Archive for the 'Publishing' Category

WriterLance.com has just posted a call for Health Related Articles!
If you love to write - and get paid to do so, you may want to check this out. Note: WriterLance.com lets you BID on writing projects.
I need 40 articles written for website content. While the subject matter is medical related I need the articles written [...]

Steven Weber has a good review of what he considers to be wasteful advertising dollars: a service offering paid reviews through Amazon.com’s “Book Surge” publishing service.
For $399 you can get a supposedly “big name” author to write a paid, gushing review that’s supposed to make you rich on the royalties. I wonder if you’d be [...]

Bookmark Bucks is a great way to earn extra money with your computer!

Most of the ideas for advertising specialties with the URL on it are products that cost money for the person trying to make a part-time or full time living off of these items. You could [...]

The last few days, I’ve written about the importance of getting amateur reviews (especially 5 star reviews) to help your book sell. You can read those posts here and here.
After yesterday’s post, probably most of you went… sure I’d love to get 5 Star Reviews for the cost of a book and postage! But where [...]

Yesterday I wrote about the growing importance of amateur reviews - especially 5 star reviews - at Amazon.com.
That left the question… well how do you get THOSE? Of course everybody wants them!
Here’s how.
You ask for them.
If you’ve got a book that sells on Amazon (or Barnes and Nobles for that matter) you simply identify people [...]

Steve Weber got me thinking about this and I believe he’s right.
If you’re into publishing these days, the ONE thing that will make or break your book sales will be the amateur reviews at sites like Amazon.com
The publisher is in the business of having a “stable” of well known reviewers who are popular authors themselves [...]

Dan Poynter is the guru of helping people get published.
He also offers a free service so that aspiring writers can get the real life stories they need to give their book credibility and human interest.
Here’s how to access that FREE service for aspiring writers. (Change the AT to “@” and DOT to “.” before emailing.)
NEED [...]

Payloadz.com allows entrepreneurs and publishers to sell downloadable media. If you’ve heard about it, it was likely through PayPal… their orginal and - till now - the way people paid for product.
Not any more.
Payloadz.com announces a new partnership with Google Checkout.
This is in addition to the PayPal check out system.
Payloadz.com users get additional free storage [...]

The other day I received an email telling how an author sold 6000 copies at one time of her “niche” book on animals.
Selling 6,000 copies in a year would be a dream come true for most authors.
So how does one sell 6000 at one time?
By bundling the book with another product that already has an [...]

Want to learn how to make $1,400 per month from Google Adsense? Here’s a website that’s doing that - American Desinotes - and what the webmaster learned about ad placement, ad type, and background.
What are your experiences with Google Adsense?