Top Questions About BookBuzzr:

• What is BookBuzzr?
• Will BookBuzzr help me get more sales for my book?
• Why do I need BookBuzzr?
• What is the difference between BookBuzzr Author Pro and BookBuzzr Author Lite?
• What is the difference between BookBuzzr Author Pro and BookBuzzr Author Pro Plus?
• How is BookBuzzr different from other book promotion and marketing technologies?
• Do I need to pay for BookBuzzr?
• What extra features do I get if I pay for BookBuzzr Author Pro?
• How can I get the BookBuzzr Widget?
• Is the BookBuzzr Widget free?
• How do I offer my book as a giveaway on Freado.com?
• How do I upgrade my book from BookBuzzr Author Lite to BookBuzzr Author Pro?
• How can I share my widget on Facebook?
• How can I share my widget on my blog?
• How can I share my widget on my author website?
• How to put the mini-widget in a sidebar of a WordPress blog?
• I want my book to appear in your newsletter. What can I do?
• How do I set up the BookBuzzr Amazon Alerts feature?
• I don't want to give my book away as a prize.
• How do I set up BookBuzzr Book Tweeter?
• Hi BookBuzzrs, just wanted to find out about the Hangman game ... I didn't create one????? Magic? You did one? How does this work?
• Is it possible for people to make the widget go viral? Any idea on how to do it??
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What is BookBuzzr?

BookBuzzr is primarily a suite of DIY (Do-It-Yourself) book marketing technologies. We provide a variety of book marketing and book promotion technologies. This includes the following:

• BookBuzzr Author Lite - a group of free book marketing and book promotion technologies
• BookBuzzr Author Pro - a group of technologies that require a small monthly subscription fee.
• BookBuzzr Author Plus - a technology which gives maximum exposure for your book cover.

Will BookBuzzr help me get more sales for my book?

No. BookBuzzr does not guarantee more sales for your book. But BookBuzzr definitely increase your probability of selling more books. When a user constantly views your book cover inside the game, he or she begins to unconsciously memorize your book cover. So the next time this book lover is in a bookstore or on Amazon.com, and sees your book, the chances of him recognizing the book is increased. And it creates buzz for your book where people tend to discuss your book (or bid for your book if it is made available as a prize on Freado.)

Why do I need BookBuzzr?

As an author you need to think about only two activities:

• Produce the highest quality content
• Promote that content to your target audience

BookBuzzr takes care of most of the second activity.

As an author, you may not have the motivation to market your book on a daily basis. The BookBuzzr Author Pro technology takes care of this problem. It presents your book cover and other book details to genuine book lovers. And it does this day in and day out. Even while you sleep or while you are on vacation.

Similarly, once you set it up, the BookBuzzr Book Tweeting feature tweets about your book in a creative, non-annoying manner to your Twitter followers. And it does this even on days when you can't get to your Twitter account.

Or consider the BookBuzzr Book Widget and BookBuzzr Mini Widget which act as a much more engaging replacement for your book cover. Their pages flip like a real book and invite your readers to actually sample your book.

What is the difference between BookBuzzr Author Pro and BookBuzzr Author Lite?

BookBuzzr Author Lite is for authors who are willing to put in the grunt work necessary day-in and day-out to keep their book in front of the eyes of their readers. It is completely free and includes:

• BookBuzzr Widget
• BookBuzzr Mini Widget
• BookBuzzr Book Tweeter
• BookBuzzr Email Signature
• A free, basic listing on Freado.com

BookBuzzr Author Pro is a subscription service targeted towards authors who have a great book but may be constrained for time. Or it's possible that they want to spend more time writing and less time promoting their book. Or maybe they are willing to put in the effort required for book promotion but also want to have additional opportunities for exposure. In addition to all of the technologies provided in BookBuzzr Author Lite, BookBuzzr Author Pro provides you with the following time-saving book promotion technologies:

• Promotion of your book inside the CoverMatcher game and on Freado.com
• BookBuzzr Amazon Alerts Service
• A Facebook Fan Page Widget
• The QuickQuiz technology to help market your book on Facebook in a viral manner
• The Hangman game technology to add additional interactivity on your Facebook page, blog and website

In addition, BookBuzzr Author Pro provides you with many other premium features that are increasing every month.

BookBuzzr Author Pro provides all this for one low monthly subscription fee.

What is the difference between BookBuzzr Author Pro and BookBuzzr Author Pro Plus?

In addition to all of the technologies provided in BookBuzzr Author Lite, BookBuzzr Author Pro provides you with the following time-saving book promotion technologies:

• Promotion of your book inside the CoverMatcher game and on Freado.com
• BookBuzzr Amazon Alerts Service
• A Facebook Fan Page Widget
• The QuickQuiz technology to help market your book on Facebook in a viral manner
• The Hangman game technology to add additional interactivity on your Facebook page, blog and website

The differences between BookBuzzr Author Pro and Author Pro Plus are mainly related to the additional automatic exposures for your book that are provided on Freado.com and at other places as depicted in the following table.

How is BookBuzzr different from other book promotion and marketing technologies?

The table below should help you understand how BookBuzzr is different:

Do I need to pay for BookBuzzr?

BookBuzzr Author Lite is free. BookBuzzr Author Pro requires a small monthly subscription fee.

What extra features do I get if I pay for BookBuzzr Author Pro?

• Premium listing in Freado.com (includes a section where you are interviewed by Freado)
• The technology to promote your book through a prize giveaway
• Exposure for your book in our patent pending BookBuzzr Author Pro technology
• The BookBuzzr Amazon Alerts service

How can I get the BookBuzzr Widget?

