Book Marketing
Book Marketing tips, ideas, resources, and success stories.
Infographic: The Wholesale Dollar Value of U.S. Book Sales
2011 book sales in the U.S. included $14 billion in trade book sales as well as $9.5 billion textbook sales and $3.3 billion professional and scholarly book sales. During 2011, ebooks accounted for $2.1 billion (about 30%) of adult fiction sales – and adult fiction sales represented 97% of all ebook sales. Source: BookStats 2012 […]
3 Steps to Doing the Work You Love and Loving the Work You Do
I have discovered that many book authors hate marketing books. That’s too bad, because it can be the most fulfilling part of the job — that interacting with potential customers, with people whose lives you can change, with readers who will respond in the most interesting ways. I have discovered that many book authors hate marketing […]
Indie Spotlight: Novelist Ricki Wilson Spotlights Other Authors
Ricki Wilson, author of Maggie’s Fall, has created a wonderful free service to feature other independent novelists. It’s called Indie Spotlight. Here is what she says about her service (http://www.rickiwilson.com/how-to-get-your-own-indie-spotlight.html): I created Indie Spotlight as a means for Indie authors to have a tool to promote their novels. Send me a jpeg of your book […]
Question: Marketing Children’s Books and Poetry Books
Author’s Question: My wife and I have several children’s books and poetry books out to the public and for sale as paperbacks at Amazon.com. We also have ebooks on Booktango.com, BookRix.com, and Smashwords.com as well as audiobooks on Meeqi.com and AXC.com. We market constantly and have contacted several newspapers asking them to carry the releases […]