Archive for the 'Publishing' Category

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 [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

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 “.” [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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?

Steve Weber has a great article on getting Free Exposure for your niche book on Amazon.com Regular bookstores – even the huge ones with 100,000 titles and an espresso machine – can only hold so many books. Highly specialized titles cannot be found. This is due to the physical limitations shelf space and the cost [...]

Steve Weber has written a great article about using a website for book marketing. I think he’s right. If you’ve got the discipline to type out a coherent book that’s actually good enough to sell, you’ve got the skills to market your book worldwide very cost effectively and sell it yourself or through vendors like [...]

I got an email today from Michelle Dunn a lady who got her start in home based debt collections. Now she’s writing about the business. She’s using a Cable Access TV show to promote her book and evidently a different author per week is using the show as well. Got a book you want to [...]