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Category Archives: Amazon.com
DIY Audiobooks for the Self-Publishing Authors – a Review of Sources
(photocredit: mlibrarianus) How to publish audiobooks can be learned by indie authors – this is a review of places you can, just maybe, get your book published. Like ebooks, you first encounter the shadow of the Amazon Monster before any … Continue reading
Posted in amazon, Amazon.com, Internet Archive, iTunes, lulu, Podiobooks.com, smashwords
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How to Get Your Audiobook Linked Up With Your Kindle (and Hardcopy) Books on Amazon
Just had an audiobook go live… by itself. Needs links. So I was supposed to email somebody in Author Central about linking this with the Kindle version it was based on. You see, they both have the same title, just … Continue reading
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Focus on Value Instead of Delivery
Kobo’s recent piggy approach to public domain self-publishing has a lesson. And that is: Concern yourself with delivering value, not just book sales. Having to edit the meta-info on several dozen books didn’t exactly make my evening. Swallowing the fact … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon.com, E-book, feedbooks, iTunes, kobo, Microsoft, Scribd, smashwords
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Some copyright notes – where to check for public domain issues
Some places to check for copyright orphans before you give up on that great public domain book. The safest approach is to only use books printed before 1923. That limits what people want to read, though, since the language and … Continue reading
Posted in amazon, Amazon.com, createspace, Dorothea Brande, Internet Archive, kobo, lulu, public domain
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How to Make Higher Royalties From Your Books
Affiliate Book Sales can earn you even higher book royalties. Some tricks, though. The simple approach is to get your distributors to pay you affiliate sales fees on top of your royalties. None of them do it the same way, … Continue reading
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Book Marketing That Actually Works: Part 1
Books are only paid journey invitations. They are not the journey itself. “You buys your ticket and you takes your chances.” While they make income, they are not your bread-winners, despite any individual bestseller. Your income comes from the teamwork … Continue reading
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Choosing Your eBook Package Distributor – A Review
Distribly vs. JVZoo vs. BlueSnap vs. DigiResults vs. MyCommerce, etc. (Your choice of dancing affiliates…) When Leanpub showed me they weren’t publishing anything but original works, I was left finding other options for creating binders and packages – as well … Continue reading
The “News” in Self-Publishing is all DIY, not “done-for-you”.
Self-Publishing is the new model which is far more profitable than traditional-publishing lock-step hobbles. (photo: eXtensionHorses) Hobbles are used on animals to keep them from wandering. They’re usually put on the (front) feet and are uncomfortable. The model for traditional … Continue reading
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New release: How to Earn Extra Income Through Your SOHO Publishing Business
Publish. Profit. Independence. Find independence and financial freedom from one of the simplest home businesses you can start from scratch – or less… Learn Tips and Tricks to make self-publishing pay well. I fell into this by accident. There I … Continue reading
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How to Game Amazon at Their Public Domain Publishing.
(photo: aktivioslo) Winning the self-publishing race can mean gaming the Publishing Godzilla. (Meaning: you can get around Amazon’s Public Domain policies and still be legal in your agreements with them.) You might have peculiar books which Amazon will query, but … Continue reading
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Adding a New Distributor for Book Discovery
More multiple eyeballs to add to your list of book-buying promotional outlets. (photo credit: Jackie) Which means more discovery and more sales = more income. Found it when I was chasing down a new series of books which had fallen … Continue reading
Posted in amazon, Amazon.com, Goodreads, google, Internet Archive, LibraryThing, lulu, Shelfari
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Update: The Distributors Discriminate (against your profits.)
In any book sales, it’s bulk vs. originality. There’s room for both. (Photo Credit: Phil Roeder) Viable book sales depend on volume of books first, quality second, originality third. But this isn’t how the distributors see it. No reason for … Continue reading
Why Aren’t Authors Happy Publishing Their Book?
