What is it?
An online book festival for fans of the Hunger Games trilogy with over 30 prizes to be won in 21 days. If you are a BookBuzzr Pro Author targeting the teen or YA market, this is a fantastic opportunity to find new readers for your book.
When is it?
April 10th to April 30th.
What are the prizes?
Memorabilia related to the Hunger Games universe ... things like T-Shirts, Handbags, Jewellery, and of course a beautiful Collectors Edition of the book. If you have any suggestions Read more [...]
Category: Miscellaneous
Site Outages
As many of you have noticed and pointed out, our server was not able to handle the volume of requests yesterday and went down for a few hours. We’ve now fixed the issue and are monitoring both Freado.com and BookBuzzr.com carefully. Sorry for the inconvenience caused. We’re taking steps to ensure that this does not happen again.
The Great BookBuzzr Christmas Giveaway
X-Mas is almost here and the giving spirit is all around us. We'd like to run a fun little contest and give away 10 prizes valued at over $200.
Here's how the contest works:
1. On Twitter:
Go to your twitter account and tweet one thing that you like about BookBuzzr. Make sure that you add the hashtag "#BBZR" to your tweet. This will help us to trace your tweet. Here's a sample tweet:
"#BBZR - I love BookBuzzr because it helps get automatic, guaranteed eyeballs from my target audience for Read more [...]
How to tell your friends about your book being available on BookBuzzr?
You can now invite your friends to offer your book for a free preview on fReado and get a feedback about your book. They can read it and share the same with their friends as well. If you are a new or existing author on BookBuzzr, this instruction guide should help you in inviting your friends to your fReado page and start marketing your book. If you don't have an account yet, you can sign-up to Bookbuzzr at www.bookbuzzr.com.
Let’s get started!
Login to BookBuzzr. You will then see your “My Read more [...]
How To Automate Marketing Your Book on Twitter With BookBuzzr (aka Book Tweeter)
Last Updated: 16th March 2013
We often hear queries from authors and publishers about how to use BookBuzzrs Book Tweeting technology to market books on Twitter. The idea is to help authors market their books on Twitter with a large degree of automation (and without annoying the followers of the authors)
If you are a new or existing author on BookBuzzr, this instruction guide should help you add in your Twitter details and start marketing your book on Twitter. This article assumes Read more [...]
An Example of a Good Book Trailer
Most book-trailers don't receive any attention from readers. Problems with many book-trailers include the following:
1. The music does not match the mood of the books
2. They are too long
3. They are too wordy
This particular book-trailer of a book by author - L. Anne Carrington does not have any of these problems.
The music matches the mood of the book and is likely to appeal to it's target demographic (mostly sporty young men and some women.)
It is short - just 57 seconds Read more [...]
Why Seth Godin is Wrong on the Kindle-iPad War
Seth Godin suggests that Amazon bring down the price of the Kindle to $49, strip down features and build market-share. Here's why I think that this viewpoint can cause more harm than good to Amazon. Read more [...]
How to Market Your Book By Sharing Your BookBuzzr Book Widget on Facebook
The BookBuzzr Book Widget allows you to share your book sample and other information on Facebook. This is an effective method to promote your book on your Facebook profile without being overtly pushy. Your friends and fans can also share your book on their own Facebook profiles with just a few clicks.
If you are an author and you want to share your BookBuzzr book-widget on Facebook here’s how you do it.
1. Go to www.bookbuzzr.com and create your widget by uploading information about yourself Read more [...]
BookBuzzr Brand Definitions
For your quick reference, below are the short descriptions of various BookBuzzr brands that you keep seeing:
BookBuzzr - The company that provides various book marketing technologies to authors.
BookBuzzr Games - A technology from BookBuzzr that helps authors market their books to book lovers through online games (formerly referred to as CoverBuzzr).
Freado - A website that hosts BookBuzzr Games, prizes being given away to winners of BookBuzzr Games, and various author and book details.
CoverMatcher Read more [...]
