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Book Marketing Magic: What You Can Learn from Amazon
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Image from ShutterStock. BOOK MARKETING MAGIC It would be hard to find anybody who can sell books better than Amazon. At first, this seems like a great benefit of self-publishing. Just throw your book on Amazon, and the word’s greatest bookseller will sell your book for you, right? Too bad it…
Short Stories & Kindle Unlimited: The good, the bad, and the whacko
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INTRODUCTION I will make two points in this article: Don’t sweat the myth that Kindle Unlimited promotes shorter works. It doesn’t. There is an opportunity to market shorter works through Kindle Unlimited. But it won’t be easy. If you have short stories that you want to market on Kindle, the second…
How to Cook the Look of Your Book
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Choosing Your Book’s Style Consider a few things you know about style and perception: A suit makes a more professional impression, right? Yet many consumers are more apt to trust a t.v. model in blue jeans and a t-shirt. Worn clothes with holes reflect poor quality, yes? But have you ever…
#Free #ebook w/ #KindleUnlimited (**New** Twitter Amazon Hashtags for Kindle Unlimited) #AmazonCart
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http://amzn.com/B0090U01P0 Kindle Unlimited Hashtags Amazon recently launched Kindle Unlimited, a subscription service where customers can access 600,000 titles (including all 500,000 KDP Select tiles plus 100,000 more from small presses, with some popular series like Harry Potter in the mix) for $9.99 per month. A customer can borrow up to 10…
Marketing Children’s Books with Kindle Unlimited
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Marketing Opportunity for Children’s Authors Children’s authors—and to some extent, even tween and teen authors—have the potential to use Kindle Unlimited as a marketing opportunity. There are many parents, teachers, educators, and librarians who would love kids to READ much more. Kindle Unlimited is an incredible value for parents: Bedtime stories.…
Kindle Unlimited & Marketing Strategies (for A-L-L Authors)
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Kindle Unlimited Affects Every Author Whether or not your books participate in Kindle Unlimited, this new Amazon program impacts how you should market your books. Kindle Unlimited allows Amazon customers to read an unlimited number of books—with 600,000 to choose from—for a monthly fee of $9.99. You can learn more about…
Get the Most out of Kindle MatchBook
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Cover design by Melissa Stevens at http://www.theillustratedauthor.net. Is Kindle MatchBook Working for You? If you have a print edition (e.g. through CreateSpace) and Kindle edition for the same book, you may be eligible to participate in the Kindle MatchBook program. (Scroll down to learn more about what MatchBook is and how…
Marketing Books with QR Codes
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QR Codes Why should you care about them? Three good reasons: Humans are more likely to pursue an option that allows them to be lazy. Extra work deters sales. People can easily make mistakes when typing a website address. Typos cost sales. Many of your potential customers are into the latest…
Most Valuable Marketing Tools for Self-Published Authors
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1 Word of Mouth What it can do for you: It can generate sales even when you’ve had a couple of recent unfavorable reviews. What a reader’s buddy tells them about your book carries more weight than what some random stranger writes on your Amazon product page. It doesn’t rely on…
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