Tag: Amazon
How Best Selling Indie Authors Deal with Negative Reviews on Amazon
“The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.” - William Faulkner
As an author you know that getting plenty of reviews for your book is important. They create social proof and help push readers into making a buy decision. But in this open marketplace, you also need to deal with something that is nearly as bad as indifference - negative reviews.
Over the years, Read more [...]
Climbing the Amazon ladder . . .
Guest Expert: Scott Hunter
Following the milestone of 27,000 Kindle copies sold of my archaeological thriller, The Trespass, Freya has invited me to share a few marketing tips . . .
Here, in no particular order, are some of the actions I have taken over the past eight months which I believe have contributed (and still are contributing) to healthy sales of my four novels.
So, what did I do? Well, I …
• …signed up to BookBuzzr.
This was one of the first things I did. I liked the Read more [...]
My Views On Self Publishing: Dino Simonetti
Guest Expert: Dino Simonetti
Consider this-when a writer asks you to buy a book, they’re asking you to trust them. They’re asking you to part with hard-earned dollar (well unless its an e-book). When a reader buys the book, we’re hopeful they’ll love it enough to tell their friends etc. to buy/read it as well.
My topic today will be about independent publishing and my experiences with it. I will also discuss my choice of publish-on-demand services.
Here’s the typical writing Read more [...]
How to Be a Best Seller on Amazon: An Interview with Multi-Category Best Selling Author Judy Powell
Today we’re pleased to present an interview with best-selling author Judy Powell. Judy came on to our radar when she recently subscribed for a BookBuzzr Author Pro Plus account. We were able to connect with her and request her to do this interview.
Judy Powell is a writer and marketing consultant who lives in Ontario, Canada. Her works are diverse, featuring romance novels set in Jamaica, Chicago and New York, a historical novel focusing on Jamaican culture and history, and non-fiction Read more [...]
My KDP Select Free Experiment: 3 days free, & the aftermath
Guest Expert: Laura Pepper
As part of the KDP Select Program, where books become available to borrow as part of the Kindle library lending program, authors/publishers can also set the book price for free for up to 5 days out of every 90. This can be 5 consecutive days, or it can be broken up however you wish. (This option is available by going to your KDP bookshelf, checking the title you wish to make free, and then clicking "Actions" on the upper left side.)
I decided to enroll a 10,000 word Read more [...]
Kindle Direct Publishing: The KDP Select Program from Amazon
Guest Expert: Michelle Hughes
As an exclusive Amazon user I was very interested in the debut kdp Select program that was unveiled this month. This program boasted of allowing authors the opportunity to distribute books through the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, earn royalties from a new source, promote their books for free, and get instant feedback on how well the book was doing through the program.
For those of you not familiar with the kindle owners' lending library, it's a collection of Read more [...]
Got a 5-Star Amazon Presence?
How to Stand Out on Those Overcrowded Online Shelves
Guest Expert: Laurel Marshfield
Amazon.com is the world’s largest online bookseller. And if you’re an author with one or more books, it is the one place you most definitely want to be. Getting visibility, though, is no easy task. You are competing with millions of books, overall -- and perhaps hundreds or even thousands of titles in your specific genre or subject niche.
There’s an added challenge. Famous authors in your genre Read more [...]
The Amazon Launch for Your Book: What You Can Learn from My Mistakes
Expert: Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the multi award-winning Frugal Book Promoter: How to get nearly free publicity on your own or partnering with your publisher
(updated and expanded to 416 pages!)
As the author of The Frugal Book Promoter and other award-winning books in the HowToDoItFrugally series of books, I probably shouldn’t have made any mistakes with the online launch of the second edition. And I probably wouldn’t have if I had been taking my own advice.
In the first edition Read more [...]
How to Sell More Books on Amazon
: A Book Review by Vikram Narayanan (CEO BookBuzzr)
I recently had an opportunity to review the book “How to Sell More Books on Amazon”. This book is short at less than 40 pages. But it is packed with actionable suggestions which, if implemented diligently, can yield significant results to an author. Here’s what you’ll find in the book:
1. A check list of essential and optional activities that you can do on Amazon to promote your book.
2. Strategies for increasing your visibility Read more [...]
How My Book Hit #1 on Kindle
Guest Expert: Shelley Hitz
Would you like your book to hit #1 in its category on Kindle and be able to say that you're a "best-selling author"? Of course you would! It not only increases your credibility, but can also help you sell more books. Let me explain.
The Key - Choosing Your Categories Wisely
As I was preparing for my book launch, I started researching how to choose categories on Amazon. To be honest, I didn't find a ton of information on how to do it.
However, I did finally figure Read more [...]
