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Top 4 Book Marketing Strategies for 2026

Create an Incredible Book Marketing Plan for the Coming Years This video is one of three videos created by NotebookLM by Google using the 10 Ways to Market Your Books report generated by the Comet browser from Perplexity AI as input. I’ll share the other two videos in the next few days. It’s interesting to […]

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First 500 Book Sales

You Don’t Have to Be a Starving Book Author

Here’s a startling fact: There are more that 2,000 self-published books published everyday in the U.S. Most, sadly, fail to make even $100! With so much competition it’s hard to stand out. Do you really want to make a difference? And some book sales? Learn how to sell more books. And make more money with your book […]

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Book Marketing Tips from the fans of Oprah

Book Marketing Tips from Oprah Fans

Here are a few book marketing tips from the readers of Oprah Magazine (May 2015). We cannot change the direction of the wind, but we sure can change the direction of our sails. — Michelle Lorusso John’s Book Marketing Tip: We can’t control the outside influences that might affect how and when we market our books, […]

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What’s In It for Booksellers?

Question: What’s in it for booksellers? Over at The Book Marketing Network, I got the question, “What’s in it for booksellers?” In other words, why would bookstores buy any author’s book, especially one that is self-published? John’s Bookselling Response What’s in it for booksellers? Simple. Customers. That’s why they’ll carry your book. If you want […]

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