Guest post by Shelley Hitz The first 25 people to sign-up for the Guest Blogging Product on Thursday April 21st after 8am (Eastern) will also receive a free, 3 month subscription to a BookBuzzr Author Pro account valued at $23.37. Download and read Shelley’s free PDF report called, “Guest Blogging Success for Authors.” Shelley Hitz […]
3 Ways to Market Your Book to iPhone Users
There are millions of iPhones in use all over the world. iPhone users are usually quite enthusiastic about their devices. They surf the web, check email, play games and of course buy and read books on their devices. Now as book-marketers, if you can figure out a way to engage with this audience, you stand […]
iPad, the New Challenge to Indie Authors
Guest Expert: Joel Friedlander Recently the Museum of Modern Art in New York announced the launch of its MoMa Books app for the iPad. MoMA Books is a free download that allows users to buy the museum’s e-books from inside the app. Only four books are available now, but the museum’s spokesperson Hannah Kim, says […]
Market your Book using Apple’s iLife and iWork
Guest Expert: Kevin Cullis How authors can use Apple technology like the iPad, iPhone, iPod to market their books While I was writing my book I came upon a tele-seminar with Jack Canfield, author of the Chicken Soup series, who stated that 10 percent of an author’s effort is in writing their book, the other 90 […]
Why you need the new Facebook Fan Page Widget from BookBuzzr
A Facebook fan page (aka Public Profile) has become one of the most basic tools for authors to engage with their audience and find new readers. Almost every author that is serious about engaging with his or her readers has one. If you don’t have a Facebook fan page and you are a reasonably famous […]
‘Tweeting’ To Publicize Your Book
Guest Expert: Scott Lorenz Congratulations, you’ve written a book. Good for you! Now, do you think you can use 140 characters to successfully promote it? After all, what good is your book if no one (except your family) reads it? Twitter is a great tool to utilize while shamelessly promoting your book. As with most […]
How to Share Your BookBuzzr AuthorPage Widget on Your Facebook Fan Page
Check out the latest version of the AuthorPage Widget here – https://bookbuzzr.com/blog/book-marketing/how-to-install-the-new-bookbuzzr-authorpage-widget/ The first version of the BookBuzzr Widget worked flawlessly with Facebook. You simply clicked on the Facebook icon inside the widget, followed a few prompts and you’d have your book widget appearing on your Facebook profile. The instructions for this were presented […]
How to Become a Top-Ranked Book in the Kindle Store?
BookBuzzr Author Pro subscriber – Michael Hicks writes books in the science fiction & fantasy genre. I was pleased to see Michael Hicks figure in the top 3 books on the Kindle store just behind Ender’s Game which is one of my all-time favourite books. So, it is with great pleasure and pride, that we […]
Saying Yes to Learning as Much as Possible About Online Book Marketing
Guest Expert: Phyllis Zimbler Miller You’re written a book – or two or three – and you’ve probably put blood, sweat and tears into making this as good a book as you possibly can. Now you want people to read this book, don’t you? Then you must be willing to put blood, sweat and tears […]
The Art of Suggestion
Guest Author: P.I. Barrington You’ve sold your book or series of books, contracts are signed sealed and delivered, and your manuscripts revised with helpful suggestions from your editor. What’s next? If your publisher is an ebook publisher, you may be receiving what can be the most frustrating and most fun email attachment ever. Yes it’s […]
Book Marketing in the iWorld (aka The Apple Universe)
Towards the end of 2008, author David Carnoy released an iPhone app of his book – Knife Music. Unfortunately (for Apple), the application was banned on the grounds that the content was too racy and objectionable. This resulted in a firestorm of news articles from major blogs. For example CNET wrote – “In its rejection […]