Here is some information on BookBuzzr and how to get your own widget. BookBuzzr is a FREE page-flipping application that is more suited for marketing books online. BookBuzzr comes with the built-in ability to share your book-extract on over 60 social networking and bookmarking sites such as Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Digg, Delicious etc. Signing up is simple and takes just 10 min. Go to www.bookbuzzr.com Click on sign-up now, follow instructions and enter all details. Upload excerpt and wait for it to convert. Once the conversion is complete you will receive an email notification. Now you can share your book with the world. Login and start marketing.

Is the BookBuzzr Widget free?

Authors simply have to sign-up on the www.bookbuzzr.com site, upload their book-extract and other information and they get a beautiful widget with flipping pages. And it's completely free. BookBuzzr Widget is like a portable author website that allows for marketing of the book on Facebook, MySpace, Linked-in and Twitter. The BookBuzzr widget also acts as a more engaging replacement for an author's book-cover image. The widget also holds sales or buying details. When the reader buys the book the author makes money. Please sign-up and you can get started right away. Or if you need us to help you with uploading and set-up, we'll be happy to do so.

How do I offer my book as a giveaway on Freado.com?

After subscribing to BookBuzzr Author Pro you will be redirected to the 'Book Give Away' page. Here enter the description of your book, shipping countries, number of copies you would like to give away and click on 'List My Book as a Prize'.

How do I upgrade my book from BookBuzzr Author Lite to BookBuzzr Author Pro?

Please follow the below steps to upgrade your book to BookBuzzr Author Pro.

• Login to BookBuzzr.com.
• You will be redirected to 'Book Marketing Home' page.
• Click on the book title for which you would like to subscribe.
• Next, at the right panel click on "Subscribe To BookBuzzr Author Pro/Pro Plus". It redirects you to the subscription page. Scroll down and click on 'Continue'.
• Next you will be redirected to pricing page. Scroll down and click on the 'Subscribe' button.
• It redirects you to the PayPal Billing Information page.
• Follow the on-screen prompts and complete the process to subscribe for this promotion.

How can I share my 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.

How can I share my widget on my blog?

Adding the widget to your blog is easy. Click on the "Share" button. There you will see a line of code with the text "Embed code" beside it. Click on the "Copy" button. Then paste this code into the HTML area where your book-cover image usually appears on your blog. Please note that this option does not work for blogs running on Wordpress. It works perfectly well for authors with Blogger accounts.

How can I share my widget on my author website?

We often get this question from some authors who want to know how they can add the BookBuzzr Book Widget to their blog or website. Here are the steps you need to follow:

How to put the mini-widget in a sidebar of a WordPress blog?

To get the mini-widget in the side bar of wordpress blog please follow the instructions below.

• Log In to the wordpress blog.
• You will be directed to the Dashboard.
• On the left hand side you can see the 'Appearance'. Click on this.
• You can see various options under this.
• You can see the 'Widgets' option. Click on this option.
• You get to see the 'Available Widgets' / 'Inactive widgets'.
• Drag and drop the widget named 'Text' for Arbitrary text or HTML into the sidebar.
• Click on the 'Text' widget. You can see an empty box and a title bar.
• Paste the mini-widget code into the empty box and give some title in the title bar.
• Click on the save option.
• Next check your blog/site. You can see the mini-widget in the sidebar.

I want my book to appear in your newsletter. What can I do?

You can get your book into the newsletter in the following ways:

• If your book widget views are among the top 10 for the previous month.
• If your book full screen views are among the top for the previous month.
• If your book page views (total number of pages viewed) are among the top 10 for the previous month.
• If your book has been desired by book lovers (applicable if you are a subscriber to BookBuzzr Author Pro.)

How do I set up the BookBuzzr Amazon Alerts feature?

Checking Amazon Sales Rank can be a major time waster for most authors. So we went ahead and developed an automated sales rank reporting tool which sends you an email only when your book's sales rank improves. We've been astounded by the number of authors who have adopted the BookBuzzr Amazon Alerts service. Please note that this service is available only to BookBuzzr Author Pro subscribes (i.e. authors who have subscribed to BookBuzzr Author Pro.)

I don't want to give my book away as a prize.

It is entirely OPTIONAL and you do not need to participate if you do not want to.

How do I set up BookBuzzr Book Tweeter?

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 blog post about how to automate marketing your book on Twitter with BookBuzzr (aka Book Tweeter) should help you add in your Twitter details and start marketing your book on Twitter.

Hi BookBuzzrs, just wanted to find out about the Hangman game ... I didn't create one????? Magic? You did one? How does this work?

Actually it's not magic although we wish it was:)

Hangman games can be created by both readers and authors (BookBuzzr Author Pro subscribers.) If you are a BAP (BookBuzzr Author Pro subscriber) and you create a Hangman game, your book will appear in every game for every question. If, however, a game is created by a reader (for the sake of royalty points which the reader earns every time his game is played), then our algorithm automatically shows up BAP author book covers inside the game.

This is why you are seeing a few exposures under the section - Exposures in Hangman Game

Is it possible for people to make the widget go viral? Any idea on how to do it??

Here are the three different ways to make the BookBuzzr widget go viral.

• Click on the 'Share' option in the widget. You will see a line that says 'Embed Code' with some code beside it and a button that says 'Copy'. Click on 'Copy'. Then go to your web-page or blog and 'Paste' the code inside the HTML file (one good option is to replace the book-picture on your website or blog with the BookBuzzr widget). Visitors to your site or blog will be able to read your book-extract right there itself!
• Click on the 'Share' button in the widget. Upon clicking the Share button, you will see a variety of buttons to share your book. Click on the 'B' button at the top to share the widget on the blogger. A window should open with a message asking you to enter the login details. Check the option 'Post to sidebar' and click on Post. Your widget should appear in the sidebar of your blog.
• Be the first of your friends on Facebook to like the widget by clicking on the like button in your Freado book profile.