Despite Amazon’s paid book review clean-out after the revelations by John Locke about paying for book reviews, nothing has changed at all. Well, apart from the fact that Amazon deleted a lot of honest ones during their cull at the time. Amazon did not take much more than token action against paid book reviews back then.…
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SEO for ebooks, books, and authors is a term that probably makes most writers shudder at the thought. Isn’t SEO technical and complicated? No, it isn’t, and it’s an indispensable part of digital marketing. SEO for authors is quite a straightforward content marketing strategy. With a little bit of time spent improving your SEO, you…
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Free Kindle ebooks sell ebooks in the end through a complex algorithm that Amazon uses to calculate an individual ebook’s sales rank. In simple terms, each free ebook that is downloaded counts towards the ebook’s sales ranking. Amazon does not give precise details on its Free book promotions page, apart from this broad explanation. “The…
Using free images from the Internet in a blog post is as easy as doing a quick Google Image Search. But how do you know if you can legally or at least responsibly use Internet images online on your blog or social media? Is the image copyright protected or not? Images with watermarks or a…
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Open publishing would be the obvious choice for self-publishers if it were that easy. Unfortunately, it is not such a simple choice as both have benefits and drawbacks. Open publishing via Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing), Smashwords, or Draft2Digital, or through other self-publishing platforms, opens retail avenues to various ebook markets in many countries. You would…
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I need a book publisher! Slow down. If you are a nonfiction or fiction author, be wary of small publishers or vanity publishers offering you a quick and easy way to publish your book. I receive many messages and emails from authors who have encountered disagreements, problems, or doubts about some publishers. Unsurprisingly, the benefits of…
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How many books are on Kindle on Amazon? It’s a number I have been tracking for some years now. In particular, how many ebooks there are in the Kindle Store. The first Kindle ebooks appeared on Amazon in 2007, and in that year, there were 88,000 ebooks available. Every year since then, the number has…
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