If you don’t know Angela Wilson’s site, check it out. What makes Market My Novel particularly useful is its emphasis on internet marketing, as well as straight book marketing. We’ve covered the similarities between book marketing and search engine optimization […]
The problem is that print on demand books will still face some of the same problems they’re facing today. The problem with POD currently is not that the […]
Take-Charge Living arrived via amarketingexpert.com, a publicity firm that represents self-published books, as well as other authors – signifying that this book is a more serious entry than your average self-published book. The book has a fair amount to recommend it, but it has some problems as well.
The bad: first off, though the book is represented by a PR firm, the character is decidedly unprofessional. It has that blurred effect that is common to some self-published printing. This is surprising, as the book is part of iUniverse’s Star program – which requires that the book is an “Editor’s […]
I don’t think it’s any accident that the publishing industry became so money-centered during the last decade. Really, the thing that affected the housing industry and the bank collapses was the result of […]
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In a strange way, self-published books are held to a higher standard than traditionally published books. Here’s what happens: a reviewer or reader receives a book and is informed that it’s self-published. The reader then reads the book looking for clues about why the book was self-published. And when you’re looking for something to criticize, you’re going to find it.
By all means, there are self-published books that should never see the light of day. But the same can be said for some traditionally published books as well. I’m not a great fan of writers like John Grisham or Dean […]
The argument can be made that even the new breed of self-publishing services does not resemble the old model of subsidy publishing – especially in terms of the amount of profit an author gets per book and the author’s ability to retain copyright. That issue aside, a place like iUniverse is commonly referred […]
It’s important to link to your book’s web page as much as possible. This isn’t just to get traffic from the pages that link to the book, but to increase the likelihood that your book’s page will come up in Google when someone plugs in a search – as inbound links increase a page’s rank. If your book’s page is housed within your website, this additional link will increase the page rank and traffic to your site. So ideally you want an author’s site to look like this:
Authorsite.com
Authorsite.com/bookpage
Authorsite.com/blog
The last two open up new ways to bring […]