Last night I was reading a report by Digital Book World called What Authors Want: A Survey of Authors to Understand Their Priorities in the Self-Publishing Era – in which they surveyed nearly 5,000 authors-aspiring, self-published, traditionally published and those…
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12 Author Profile Sites to Boost Your Discoverability
Tagged with: author community, author discovery, author profiles, authordiscovery.com, book discoverability, book marketing, discoverability
Posted in Book Discovery, Book Marketing
Posted in Book Discovery, Book Marketing
All Publishing Paths Can Lead to Author Discovery
It’s been stated before that there’s never been a better time to be an author. This is largely because there are so many ways to bring your work into the world. This best epitomized by the recent post on publishing…
Posted in Book Discovery, Book Marketing
What the Turkish #OccupyGezi protests have taught me about Author Discovery
I moved to Istanbul, Turkey back in December 2012 for a job (and to research my upcoming novel). As I’ve been chronicling this new adventure for my blog: An American Author in Istanbul, I realized the importance of authors using…
Tagged with: author community, authordiscovery.com, book discoverability, book marketing, indie publishing, Omar Luqmaan-Harris
Posted in Book Discovery, Book Marketing
Posted in Book Discovery, Book Marketing
KDP Select Still Works in 2013 (or how my novel was downloaded 17,000 times in 3 days)
One of my pet-peeves is the so-called marketing expert who has no proof to show for all their wisdom, knowledge, and so-called advice. With that in mind, I felt it is only right to let you know how my latest…
Author Discovery Tip of the Week: Promote your Editor!
Independent publishing is under fire, folks. First came the fake review scandals on Amazon. Next, book critics started lamenting the rise of the authorpreneur as the death knell of publishing. And recently, James Patterson took out full-page ads to petition…
Book Trailers Don’t Increase Book Sales (but done right, they may boost Book Discoverability)
I came across an interesting article on The Four Hour Workweek site today that sparked my desire to write this week’s blog. Tim Ferriss does a great job explaining how he got 1 Million views for his video on The…
Is there a magic pricing strategy for e-books?
AD.com comments: E-book pricing is one of the pillars of Digital Book Discovery and below you will find a thought-provoking, but not very helpful to the average indie author (in my opinion), article from Digital Book World about how publishers…
Tagged with: authordiscovery.com, book discoverability, book marketing, book pricing, book reviews, bookmarketing33, Omar Luqmaan-Harris, qwantu amaru
Posted in Book Discovery, Book Marketing, Reblogs
Posted in Book Discovery, Book Marketing, Reblogs
What’s happening with the Amazon Affiliate Program – An Update from Anthony Wessel of Digital Book Today
In February 2013, Amazon announced changes to the Amazon affiliate program, via their updated Terms of Service that states: if we determine you are primarily promoting free Kindle eBooks (i.e., eBooks for which the customer purchase price is $0.00), YOU…
5 Reasons why Amazon’s acquisition of Goodreads is a match made in heaven for Author Discovery and Book Marketing
If you haven’t noticed by now, I enjoy taking the contrary point of view whenever possible. When everyone is running to the right, I invariably have to go left. It is with this spirit that I review the recent acquisition…
Why I’m All in with KDP Select
Before we get into why I’m all in with KDP Select, first let’s cover the basics. Amazon announced the Kindle Direct Publishing Select Program back in December 2011 designed to let indie authors and publishers “make money in a whole…
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