We recently received an email from authors and Freado regulars – Brenda Woody and Steve Tindle. They gave us feedback on the CoverMatcher game and also told us that they had made a new blog post about Freado. In the post, they write: Steve and I love to play CoverMatcher and have won several books and […]
Hunger Games Fan Festival Twitter Contest Winner Announced
As you may know, the Hunger Games Fan Festival is happening on Freado until the 30th of April. Before the festival began, we conducted a Twitter contest in which a number of contestants participated. We completed the prize drawing yesterday and the winner (drum roll please!) is Stephanie Norris. Stephanie walks away with the following: […]
The Indie-Author Lament
If you haven’t yet seen this video take a look. It will brighten your day.
The Book Marketing Technology Week in Review (April 7 – 14)
Notable blog posts, articles and happenings on the web: Joel Friedlander wrote up an inspiring blog post at his Book Designer blog. Read ‘The Profit in Persistence‘, to get the “Rocky Balboa” in you to wake up and start blogging. The Justice Department jumped directly into the fight over the future of digital books on […]
Why You Should Participate in the Hunger Games Fan Festival on Freado.com
The Hunger Games Fan Festival (THGFF) on Freado is an online celebration of the Hunger Games trilogy where fans of the series create quizzes and word games to win free Hunger Games merchandise. It started on April 10th and ends on April 30th 2012. We’re seeing a huge amount of interest from fans of in […]
How to Market Your Book During the Hunger Games Festival on Freado.com
The Hunger Games Festival on Freado.com is an online book festival for fans of the Hunger Games trilogy with over 30 prizes to be won in 21 days. The festival is being conducted by BookBuzzr to draw the attention of fans of the Hunger Games universe and showcase the books of our participating authors in […]
Stop Press! The Hunger Games Festival is Coming Soon on Freado.com!
What is it? An online book festival for fans of the Hunger Games trilogy with over 30 prizes to be won in 21 days. If you are a BookBuzzr Pro Author targeting the teen or YA market, this is a fantastic opportunity to find new readers for your book. When is it? April 10th to […]
New Easter Egg Landing Themes from BookBuzzr
This Easter, wish visitors to your website in a unique way with new Easter landing page widgets from BookBuzzr. All landing page themes from BookBuzr now come in two sizes. One size is a large, overlay screen (useful when you really want to get the attention of your visitors such as when you are doing […]
Announcing the New Landing Page Widget Technology from BookBuzzr
At BookBuzzr, we’ve been working for over 2 years with thousands of authors with just one goal in mind – get them to find more readers and sell more books through the use of innovative technologies. Our research showed that one of the major challenges an author faces is in grabbing the attention of their […]
Why the Amazon KDP Select DOES NOT Affect BookBuzzr Authors
UPDATE – FEB 5, 2012 We’ve received an email from an author who received an email directly from Amazon mentioning that it is okay to put up an excerpt of your book. Specifically, the email says, “You may offer a sample, excerpt or teaser of your KDP Select-enrolled book on your website, as long as […]
Do the Number of Facebook Fans on Your Fan Page Matter?
An author recently asked the following question on the BookBuzzr Pro Authors Forum: What kind of impact does the number of Facebook fans have on your book sales? To answer this question let’s do a thought experiment: Consider two authors of the same genre, both of whom are equally unknown to you. Let’s call the […]