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How Authors Can Use Kindle for the Web

In September last year Amazon introduced a new tool, Kindle for the Web, which allows users to read and share first chapters of books without leaving a web browser.

In addition to a good-looking preview interface, there are two useful features: sharing and embedding. The latter one is a very good, yet underestimated tool which can be used in many ways by authors who publish their books at Amazon.

Before I’ll list benefits and explain how to embed the preview in a blog, I’d like to point out to one very important fact. Despite the name, Kindle for the […]

Piotr Kowalczyk2011-06-08T15:28:28+02:00June 8th, 2011|Categories: Resources|

My Realities or “How to Market Your Book or Watch it Die”

Today is my new novel’s publishing day, so I thought I’d write about the marketing it took to get here.

I won’t bullshit you. The publishing industry is changing fast, and what to do is confusing. Like a bar magnet, the industry has two strong poles: traditional publishing and self-publishing. If you’re antsy for what to do, skip over the following history. If you don’t know the history, it’s worth reading and understanding. A few months back, I wrote about marketing a literary book. This is more inclusive.

HISTORY

Traditional publishing is the way things have gone, more or less, […]

Christopher Meeks2011-05-18T12:41:48+02:00May 18th, 2011|Categories: Lead Story, Resources|

Ebook Authors: Do you really want to be an old time author?

Do you really want to be an old time author and publish your book traditionally or do you want to be an eBook author and self-publish your content on-line? That’s the question.

An old time author! Are you one of them? You know the traditional author that has beat his head against publisher’s front doors for a long time and hasn’t gotten in. Or the writer that creates good content but has to do all his own marketing and his book is just not flying off the shelves. Or the one who has heard about ebooks but is not tech-savvy […]

James Moushon2019-02-18T12:20:51+02:00May 18th, 2011|Categories: Resources|Tags: Amazon News and Tips, Goodreads Articles, Smashwords Tips and Articles|

Ebook Authors: 17 Great Information Sources

I have been asked several times this month what I think are the best current sources of information for the eBook author. I think research is a key element in an indie’s quest for success so I spend a lot of time reading blogs and books on publishing and writing.

I did a little research on my research and this is what I came up with. These are my favorites. You may not agree or I have left a good blog out but at least this list could be a starting point for the would-be author.

I have over 100 […]

James Moushon2020-02-21T05:59:56+02:00May 2nd, 2011|Categories: Resources|

Free Tools For Authors From Ebook Friendly

Some of you already know that I founded Ebook Friendly – a special kind of e-bookstore addressed to those readers who are aware of distractions the web brings and want to avoid them at the stage of browsing for books. Because reading is all about being focused, opposite to Internet – which is all about being distracted.

Reader friendly interface is one part of the proposition.

As a self-publisher I also want to make this site a place where great books from self-published authors can be easily discovered. There is no better way to do it than help the […]

Piotr Kowalczyk2011-04-28T10:06:45+02:00April 15th, 2011|Categories: Lead Story, Resources|Tags: Amazon News and Tips, Book Promotion Articles|

The Myth of Self-Publishing, Part 1

I can only comment as someone who writes to get people to read what he writes, but doesn’t do a good job of selling his writing. Reading about the great success of Amanda Hocking should make me jealous, but it has the opposite effect. I read about her success, and wish her well, the way I wished Jennifer Anniston well when Brad left her for Angelina. Amanda has become unreal to me, a celebrity among other celebrities, while I’m still all too real for my own good. Brad may leave Angelina for Amanda for all I know. It is so […]

Neil Crabtree2011-04-15T20:02:51+02:00April 15th, 2011|Categories: Resources|Tags: Amanda Hocking, Book Reviews|

5 creative book marketing and promotion tips with fiverr.com

Two nights ago I became addicted to the website www.fiverr.com. If you haven’t heard of fiverr, it’s a website that allows people to offer to do a variety of things for five bucks. There are hundreds of different kinds of things people are willing to do – and at $5 per job, many of them are fantastic bargains. Here are a few of the more interesting things I’ve found and am testing in my book promotion and marketing:

1) Improve your PR-rank. If you have a blog or website, it’s important to have a lot of high quality links […]

Derek Murphy2011-04-15T19:48:05+02:00April 15th, 2011|Categories: Resources|Tags: Book Marketing Advice and Tips, Book Promotion Articles, Book Reviews|

A new resource for indie-authors? Foozago books and the indie book event.

I came across Foozago Books: Indies while searching for indie book stores for my self-published non-fiction book. Then I came across them again on the discussion of Joel Friedlander’s (The Book Designer) post indie bookstores vs. indie publishers.

Basically they are a little amazon, but you have to print and send them your books. They’ll list them and give you 60%. Joel and others point out that this isn’t a great way to make money – and it isn’t, not in the long term. But in the beginning, it isn’t about money, it’s about exposure. It’s about being everywhere. And […]

Derek Murphy2011-04-06T14:21:41+02:00April 6th, 2011|Categories: News, Resources|Tags: Book Promotion Articles|