Aah summer!
Rolling waves. Warm sands. Tall cool drinks. And a great book to read!
Inspired by such a vision, we've created a new landing page widget theme which you can use for your book this summer. And judging by the fact that several authors have installed the theme on their blogs and websites even before we made this announcement it seems that this theme will be liked by many authors.
Check out the 'Summer' theme below:
*html #dvPopup_XYZ_20110418_Custom{ top:expression(eval(document.documentElement.scrollTop)) Read more [...]
Archive for: April 2012
The Book Marketing Technology Week in Review April 21 to 28
Notable blog posts, articles and happenings on the web:
Beverly Akerman has written an inspiring and instructive article about how to become an ebook sensation in the Globe and Mail.
Scott Turow, president of the Author's Guild went on CBC News and discussed Amazon’s strategy of selling bestselling e-books at a loss to tie-up a 90% share of the e-book market. This 8 minute video is worth watching to get a handle on the kind of threat that Amazon poses to the future of the publishing industry.
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Free E-Book Give-away: ’31 Day Guide to Making Money as an Affiliate’
A few days ago, I received an email from Shelley Hitz that went something like this:
"Congratulations! You've earned $ today."
Upon opening the contents, I learned that we'd earned about $20. Granted that the amount is not large. But it was still exciting since we seemed to have earned this money rather mysteriously. Upon digging into my own brain further, I remembered that I'd signed up BookBuzzr as an affiliate for Shelley Hitz's website.
Now I've got two goals:
1. I want to explore Read more [...]
How to Market Your Book Through Google Ads
So you've written your magnum opus and you want the world to beat a path to your door. You've heard so much about Google Ads and decide to try it for your book. This article shows you how.
First a Warning:
Running Google Ads is an activity that is fairly involved. If you don't know what you are doing, you could land up spending a significant amount of money with little to show for it. I once ran a campaign with advice and help from experts for an online yoga course that I had co-created and Read more [...] The Book Marketing Technology Week in Review (April 14 – 21)
Notable blog posts, articles and happenings on the web:
1. The London Book Fair was held this week and a fair amount of Twitter activity with the hash tag #lbf12 was evident. Some interesting presentations are available online such as this one from Hot Key Books - a publisher of YA books.
2. Aggie Villanueva released a new book titled Amazon Categories Created Best Sellers which I reviewed a few days ago. The book went straight to the best seller lists in both its listed categories. Read more [...]
Book Review – Amazon Categories Create Best Sellers by Aggie Villanueva
One of the best parts of my job is that I get to review books in the publishing business. Recently, I got a book review opportunity from Aggie Villanueva - an award-winning bestselling fiction & non-fiction author, author publicist, and mobile apps marketer.
This short 43 page book is titled Amazon Categories Create Best Sellers comes bundled with access to a companion site where Aggie provides persistent links to a variety of bonus articles, contests, and recommendation lists.
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Readers Use CoverMatcher to Relax!
We recently received an email from authors and Freado regulars - Brenda Woody and Steve Tindle.
They gave us feedback on the CoverMatcher game and also told us that they had made a new blog post about Freado. In the post, they write:
Steve and I love to play CoverMatcher and have won several books and gift cards from fReado. This is our way to relax right before we retire each night.
It gives us immense pleasure when we learn that readers use the CoverMatcher game in ways not originally intended Read more [...]
Hunger Games Fan Festival Twitter Contest Winner Announced
As you may know, the Hunger Games Fan Festival is happening on Freado until the 30th of April.
Before the festival began, we conducted a Twitter contest in which a number of contestants participated.
We completed the prize drawing yesterday and the winner (drum roll please!) is Stephanie Norris.
Stephanie walks away with the following:
1. 12 month free subscription to a BookBuzzr DIY Pro account.
2. A copy of The Hunger Games Collectors Edition.
Congratulations Stephanie Read more [...]
The Indie-Author Lament
If you haven’t yet seen this video take a look. It will brighten your day.
The Book Marketing Technology Week in Review (April 7 – 14)
Notable blog posts, articles and happenings on the web:
Joel Friedlander wrote up an inspiring blog post at his Book Designer blog. Read 'The Profit in Persistence', to get the "Rocky Balboa" in you to wake up and start blogging.
The Justice Department jumped directly into the fight over the future of digital books on Wednesday — and Amazon came out the winner.
And our friend at Author Marketing Experts, Penny Sansevieri blogged about The Power of a Pin: Why Pinterest Is a Game Changer.
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