Most authors don’t make a lot of money from publishing… (Photo: Diana Brown) …and what they don’t know is killing them. I’ve done my own study of DBW’s author survey. In addition to their earlier year’s surveys, this also adds … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com, E-book, Ebook Publishing, iTunes, Kobo Inc., lulu, OverDrive, public domain, publishing
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How to Throw Away Perfectly Good Marketing and Make No Sales
What to Do When You Have Legacy Brand Mojo (Artwork: Wacky stuff) Public Domain publishing is profitable if 1) you take advantage of the brand awareness that already exists, and 2) you don’t do something stupid to make it undiscoverable. … Continue reading
How to Publish Public Domain Books and Profit Nearly Forever – Part 2
(continued from Part 1) The How-To Tips of Publishing PD and PLR to Profit From Here On Out (Photo: Simon Cunningham) Sorry I didn’t give you exact steps last time. (Of course, you can get this from my books, “Just … Continue reading
Posted in Amanda Hocking, Amazon.com, Google Play, iTunes, LibreOffice, lulu, public domain, publishing, Stephen King
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Staring an Indie SOHO Publishing Career and Making Income Immediately
You Can Publish Your Friend’s, Neighbor’s, and Strangers’ Books From Your SOHO Publishing Business… (photo:epSos .de) …with no more than the tools you already use to publish your own books. It’s long been said that there is more money selling … Continue reading
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The Numbers Racket and Amazon’s Public Domain Problems.
Amazon’s problem with public domain books are overcome by sheer numbers. (Photo: Conor Lawless) You beat Amazon at public domain publishing by having a lot of dogs hunting for you. Recently was in the middle of a test which had … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com, book, E-book, Ebook Publishing, epub, Goodreads, ibookstore, iTunes, lulu, publishing, smashwords
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How to Really Profit from Self-Publishing – Follow the Disney Route to Success
Use public domain to inspire your own works – that’s their greatest, and most profitable use. The real reason for works returning to the public domain is to inspire the next generation. The long-dead authors no longer need to profit … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon.com, book, E-book, iTunes, LibreOffice, lulu, Private label rights, public domain, publishing
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How to Sell Your Books Online, Old or New.
Selling books online doesn’t have to be hard, …but you have to know what to do when in order to be successful. (Photo: RIAN archive) Just because your book never sold well doesn’t’ mean it can’t. Just because most books … Continue reading
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 came from writing well and prolifically having multiple books for sale on all possible … Continue reading
How to Use Common Sense (and Search Engines) to Market Your Self-Published Book
(Photo: daniel julià lundgren) Developing a Common Sense Marketing Plan for Self Publishing – Why So Hard? When something “makes sense”, it’s when the logic and emotion agree. This is the point of sales, actually. And sales are hard to … Continue reading
How to Market Test Your eBook – Before You Port to Amazon
(Photo: Wikipedia) Test Your Book’s Sales Ability Before a Big Amazon Release Simple really: sell everywhere else first. Why? Because Amazon is known as the new book graveyard. That is why there are so many, many books written about how … Continue reading
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The Author as Producer – it’s not just about ebooks anymore. Case Study 04
Becoming a Media Producer: Even Better Than an Author The point I have to pause here is to tell you that you’ve just morphed into something more powerful and more creative than you’ve ever been before. Books, especially ebooks, have … Continue reading
Save Time, Save Money, Get Loved – Case Study 06
(Graphic: Coloroverboard.com) How to Save Time and Money – and Find Love. Well – link-love, anyway. We’re talking social media here. Many of these are interlinked with various programs that will send your status updates, and even post blogs for … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon.com, Backlink, Blog, E-book, google, HTML, iTunes, Market Samurai, Search engine optimization
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Is it Time for Authors to Speak Up and Sell More?
If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here The more authors get their content out to more people, the better chance they have of discovery. The more discovery, the better the book sales. I’ve long said … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon.com, Audiobook, book, iTunes, publishing, RSS
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My Google Play Books Were Killed and Replaced With Zombies
Your browser does not support the video element. Download this podcast They came for a friend of mine first, and I didn’t have anything to say. Then they came for me. Then I did want to say something, but it was … Continue reading
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The Hummingbird That Protects You From Amazon Going South
Because you never know when things will go to hell. Being prepared is a good option to keep open. You’ve probably heard this pharse or some version: “Plan your work, work your plan and always carry a spare.” Another one … Continue reading
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