eBook Marketing tips, ideas, resources, and success stories.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
http://traffic.libsyn.com/socialmediamarketing/SocialMediaMarketing-017-12-11-30.mp3 In this episode of his Social Media Marketing podcast, Michael Stetzner interviews Michael Hyatt, author of Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World as well as former publisher at Thomas Nelson Publishers. How to blog as successfully as Michael Promote older posts. One of the tactics he uses is to bulk upload and schedule […]