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Category Archives: lulu
The Great Amazon Suck – Why Other eBook Distributors Don’t
How to Blow-Off Any Chance at a Fan Base. (Cover: Seattle Weekly) [Rant Alert] For all the hype about Amazon, you will seldom see any fan clubs for Amazon or its execs. (Just lots of those “smiley” boxes.) That became … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Kindle, book, E-book, iTunes, Kobo Inc., lulu, Nook, public domain, publishing, self-publishing
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Perfecting Passive Income Publishing for Profit
How to Make More Than Just a Living With Profitable Passive Income Publishing. (Image: WishIKnew…) It all started out by wanting to learn how to get books I’d written published and making enough to allow me to quit my day … Continue reading
Posted in author, book launch, epub, iTunes, Kobo Inc., LibreOffice, lulu, Market Samurai, public domain, publishing
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“Edward’s First Book” – A Children’s Story About Self-Publishing.
(Just a first draft. Illustrations to follow.) – – – – Edward would wake up at night because of the voices in his head. They weren’t unpleasant voices, but they did want something. They wanted to be heard. Not just … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Kindle, book, Book cover, book launch, Goodreads, LeanPub, lulu, publishing, self-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 I Got My Financial Freedom from Publishing Books
(artwork: keep_bitcoin_real – modified) You can publish your way to financial freedom. I did. It’s a story I haven’t really told before, but probably should have. I’ve been publishing books since around 2007, according records on Lulu.com – where I … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Kindle, Assembly line, bestsellers, book sales, Bookselling, iTunes, Kobo Inc., lulu, public domain, publishing
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Rough Getting Paid – Single-book Author Income
(Photo: Ruth Sharville) Some authors have only one book in them – how do they make a living as an author? These people write and publish (or not) – then move on with their lives. Much like the old Zen … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Kindle, Business, E-book, google, iTunes, lulu, passive income, publishing
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Solving Distractions and Getting Your Book Ready – Case Study 02
(Artwork: Birger King) You have to handle distractions to finish getting your book(s) ready for publishing. It’s not just the social media. It’s life itself. I’ve gone over the successful action of working in batches, of having a proven assembly … Continue reading
Posted in affilates, amazon, Assembly line, booksales, Flickr, google, iTunes, LibreOffice, lulu, public domain, publishing, video
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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
Self Publishing: Employing Emissaries and Spies for More Profit
If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here Spying is probably the oldest profession (well, excepting maybe one other). The most widely reprinted book on warfare (Sun Tzu’s Art of War) has a whole chapter on … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Kindle, E-book, emissary, google, iTunes, lulu, publishing, redirect link, secret, self-publishing, spy
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How to Market Your Book Online – My Last Recipe
This podcast available for download. This is the (final) recipe for marketing a book online. And because of the breakthroughs below, you may not hear from me for awhile. But don’t worry, I’ll give you links at the end so … Continue reading
How to Publish 76 Books In a Year
…And Earn a 6-Figure Passive Income for Life This podcast available for download. So much for that hiatus. Since you’re one of the brilliant, charismatic followers of this blog and podcast, you know I just gave you a complete brain … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Kindle, E-book, google, iTunes, lulu, passive income, public domain, publishing, steve scott
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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
Posted in Amazon.com, livesensical, lulu, public domain, publishing, smashwords
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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
Beyond the Ebook: More, Bigger, Self-Publishing Profits
Missed Profits Following Conventional Wisdom Conventional Wisdom (which is usually 95% wrong) says you should be happy with your ebooks and how they are selling. The problem with that logic is that the biggest sellers aren’t doing that. The biggest … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Kindle, createspace, ebokos, hardback, income, lulu, paperback, profit, royalty, sweet spot
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