Guest Expert: Teresa Morrow Your goal is to sell your book, right? However understanding the goals for your book will also be instrumental in your long term promotion efforts. Determining your goals will give you the measurement of where your best efforts will be beneficial. Is your book going to be a connections tool, business supplement […]
How to effectively publish and promote your books to iPad and iPhone owners
Guest Author: Piotr Kowalczyk Users of devices with Apple’s iOS mobile operating system (iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch) are a very attractive group of potential readers. There are two major reasons: 1. iOS is a very versatile system, allowing the author to distribute books via different sets of tools and channels. 2. iOS users are […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
5 ways technology is making self-publishers more powerful
Guest Author: Piotr Kowalczyk If you decide to self-publish an e-book, you’ll become more powerful than you think. You can do it with a help of tools and services available online, to a large degree, for free. That means your computer can become your publishing house. Certainly, technology will not write a book for you, […]
Spring 2011 Book Fairs and Book Festivals Authors & Book Lovers Should Attend
Guest Expert: Scott Lorenz The winter and spring seasons are great times of the year for book fairs and festivals. Authors can combine a little travel with a little book marketing and book promotion. Book fairs are wonderful places to interact with fellow authors, publishers, network with book industry leaders, locate a book publicist or […]