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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Book Marketing: ‘Do You Know Where You’re Going To’ Is Not Only A Diana Ross Song
Guest Author: Emily Hill Whether one is a traditionally published author, or an IndieAuthor, the realization is soon reached that ‘nowadays’ book marketing lies squarely in the author’s lap if one is going to reach their readership potential. Any time I use the word ‘nowadays’ I enclose it in quotes because the original mention of […]
Book Marketing Tips: What Works, What Doesn’t
Guest Author: Rai Aren As an author, your success is ultimately in your own hands. We all have limited time, and that time must be split between writing and book marketing, amongst other things. Deciding how to spend that marketing time to get the best return on our investment is a critical success factor for […]
The Extreme Power of Social Networking & Digital Publishing
Bringing Great Authors To the Literary Realm Guest Author: Amy Lignor In 2007, as we all know, Amazon came out and launched an ‘e-reader.’ Many thought this was a joke, but I can honestly say that there is no one laughing now. Digital publishing and branding have become the ultimate ways to get ahead, or […]
5 Free and Easy Ways to Become a Savvy Author
Guest Expert: Dana Lynn Smith As book authors, we need to learn about a number of topics on an ongoing basis: the craft of writing our book topic or genre the publishing business our target audiences how to promote books Here are five free and easy ways to stay up to date and expand your […]
How to be a Chartbuster on the Kindle Store (An Interview With Angela White – Author of The Survivors)
We recently discovered that one of our Author Pro Subscribers had broken into the top 5 on the Kindle store. While these lists change constantly, it is still a moment to savor if you are an indie author. Especially when you notice that your book is ranked ahead of a mega author such as Stephen […]