Today’s guest post from Dana Lynn Smith, The Savvy Book Marketer, is part of the virtual book tour for her newest book marketing guide, Virtual Book Tour Magic. Whether you’re writing articles or doing interviews, a virtual book tour is your opportunity to shine in front of a targeted audience of potential book buyers. Here […]
The Top 3 Things You Should Keep In Mind When Selling Your Ebook
Guest: Simon Cheshire Some say that publishing is dead, that mainstream book production is fast going the way of the dodo, and that we should all be in a state of cultural panic. Others say that there’s never been a better time to be a writer, and that we’re living in a publishing renaissance on […]
What To Keep In Mind When Publishing eBooks
Guest: Andrea Susan Glass According to Forrester Research, digital book sales tripled to $966 million in 2010 and are set to almost triple again by 2015. Last summer, Amazon said sales of ebooks for its Kindle reader had far eclipsed hardcover book sales. In about 2007, Amazon introduced its Kindle ereader and Barnes and Noble […]
5 Lessons I Learnt About Book Marketing from Writing Get Noticed
Guest: Marcus Taylor, co-author of the book Get Noticed About four months ago Rob (co-author) and I were discussing whether to self-publish our book or instead go down the traditional publishing route, in the end we chose to self-publish – after all, we had written a book about getting noticed, so we decided to put […]
3 Steps to e-Book Cover Design Success
Guest Expert: Joel Friedlander The move to e-books has brought with it a new challenge for book cover designers, amateur and professional. The first challenge, of course, if you’ve been designing book covers for any time, is to understand exactly what an e-book cover really is. Unlike print books, which we can pick up and […]
Is the eBook Expressway Every Author’s Back Road — to Big Bucks & a Bona Fide Writing Career?
Guest Expert: Laurel Marshfield While rarely noticed, there’s an instructive parallel between people who yearn to be famous authors and those who yearn to be famous actors. The mainstream literary scene, like Hollywood, is constellated by twenty-five or so big-name authors with literary-auction-level fame (and among actors, by twenty-five or so who possess mega-watt star […]
Congratulations Carolyn on Winning USA “BEST BOOKS 2011” Award!
Recently we got to know that Carolyn Howard-Johnson, a BookBuzzr Author won The USA “BEST BOOKS 2011” Award for best business book in the writing category for her new edition of The Frugal Book Promoter. Congratulations Carolyn! (USABookNews.com, is the premiere online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses.) We’ve invited Carolyn […]
EEEEEE-books!! 5 Top Questions
A short intro to digital media for authors who haven’t got a clue Guest Expert: Lynn Serafinn I’m a fairly techie person. I’m on the computer so much I might has well have a microprocessor implanted into my brain so I didn’t have to sit at my desk all the time. But although I’m pretty […]
Going Digital with eBooks
Guest Expert: Paula Krapf “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.” Stephen Fry What’s relatively inexpensive to produce, has a quick turnaround time, and is Evergreen? In the publishing world, we’re talking about eBooks. Once mostly unknown and obscure documents with limited distribution, eBooks in some cases now outsell hardback and […]
Smart Strategies for Pricing Your Ebook
Guest Expert: Dana Lynn Smith There’s no doubt that ebooks sales are sizzling, and ebooks have even surpassed sales of printed books on Amazon.com. But the publishing industry continues to wrestle with the issue of how to price ebooks competitively, while still providing a reasonable profit for authors and publishers. Consumers expect ebook prices to […]
Plan your (eBook) “Flight” and “Fly Your Plan”
Expert: Claudia Jackson Pilots use checklists for pre-flight and pre-landing operations. A checklist helps keep a pilot focused, remember important details and most importantly help them make good decisions to prevent simple errors that might otherwise lead to disaster. In order for your book get a great take-off you need a checklist. Keep in mind […]