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A book landing page is a standalone web page designed with the singular purpose of getting visitors to take an action. For authors, of course, the action is to buy your book. The main features of a landing page are, by design, very few. There are no headers, sidebars, footers, widgets, or any other distraction…
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A plain text book description is hardly eye-catching, so to make it stand out, you can add text format improvements. Hidden deep in Amazon’s KDP help section is a page titled “Supported HTML for Amazon Book Descriptions.” It might not sound very exciting, and it may be a bit daunting for those without an understanding of…
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When you prepare images for ebooks or websites, you should always compress them to make the file size as small as possible. But compressing images doesn’t mean reducing their size dimensions. Image compression decreases the file size but maintains the image’s original physical dimensions. This process strips the image of unnecessary embedded data and adjusts…
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Sharing book covers on social media can be problematic. A book cover is usually portrait, but we live in a landscape world of social media images. Have you noticed that your book cover image or Kindle cover gets cropped on popular social media sites and platforms like Facebook and X (Twitter)? It is a big…
Many writers now use a self-hosted WordPress blog to earn extra income from content marketing, books, and advertising. A WordPress sandbox is the best way to protect your income. WordPress is a powerful blogging platform. But the vast number of useful features, themes, and plugins, require good website management skills and basic security knowledge to…
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Every author has book links on their blogs and websites. But can you make much better use of them by using smarter cover image book buy links? Adding images of your book covers is the best way to promote your books on your website or blog. Most authors know how to add image widgets to…
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Do you know that you can add pictures and images to ebooks? You can, and it is very simple. The easiest way to add images in ebooks is by using Microsoft Word or almost any word processor. Your images can be in color. But depending on what device a reader uses, your images may change…
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Why should you write evergreen content? Because it can stay relevant for years. If you are an author, you already know that your blog is vital to your chances of success. But writing blog posts every day and trying to be topical is a lot of hard work and very time-consuming. If you write blog…
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Just Publishing Advice readers often ask for more information about how to embed links into text and images. This is an essential skill for authors because any form of book promotion requires good-looking links. In a previous post, I wrote about adding better-looking links. But it didn’t include a step-by-step process for how to embed…
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This article is a short step-by-step guide on how to format an ebook in Microsoft Word. One of the common questions authors ask me is how to get the correct formatting for an ebook for Kindle, Smashwords, or Draft2Digital. While many authors might think that it is sometimes difficult to get a manuscript passed by…
