Book Marketing Stories

Dallas Clayton: An Awesome World of Book Marketing

Dallas Clayton, author of An Awesome Book! and other children’s books, originally self-published his first book after getting multiple rejections. His story was featured in a TV commercial for Google Chrome. The video had 186,000 views in less than 3 months. The commercial was featured on TV and Hulu, among other sites. I’m sure Dallas […]

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What Is Google AuthorRank and Why Should You Care?

AuthorRank is Google’s attempt to analyze the influence and reliability of those who write blog posts, web pages, and the like. But AuthorRank essentially became unimportant when Google+ disappeared. For the average writer, marketer or content producer, AuthorRank offers an incredible opportunity to brand yourself. Even more important for those of us who write books, […]

Carl Sagan: Books Work Magic

Carl Sagan: A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. — Carl Sagan #books #authors Click To Tweet 16 486

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Mark Coker: eBook Publishing Predictions for 2013

Mark Coker of Smashwords recently made the following predictions about ebooks and publishing for the upcoming year (2013). 1. Ebooks as a percentage of overall trade book sales in the US should hit 45%, up from what I’m estimating will probably be 30% in 2012. We’ll still continue to see ebooks take eyeballs from print […]