FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

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

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. The BookBuzzr Book Tweeting feature tweets about your book in a creative and 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 Flipper 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.

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

	BookBuzzr	Scribd	Issuu	Google Books
BookBuzzr Flipper of your book (like a portable author website that can be shared on Facebook, Blogs etc.)	YES	NO	YES	YES
Sample of your book with pages that flip like a real book.	YES	NO	NO	NO
Connects your book-sampler with your Twitter account and markets your book on Twitter.	YES	NO	NO	NO
Markets your book through an interactive game on the world's biggest book-winning site.	YES	NO	NO	NO
Sends you alerts when your Amazon sales rank changes (saves you hours a day).	YES	NO	NO	NO

BookBuzzr has opted to build its payment processing solution using PayPal's payment processing system. This is because PayPal is secure and trusted by millions of people.

Your existing Visa or Mastercard credit card will work with PayPal.

No. Authors can choose whether they want BookBuzzr for 1 book or up to 5 or 10 books. If you have more than 10 books, you can contact us for discounted pricing by sending an email to support@bookbuzzr.com

Cancellations may be made by sending an email to support@bookbuzzr.com, or by logging into your 'My Account' page on the website and clicking on "Manage Subscriptions" and then click on "Cancel My Subscription."

When an author signs up / subscribes with BookBuzzr all the services/technologies will be activated immediately. You, however, need to spend some time to install the widgets on your blog, website and Facebook page. If you have any challenges in getting started, our tech team is available for help.

1. Log in to www.bookbuzzr.com
2. Select your book.
3. Click on Manage Book Excerpt option in the left-hand side menu which is below your book cover.
4. Click on Page Setup option.
5. Scroll down the page and click on the radio button, Select Pages (e.g. Page No. 20 to Page No. 30), enter the page numbers you would like to display in 'Display pages from Page No. - to Page No. section,', click on 'Add' and finally click on 'Save and Next.'

It is free for 14 days. 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. BookBuzzr Flipper is like a portable author website that allows for marketing of the book on Facebook, Linked-in and Twitter. The BookBuzzr Flipper also acts as a more engaging replacement for an author's book-cover image. The flipper 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. If you need us to help you with uploading and set-up, we'll be happy to do so.

To get the mini-widget in the side bar of a 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 will see the 'Appearance.' Click on this.
• You will see various options under this.
• You will see the 'Widgets' option. Click on this option.
• You will 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 will 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.

Absolutely. BookBuzzr does not sell books. It only helps you market your books. BookBuzzr complements your KDP promotions very nicely. For example, when you run a KDP Free Day, you can use our landing page widget to announce it to your site visitors.

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

• If your BookBuzzr flipper 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.

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.

We often hear queries from authors 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.

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