Any author publishing with Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) knows about free Kindle ebook promotion. You can offer your ebook for free for five days during your ninety-day enrollment in KDP Select. Some may not know that free ebooks for Kindle have now become another little industry in itself. There are many, many sites on…
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Self-publishing is evolving and suffering from growing pains. The self-publishing train wreck was always an accident waiting to happen. Although there has been no crashing noise and screaming sirens as yet, all the signs point to the fact that the self-publishing train wreck is very close to happening. In recent and not so recent times, several…
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First-time author? You have finished publishing a book! Now What? It doesn’t matter if you have self-published or have been published by a small press or publishing house; a new book release is when writers get excited, motivated, and extremely keen to start seeing a lot of book sales roll in. Unfortunately, in their eagerness…
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There are many proofreading tips and tricks, but online tools can make your proofreading easier. If you are preparing to publish a book, editing and proofreading a long manuscript is laborious and time-consuming. However, there are ways to make the task easier and to catch mistakes such as spelling, punctuation, formatting, and typographical errors. Once…
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You can promote your book with links that are not only to your Amazon book page. When promoting your Kindle book or paperback, you promote your book with links on your website, blog, Facebook, Twitter, and many more sites. The chances are that you post at least a few links to your book for potential…
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If you are self-publishing, should you change the cover of your book? Or do you have different cover versions for each of your online retailers? From a book marketing perspective, having a range of book covers creates opportunities. You can discover which version of your book’s cover attracts the most attention and, therefore, potential book…
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Does book promotion and marketing work? Yes, because the alternative is no book promotion, which naturally doesn’t work. Measuring the results of book promotion and marketing is a very inexact science. You will be disappointed if your measure of success is 1,000’s of immediate overnight book sales. Promotion is a long-term project and requires patience…
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Beware of scam agents who prey on new authors. Publishing a book today is easy with free online self-publishing services. Or if not free, they are very cheap. However, this low-cost simplicity has made it a goldmine for shady agents and predatory publishers to deceive new authors trying to publish their books. If you want…
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The present perfect tense and its aspects are used more often in British English than in US English. It is one of the subtle distinctions between the two most spoken forms of English. This is why it is important for a writer or author to be careful. You need to maintain a consistent grammatical form,…
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Every business, whether large, small, or sideline, has expenses. One of the essential costs for authors and publishers is to spend money on book marketing. The only problem is deciding how to spend your money wisely to promote your book. It doesn’t need to be a hefty sum. But relying on success coming to you for…
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