How to Get Book Reviews on Amazon
How to Get Book Reviews on Amazon Having your book reviewed on Amazon is one of the most effective way of increasing the popularity of your book. The benefit is double. On the one hand, it boosts the credibility of the book in the eye of potential readers and on the other hand, Amazon uses the reviews in its algorithm and the more positive reviews (4 stars and higher), the higher it pushes our book in the search algorithm. Yet, getting reviews … Read entire article »
Tips And Resources To Create Professionally Looking Book Trailers
Treasure Map To Create Professionally Looking Book Trailers From the Comfort Of Your Home Book Trailer Treasure Map is a new product launch by self-published authors Deborah Drum and Amy Harrop, who also created the awesome Publisher’s Review Accelerator reviewed here. This step by step guide to produce video book trailers is a multimedia training course in five modules. Each module contains a number of instructional videos, together with downloadable manuals, templates, checklists, etc. All the resources are accessible via a … Read entire article »
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The Next Frontier Of Digital Self-Publishing Has Been Breached
The Next Frontier Of Digital Self-Publishing Has Been Breached The ebook revolution began quietly in 2007 with the introduction of Kindle e-reader in 2007. 6 years later, e-books have completely changed the publishing industry landscape, gaining 22% of all book spending for the second quarter of 2012 according to a Bowker survey. On Amazon itself, the share of ebooks for the same period reached a whooping 27%. As the pioneer of the ebook revolution , Amazon has … Read entire article »
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Opportunity to get a professional recording for your book at cost!
Message from the blog founder Opportunity to get a professional recording for your book at cost! … Read entire article »
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Audiobook Solution for Independent Authors
Kbuuk Partners with VoiceBunny to Offer Audiobook Solution for Independent Authors (via PR Newswire) Download image HOUSTON, Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Kbuuk, LLC (http://kbuuk.com) has teamed up with VoiceBunny (http://voicebunny.com), a global voice talent service, to provide independent authors a convenient way to create audio books. The partnership will provide online self-published authors… … Read entire article »
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Culturonomics : Books as Raw Material to Study Cultural Tendencies (addendum)
Culturonomics : Books as Raw Material to Study Cultural Tendencies (addendum) About 4 months ago, we published a post about the relatively new science of Culturonomics. Now by pure chance, being bored at work, someone stumbled (yes, that is from Stumbleupon and you are welcome to follow our account) on this awesome video by the creators of Culturonomics, so we thought this would be the ideal time of the year to share it with you … Read entire article »
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The Perfect Christmas Present To Create A Generation Of eBook Readers
The Perfect Christmas Present To Create A Generation Of eBook Readers As writers, hence book lovers, Christmas time has traditionally been the time to visit bookstores and look for the best book for the little ones among our family and friends. Yet, with the fast rise of digital books, passing on our love for reading might imply changing our Christmas shopping habits. Paper books look increasingly like they will be a thing of the past by the time today’s children will … Read entire article »
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It does not write the book for you, but it sure helps!
yWriter : The BEST Writing Software Anywhere Guest post by Chandler McGrew (Originally published here) I’ve been writing seriously for over twenty years and published for twelve. When I decided I could write for a living way back when I bought one of those portable typewriters with a screen that would show like one sentence ahead before it typed. High tech. I wrote four novels with that monstrosity at a time when every manuscript had to be … Read entire article »
Writers resources: How to get 200 000 pageviews in a year and a half on a shoestring budget
Writers resources: How to get 200 000 pageviews in a year and a half on a shoestring budget As writers, whether self-published or not, we are now required to actively participate in marketing our book. So, we need a blog, and, ideally, a blog with traffic. Now, creating a blog is really a piece of cake nowadays and requires no knowledge of programming, coding etc anymore. Though this blog is on WordPress, which does include some level of coding, … Read entire article »
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Turning writing into content management. The future of literature?
Turning writing into content management. The future of literature? Reading the biography of a large number of writers, they wrote because they had to, not because they wanted to make money from their writing. The avalanche of vampire books that followed Twilight’s series, the similar explosion in steaming hot literature now invading the market after Fifty Shades of Grey success clearly indicates that there are a large number of people out there who consider writing as a money making opportunity. Yet, … Read entire article »
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