Amazon is often described as a threat in the world of publication. While there are pros and cons to choosing publication with Amazon, only the author can decide what is right for them.
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Think like Ron Burgundy and consider some non-traditional marketing methods to get your book on the radar.
book marketing / book sales / Guest Columnists
by Beth Barany · Published May 24, 2013 · Last modified May 23, 2013
Set up your own mini-marketing campaigns to maximize the publicity your book receives.
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by Beth Barany · Published March 13, 2013
Amazon censored my latest erotic short story, “Call Me Maybe: Sexual Caresses at an Airport,” by removing it from the Amazon search engine. Here’s how I resolved it.
artist entrepreneur / Audio / Author Career / Author Entrepreneur / book sales
by Beth Barany · Published January 30, 2013 · Last modified February 22, 2013
Every month I get a large envelope in the mail with a happy check made out to me. This month it was over $70. The money was for the sales I made selling my audiobooks. I didn’t even do any marketing! Are you interested in some extra cash?
Author Entrepreneur / book sales
by Ezra Barany · Published September 19, 2012 · Last modified September 18, 2012
Here’s a quick check-list of items to bring with you if you have a display table to sell your books at a book fair or presentation.
Author Career / book marketing / Book Promotion / book sales / business of writing / Guest Columnists / Writing Tips
by Beth Barany · Published September 7, 2012 · Last modified July 10, 2013
I’ve heard a lot of erotica writers say, “I don’t get it! Why is 50 Shades of Grey so Popular?” Many of us get our panties in a bunch, jealous that someone else’s first-time work of erotica can be a national bestseller. The truth is, what Erika Leonard, aka E.L. James, did can be a guide for all of us fiction authors, and you, too, can become a bestselling author.
Author Career / Author Entrepreneur / book marketing / Book Promotion / book sales
by Ezra Barany · Published August 15, 2012
Has this happened to you? You’re chatting about your book on Amazon and they react to the word “Amazon” as though you mentioned the Devil. They want to ban Amazon. Well I’d rather ban indie bookstores before banning Amazon.
Author Career / book marketing / Book Promotion / Book Reviews / book sales
by Ezra Barany · Published June 20, 2012
The nightmare among authors is to get a bad review. One star reviews can be horrible. Especially the seemingly well-written and intelligent bad reviews – “seemingly” because the information is false or misleading – that kill sales. But if you just follow these seven steps, you can overcome some bad reviews.
Author Career / book marketing / Book Promotion / book sales
by Ezra Barany · Published May 30, 2012 · Last modified May 29, 2012
Say you have a jar full of rocks, pebbles, and sand. Each rock, pebble, and grain of sand represents a step you can take to being a bestselling author, a full jar. Some steps take more time than others, some cost more money to do, but time and money are not a reflection of the size of the stones. Instead, the size refers to how effective each step is in reaching your goal. If you only have the time and money to put in 7 things, doesn’t it make sense that you should focus on the ones that are large rocks instead of the tiny pebbles?
Author Career / book marketing / Book Promotion / book sales
by Ezra Barany · Published May 16, 2012
Many authors think getting their work published in an anthology is great for visibility. They’re right. But not for the reason they think. If you self-publish, you then tell all your friends and family about the book. But with an anthology, you now have all the contributing authors tell all their friends and all their families about the book. The amount of people who hear about the anthology and see your published name can be ten times as many!
book marketing / Book Promotion / book sales / publishing
by Ezra Barany · Published May 2, 2012 · Last modified May 3, 2012
I thought that if I made my ebook have a layout exactly like my print book, that would be enough to make my ebook sell well. The truth is, by going from print to ebook, I made the layout identical and that was a mistake. I missed out on making news of the release of my ebook spread like wildfire, and I missed out on making sure I got plenty of good reviews from my ebook sales. If I had just added a few extra components to my ebook layout, I could have made more sales and received more reviews.
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