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Category Archives: International Standard Book Number
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
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
Market Research Starts With Amazon?!?
Indie SOHO Publishing needs market research to succeed. Start with Amazon. (graphic: Chris Piascik) Why? Because they will tell you if your book as even a fighting change of breaking into the big time. While Amazon has been consistently shrinking … Continue reading
Solving Competition and Making Profits by Indie Publishing
Competition Can Be Both Good and Bad For Indie Publishing – Particularly With Public Domain Books (photo: Ronel Reyes) Some ebook distributors don’t want you competing with other titles, others encourage it. Amazon and Google seem to be at different … Continue reading
Track and Prosper – Bitly Redirect Links
Harnessing the Power of UTM Parameters with Bitly – Bitly | Blog You need to track which of your books is giving you link-love. Particularly, which ones are generating leads, which from from the Look Inside. Yes, the primary reason … Continue reading