Some of you may already know about the new viral book marketing technology from BookBuzzr named QuickQuiz. This book marketing technology can be extremely powerful when used in the right way. This article gives you a few guidelines on how to create a QuickQuiz game that gets you the best returns on the time that […]
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 […]
Announcing QuickQuiz – The World’s First Viral Marketing Technology for Books
At BookBuzzr, we’ve been hard at work creating a brand new technology that will allow you to market your book in a viral manner on Facebook through quick quizzes. We’ve spoken about this technology in earlier newsletters. We used to refer to it as QuizBuzzr then. We’ve now renamed the technology as QuickQuiz based on […]
Book Review: ‘Get Published Today’ by Penny Sansevieri
For too long, the publishing industry has been a mysterious, clubby, closed business. Authors have had to struggle with a number of unanswered questions. Questions like, “What makes a best-seller?”, “What is a Co-op?” or “What are Reserves against returns?” In her book, ‘Get Published Today’, Penny Sansevieri answers such questions and more. The sub-title […]
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 […]
Having a Eye-Catching Author Website is Easier Than You Think
Guest: Frank Anderson I’m not an author, I’m a web designer and web hosting manager. I’ve never written a book, but I’ve seen hundreds, if not thousands of websites created by authors to pitch their latest project. And it makes me cringe every time I see a book with so much potential ruined for the […]
Ten Reasons Your Book Should Be an E-Book, Too
Expert: Carolyn Howard-Johnson I like to think of myself as a writer of fiction and a poet. So I had a tendency to resist the e-book landslide when it first came tumbling around the ears of creative writers. But then—thankfully—my past retail experience took hold. (See my how-to books for retailers at www.howotoditfrugally.com/retailers_books.htm.) I realized […]
May the Force of Ebooks Be With You
Guest Expert: Phyllis Zimbler Miller The explosion of ebooks onto the Internet, starting with the first Kindle device in November 2007, has put power into the hands of authors, who can now self-publish their own ebooks. And more and more digital reading platforms, from Kindle’s Fire tablet to Barnes & Noble’s Nook to the iPad […]
Got a 5-Star Amazon Presence?
How to Stand Out on Those Overcrowded Online Shelves Guest Expert: Laurel Marshfield Amazon.com is the world’s largest online bookseller. And if you’re an author with one or more books, it is the one place you most definitely want to be. Getting visibility, though, is no easy task. You are competing with millions of books, […]
The Amazon Launch for Your Book: What You Can Learn from My Mistakes
Expert: Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the multi award-winning Frugal Book Promoter: How to get nearly free publicity on your own or partnering with your publisher (updated and expanded to 416 pages!) As the author of The Frugal Book Promoter and other award-winning books in the HowToDoItFrugally series of books, I probably shouldn’t have made any […]