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Category: BookBuzzr and Freado

Announcing a New and Improved BookBuzzr Experience for Authors

  The BookBuzzr book marketing suite offers a number of options to help you market your book. These include flipbook widgets, social media scheduling tools, Amazon reports, giveaway options and more. We're now making it easier than ever before to access all of these options with a new icon based book marketing home page. Check out the screenshots from the new interface below! The new dashboard makes it easier than ever to access all of your favorite BookBuzzr features:       ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Vikram Read more [...]

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 [...]

Why You Should Participate in the Hunger Games Fan Festival on Freado.com

The Hunger Games Fan Festival (THGFF) on Freado is an online celebration of the Hunger Games trilogy where fans of the series create quizzes and word games to win free Hunger Games merchandise. It started on April 10th and ends on April 30th 2012. We’re seeing a huge amount of interest from fans of in this festival with over 60 Hunger Games related quizzes and word games being created in 3 days. If you are an author catering to the Young Adult or Teen market, this festival offers Read more [...]

How to Market Your Book During the Hunger Games Festival on Freado.com

The Hunger Games Festival on Freado.com is an online book festival for fans of the Hunger Games trilogy with over 30 prizes to be won in 21 days. The festival is being conducted by BookBuzzr to draw the attention of fans of the Hunger Games universe and showcase the books of our participating authors in a fun environment. If you are targeting the Young Adult, Mysteries and Thrillers, General Fiction and Romance markets this is an excellent book marketing opportunity for you. As a BookBuzzr Read more [...]

Announcing the New Landing Page Widget Technology from BookBuzzr

At BookBuzzr, we’ve been working for over 2 years with thousands of authors with just one goal in mind – get them to find more readers and sell more books through the use of innovative technologies. Our research showed that one of the major challenges an author faces is in grabbing the attention of their blog and website visitors and getting them to take a desired action. So we’ve come up with a nifty little new technology called the Landing Page Widget. What is a Landing Page Widget? A Read more [...]

Why the Amazon KDP Select DOES NOT Affect BookBuzzr Authors

UPDATE - FEB 5, 2012 We've received an email from an author who received an email directly from Amazon mentioning that it is okay to put up an excerpt of your book. Specifically, the email says, "You may offer a sample, excerpt or teaser of your KDP Select-enrolled book on your website, as long as it doesn't include a substantial portion of your book's content. Up to about 10% of the book's content is a reasonable amount." Continue reading for a full analysis of the issue. What is KDP Select? KDP Read more [...]

Do the Number of Facebook Fans on Your Fan Page Matter?

An author recently asked the following question on the BookBuzzr Pro Authors Forum: What kind of impact does the number of Facebook fans have on your book sales? To answer this question let's do a thought experiment: Consider two authors of the same genre, both of whom are equally unknown to you. Let's call the authors Joe and Jill. Joe has 24 fans on his Facebook fan page. Jill has 2000 fans. Assuming you've got just 5 minutes to investigate one of these authors' books, whose book are Read more [...]

How to Create a Viral QuickQuiz

Some of you may already know about the new viral book marketing technology from BookBuzzr named QuickQuiz. This book marketing technology can be extremely powerful when used in the right way. This article gives you a few guidelines on how to create a QuickQuiz game that gets you the best returns on the time that you spend creating it. 1. Choose a topic that: Is relevant to your book's topic Resonates with your readers Read more [...]

Drumroll Please … The Next Generation of Facebook Marketing is Here!

The problem with today’s Facebook fan pages So you’re an author with a Facebook fan page. You’ve got book trailers, polls, quizzes, photo and writing contests running on your page. You’ve even got a few hundred “Facebook Likes” for your page. And yet your book sales are not going up. You then compare yourself to popular authors with tens of thousands of Fans on their Facebook fan pages. And you wonder what they are doing that you’re not doing. Here’s what’s happening. If you Read more [...]