Guest Expert: Dana Lynn Smith Reviews and recommendations in online bookstores like Amazon.com and BN.com are a powerful selling tool. Many shoppers read book reviews before making a purchase, and reviews can be the tipping point that causes them to click the Buy button. In fact, a study by the Yale School of Management concluded […]
Marketing on Amazon? I Thought They Just List My Book
Guest Expert: Aggie Villanueva Amazon is much more than just the world’s largest bookstore. As an author you’ve made sure your book is listed on Amazon.com because everyone in the writing/promotion fields says you must. So what’s the big deal? You’ve actually made more sales to family and friends on your own than through Amazon. […]
Amazon Book Marketing: A Social Networking Experience
Guest Expert: D’vorah Lansky, M.Ed. and Author of Book Marketing Made Easy: Simple Strategies for Selling Your Nonfiction Book Online. When you think of Amazon, the online “800 pound gorilla” of a bookstore what comes to mind? Do you think about the great price you are going to get on your book purchases? Do you […]
How Amazon Recommendation Algorithms Help Sell Your Book
Guest Expert: Joanna Penn A few weeks ago my friend Joel Friedlander sent me an email (partly shown left) that he had been sent by Amazon which recommended my novel Pentecost next to John Connolly whose supernatural mysteries I really love to read myself. I was absolutely overjoyed by the news! I put it on […]
If Your Book Is Available on Amazon Do You Have an Author Page?
Guest Expert: Phyllis Zimbler Miller If you are traditionally published and your publisher hasn’t done this for you, or if you are self-published and didn’t know to do this yourself, take advantage now of an Amazon author marketing opportunity by creating an Amazon Author Page. I just self-published my 86-year-old father’s comedy short story book […]
The Great Benefits of E-Reader Publishing
Guest: Bethany Ramos The publishing industry is definitely changing, and today, these great changes center around e-books. Even the hottest bestsellers on the shelves are being formatted to e-readers so that they can be enjoyed by readers anywhere on devices like the Kindle. Speedy Publishing Process Perhaps one of the greatest benefits to e-reader publishing […]
Kindle Singles, New “Short” Publishing
Guest Expert: Aggie Villanueva Until recently authors had two choices, write it short enough to fit into a magazine/newspaper/blog or long enough for a whole book. Kindle Singles changes all that for major publishing. Beginning 2011 it’s a store unto itself. Amazon explained in this October 12, 2010 news release, “…in many cases, 5,000 to […]
How to Increase Your Book’s Amazon Rank
Author Susan Bischoff who has a subscription to BookBuzzr Author Pro and is giving away over 30 free copies of her e-book on Freado.com has seen her book’s Amazon rank increase substantially over the last few months. We got in touch with Susan and asked her for some tips that she may want to share […]
TGIF Book Marketing Tips: Ten Ways to Sell Books On Amazon
Guest Expert: Carolyn Howard-Johnson Know this: I hate talking about book sales for a whole lot of reasons. The thing is today I have to talk about them because I want to to talk about Amazon ratings and I can’t talke about them without talking about selling books. You may be asking why I don’t […]