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10 Reasons Why You Should Create an Audiobook

When you write a book or ebook, you should also create an audiobook out of your book. Creating an audiobook is incredibly important for fiction, poetry, business nonfiction, self-help nonfiction, history, memoirs, and related titles. Audiobooks could also be very effective for children’s books where children can read along with your book as they listen […]

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Amazon.com Sales Statistics and Tips

This page features recent statistics about Amazon.com along with some tips on how to sell more via Amazon.com (9/15). 44 million people use Amazon’s Prime membership program (Consumer Intelligence Research Partners). That number is now more than double (2/19). Amazon’s conversion rate among it’s Prime members is 74% (Millward Brown Digital). Tip: One reason selling […]

How to Encourage Your Readers to Write Book Reviews

Here’s the text of a document that novelist Jim Misko sends out to buyers to encourage them to write book reviews of his novel on four major websites. Check it out. Here is the review I wrote on each website: I really enjoyed reading this novel. It kept me up several nights reading it when I […]

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Neil Ostroff on Kindle Direct Publishing and Twitter

Niel Ostroff, author of the novels Silent Invasion and Drop Out, has just written a blog post on The Book Marketing Network where he describes the effects of just one tweet from Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing. As he notes in the blog post: When you’re as active on writer’s sites as I am, you occasionally receive what […]