2010, recognizes innovation, creativity and excellence in all aspects of digital book publishing. Each year, award winners and finalists in 15 categories demonstrate fresh thinking, inspired design and bold technology integration, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in this constantly evolving publishing arena.
The program encompasses all forms of digital publishing that are available to consumers as ebooks, enhanced digital books and apps, in order to showcase and reward the work of authors, developers and publishers.
Our 2013 winners and finalists, celebrated at an awards luncheon at the Digital Book World Conference, included titles from the big-six publishers, independent publishers, international producers, digital developers, platform hosts, and self-published authors— in other words, a true reflection of the current digital publishing landscape.
All entrants to the Digital Book Awards are automatically entered in our QED process. The QED is a rigorous 13-point inspection conducted by a network of experienced ebook developers to ensure that all entries meet our criteria before the judging begins.
Once the QED process has been completed and your entry is certified “QED ready,” your entry is then reviewed by one of our prestigious judges, all of whom are widely recognized within the publishing industry for their expertise in ebook content, design and production.
Learn why you should enter discover the categories available for this year’s award at Digital Book World!
Money Making Machine – How To Publish, Market and Make Money Using Kindle Books is a Kindle book by Anbu Rayappan. The author wrote this book about his success with Kindle books that he has not even written. He gives tips on how to outsource books for Kindle in addition to lots of marketing tips. In 4 QUICK and SIMPLE Steps, he will tell you exactly what you need to do to create and market your book.
Included in this book are tips such as:
