David Wilk is a seasoned publishing industry professional who has started several publishing ventures including BookTrix, Chptr1, LiveWriters and Prospecta Press. David recently invited me to appear on his podcast show. We used Skype to conduct the interview and the quality of the recording is surprisingly good (most of the time.) We spoke about a […]
An Important Improvement to the CoverMatcher Game
The CoverMatcher game is being played tens of thousands of times and the books of subscribing authors are getting memorized by genuine book lovers day in and day out. Based on demand from authors as well as book loving players of the CoverMatcher game, we’ve now added a small but important feature. A player who […]
How To Automate Marketing Your Book on Twitter With BookBuzzr (aka Book Tweeter)
Last Updated: 09th December 2013 We often hear queries from authors and publishers about how to use BookBuzzrs Book Tweeting technology to market books on Twitter. The idea is to help authors market their books on Twitter with a large degree of automation (and without annoying the followers of the authors) If you […]
An Example of a Good Book Trailer
Most book-trailers don’t receive any attention from readers. Problems with many book-trailers include the following: 1. The music does not match the mood of the books 2. They are too long 3. They are too wordy This particular book-trailer of a book by author – L. Anne Carrington does not have any of these problems. […]
Are you wasting time checking your Amazon Sales rank?
How often do you check your book’s Amazon sales rank per day? Does checking your Amazon sales rank make you more productive or less productive? As an author, you feel compelled to check your sales rank because that’s the only way you know if your book is selling. You visit Amazon several times a day […]
4 Ways for Published Print-Only Authors To Market Their Books on Kindle
If you are published author and your book is still only available in print format you’re probably getting seriously frustrated. You see so many other books in your category being offered as a Kindle book. While your own book is available only in dead-tree format.What can you do to promote your book to the universe […]
A Blog Post About Freado
This morning, we were pleased to receive an email from Danyale who has made a blog post about Freado. Danyale writes about all kinds of giveaways and describes herself thus: “I’m a happily married 28yr from NC born and raised. I’m outgoing, open minded, love to joke around and just have fun. I have 2 […]
How to Market Your Book Like Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga has become a music superstar in scarcely a year. She has 3 million followers on Twitter and more than 5.6 million fans on Facebook. While many in the industry write her off as being a little too garish, industry veterans such as Simon Dumenco comment that “Lady Gaga understands viral marketing better than […]
An Awesome List of Freelance Book Publicists
Yen who runs a website called “The Book Publicity Blog” has put up an excellent list of freelance book publicists. While the post is not exactly new, the information is still extremely useful. You can access the list here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p6VporhrtSRVwqIdyt-XeCw A special thanks to Yen for her generosity.
What is BookBuzzr?
We recently received an email from an author asking “What is BookBuzzr?” As some of you, who have been following us know, we’ve grown from just one product (the BookBuzzr Widget) to several different technologies. The one thing that is common among all of our products and technologies is that they are all focused on […]
Will Book Readers Go the Way of Browsers?
In this excellent article – “Amazon Kindle vs. Apple iPad: Could Chris Brogan Be Wrong?” – Joel argues that Amazon’s strategy of trying to dominate the digital book business by offering it’s Kindle platform on a variety of devices is smart but not sufficient. His take is that a variety of reading platforms and ebook […]