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How to Publish (and Sell) Your Next Book Back-Ass-Ward - 7 Steps to Breakthrough Success.
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Publishing News, Reviews. How to Publish (and Sell) Your Next Book Back-Ass-Ward - 7 Steps to Breakthrough Success. If you cannot see the audio controls,. Listen/download the audio file here. With all the false "conventional wisdom" out there, it's surprising that you'd be reading something like this. I mean, all that stuff is supposed to work, isn't it? Well, not too. There's a reason some authors sell and some don't - it's audience. Not "platform" - Audience. Real promotion means building your audience.
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How to Market Test Your eBook - Before You Port to Amazon
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Publishing News, Reviews. How to Market Test Your eBook - Before You Port to Amazon. Test Your Book's Sales. Ability Before a Big Amazon. Simple really: sell everywhere else. Because Amazon is known as the new book graveyard. That is why there are so many, many books written about how to "crack" Amazon, how to "make it big" on Amazon", "make a killing", all that sort of stuff. Amazon, simply, is the 900lb. gorilla in the room, but also a complete pain in the butt. The simple strategy to this is to. I've ...
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A Comparison of Distributors – Who's on First?
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Publishing News, Reviews. A Comparison of Distributors – Who's on First? Figured I owed you a no-holds-barred, warts-and-all review of the main distributors - from my experiences with them. The aggregators all charge something to post your ebook to the various distributors. Lulu is the cheapest, at 10%, Smashwords at around 15%. Everywhere else is a lot more. Some are outright rip-offs preying on the naive. I include Lulu and Smashwords below, the rest are distributors. That doesn't affect local Lulu ebo...
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Getting Your Book Discovered, Finding More Sales, Having More Fun
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Publishing News, Reviews. Getting Your Book Discovered, Finding More Sales, Having More Fun. And publishing Your Book isn't even half your job - the rest is getting it discovered so it sells and pays you back. The third leg of the stool every author sits on is Discovery. (The first two being Writing, and Publishing. Some people call this Marketing. The point is that people have to find. Your book in order to buy. It, so they have to discover. After Writing and Publishing comes Discovery. The trick is tha...
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How I Fouled up Self-Publishing My New Book Series - Case Study 10
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Publishing News, Reviews. How I Fouled up Self-Publishing My New Book Series - Case Study 10. And what you can do to avoid this mistake). Yes, I know - Fouled up isn't the same as Fowl, which isn't a cute chickie.). Your browser does not support the audio element. OK, I got busy getting some hard-cover books. Done up - mainly because Lulu had a 25% discount which ended last night. (And that mostly paid for shipping.). The problem was, I screwed up with the self-serving links in them. It's true that Google.
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An Author's Guide to Memberships - How to Sell Books Online
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Publishing News, Reviews. An Author's Guide to Memberships - How to Sell Books Online. Writers: Get Your Books. Selling Online Better - Build a Membership. I've long said (over and over) that the key to any author earning real income. Writing well and prolifically. Having multiple books for sale on all possible distributors. Building a list by getting your audience to give you their emails. After I got an independent income from my book sales. I started looking up how to really. And, not so funny enough,...
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When Your Case Study Becomes the Next Case Study (11)
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Publishing News, Reviews. When Your Case Study Becomes the Next Case Study (11). If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here. This could have happened to you - or maybe not. The scene was this: I was listening to some podcasts. While working (as radio these days is nearly as bad as the TV news. And got inspired to use this fancy mic I had gotten a few months back. On a MAC. (Could have done that on my Linux box. As well - or Windows, if I was into self-torture.). But it was ...
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How to Edit a Book Into Shape and Stay Sane
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Publishing News, Reviews. How to Edit a Book Into Shape and Stay Sane. The Route to Producing a Book Requires You Organize to Maintain Your Sanity. This is always the rub. Editing is what most writers hire out. It's also known as proofing. But it's a craft on it's own, well worth the time - even if it's never paid what it deserves. The project at hand is being compiled from 30 essays from other (public domain) author's works. Those essays themselves add up to a course and hopefully would start a movement.
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Self Publishing: Employing Emissaries and Spies for More Profit
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Publishing News, Reviews. Self Publishing: Employing Emissaries and Spies for More Profit. If you cannot see the audio controls,. Listen/download the audio file here. Spying is probably the oldest profession (well, excepting maybe one. The most widely reprinted book on warfare ( Sun Tzu's Art of War. Has a whole chapter on spies and spying. For corporations, it's big business, and a big part of their budget. For marketers, it's called "market research" and "demographics". Any brick-and-mortar shop owner ...
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How to Publish a Dozen Books in an Afternoon.
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Publishing News, Reviews. How to Publish a Dozen Books in an Afternoon. An afternoon's work can get your next dozen books available to millions within 3 days. This came home to me today as I (finally) started publishing another batch of books I'd been polishing. Of course, it didn't go smoothly - as I had to stop and get yet another tool out over and again. So I wrote it up for you. Here's the simple book-publishing steps and tools you'll need and in what in order:. 0 Work your books up in advance. Which...
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