Selling Your Books Online
Summary: Since I've been self-publishing and blogging for over a decade now, it's only right that you should benefit from all the hard knocks, scraped pride, and quiet cussing I've had to do in order to figure this all out. With over a dozen-dozen books published, it's pretty simple now for me to write, edit, and publish books. The next case to crack is getting them to sell better. If you're interested in some extra passive income every month, maybe there is something here for you as well. Join me on this journey...
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A Simple Marketing Strategy for Beginning Authors It came to me as a simple way to leverage all your books and explain the three-book marketing system others have alluded to. This just puts some muscle on that skeleton – and it only came to view once the study of courses was complete. Elsewhere, it’s been [...]
A Simple Marketing Strategy for Beginning Authors It came to me as a simple way to leverage all your books and explain the three-book marketing system others have alluded to. This just puts some muscle on that skeleton – and it only came to view once the study of courses was complete. Elsewhere, it’s been [...]
Hub and Spoke Marketing For Books On tallying up all the distributors I’ve been able to find, one point emerged: there are distributors at every level and for every version of your book, who want to promote your book for free. That is remarkable, as it shows you can get paid for every type of [...]
The Care and Feeding of Book Distributors Like the first rule of publishing, that books are containers of ideas (and not one set format) book distributors have to be studied with the idea they are really just paid lead generators with their own buying audiences. While you feed the distributors with what they want (or [...]
Got Your Ears On? Here’s Great Audiobook News… What changes a couple of years make… There is finally an alternative to ACX, which allows an actual improvement in audiobook quality and payment to authors/talent. There is a caustic critique of ACX/Audible which recommends only CDBaby. [https://janefriedman.com/acx-alternative-2/ ] In this, you are using CDBaby to reach [...]
BitTorrent Bundles Becomes the Ultimate Book Distributor I’ve spent some time discussing (and dissing) Tim Ferris for having to promote his work on BitTorrent because he published through CreateSpace instead of Lulu. But you can’t fault the results. As a note, we don’t know how much he spent on promotion to get that. Which means [...]
Because you never know when things will go to hell. Being prepared is a good option to keep open. You’ve probably heard this pharse or some version: “Plan your work, work your plan and always carry a spare.” Another one you should also know is: “Never build your house on rented land.” These both describe [...]
(Soon available as ebook on Amazon ) Why Social Media is turning their viewers into Zombies and what you can do about it. (Warning: Talking about zombies may be controversial. Talking about social media as enablers may be controversial. Talking about social media enabling zombie outbreaks is definitely controversial.) Zombies aren t just fiction. They aren t [...]
Is the Content Inc. Model a Good Fit for Author-Publishers? Short answer is “yes.” Long answer is “depends.” Depends if you get what he’s saying, understand it, and put it to work. The bottom line is that author-publishers are content merchants. They deal in content, no matter what form it’s in. Like screenwriters and song [...]
(Click here to download audio.) Publishing The Backwards Book The Scene You Face The situation that most starting authors have (and I’ve seen the same thing you’ve run into) is: How the hell do you get from here to there? You hear and (are constantly told) about these outrageously successful authors. But only a very [...]
(Download this audio – Click Here.) You may not believe this, but the Classics you have read may be just as alive as you… (Considering authors as midwives to the life contained in a book.) Of course, we can call books “metaphors” for human existence, ways to get lessons from our subconscious. But what if [...]
The Four Whys and Four Hows of Successful Self-Publishing After now over a decade of self-publishing, I thought to give you some hints about what you’re up against. It isn’t all that pretty, but it can be made to work. The first point is to quit taking anything seriously which is going around about this [...]
Reviving Frankenstein: Making PLR Publishing Profitable PLR is long from dead, although the amount of really bad stuff out there can make you wish it was. It still sells. I have a certain set of PLR ebooks which continue to sell through iTunes, Nook, and Kobo. (Amazon won’t take them, and GooglePlay is dead to [...]
New Books and Tools to Improve Your Writing …and lots of stuff to help you publish better, faster, easier. Hi there , I haven’t talked to you directly for some time, but thought to give you a heads up. Since I recently discovered StreetLib (see link below) I’ve been getting all my earlier works rounded [...]
How to Publish Public Domain Books and Profit Nearly Forever – Part 4 The way to market public domain books is to add value. You want to leverage all possible versions of each title in order to generate a rising tide of income. This is no longer just creating a “better marketed” book, but one [...]
