Book sales fall for self-published ebooks, in particular. But Why? After years of steady growth, ebook sales for indie authors have started to hit a problem. The most recent data from Author Earnings in their latest quarterly report gives ample proof of the drop off in self-publishing sales and earnings. While the data is clear, the…
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An Amazon book review cannot be posted for free ebooks? Correct. You might have missed this very quiet yet extremely nasty change to Amazon book review policies. If you are still giving away free Kindle ebooks in the hope of gaining new reviews, then you might want to reconsider. The new Amazon review rules If you…
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Old-fashioned self-publishing is definitely not out of fashion. You might think that self-publishing is only about Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, ebooks, and social media. It’s also easy to believe that the only way to succeed is to buy Facebook Ads or Bookbub slots. Yet it’s easy to forget that many authors succeeded at self-publishing…
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Media exposure of rampant Google Books and ebook piracy has been going on for so long now. One would think that Google could have taken some simple remedial measures by now. But no, judging from this article in the NYT, Rousting the Book Pirates From Google, not a lot has changed. Google is still doing very…
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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. But in some ways, self-publishing was always a train wreck waiting to happen. Although there has been no crashing noise and screaming sirens as yet, all the signs point to the fact that self-publishing is losing its steam. In recent and not-so-recent times, several signals have turned…
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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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If you are preparing to publish a book, editing and proofreading your manuscript can be a laborious and time-consuming task. But you can make it easier to catch mistakes, such as spelling, punctuation, formatting, and typographical errors, by following a few basic proofreading tips. Grammar apps and tools can do some of the heavy lifting…
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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. Like all published authors, you likely post at least a few links to your book for…
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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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