Archive for the ‘Amazon.com’ Category

Where can you post your ebook for sale?

I was one of the presenters yesterday at the monthly meeting of the Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA). Brent Sampson of Outskirts Press and I talked about the best ways to promote and sell a book on Amazon.com. While most of the audience questions were about how to sell a print book, we got several questions [...]

September 21, 2009 · Mary · 2 Comments
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What can you learn from the wolf shirt phenomenon?

I was working tonight on my presentation to the Colorado Independent Publishers Association next Saturday – (I’m speaking on The 5 best ways to promote on Amazon.com) and came across THE WOLF SHIRT on the Amazon site. Perhaps you’ve seen it – a cheap black t-shirt with 3 wolves howling at the moon. The kind [...]

September 14, 2009 · Mary · 2 Comments
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Can you revive interest in your published book from several years ago?

How hard is it to revive interest in a book published several years ago? It depends. Can you tie your topic into current events and trends? Or is your topic sooooo 2004? So here’s my list of when to either update (or forget about) your book if it was published several years ago. 1. Was [...]

July 19, 2009 · Mary · No Comments
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Amazon Kindle, Apple iPhone apps – the end of printed books?

A friend referred me to an article in the Economist on the upsurge of popularity of the Amazon Kindle. The new ebook reader has led publishing pundits to speculate whether this is the beginning of the end for printed books. (This is not, of course the first time we’ve heard this version of “the sky is [...]

March 18, 2009 · Mary · No Comments
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The death of traditional book stores

Brick and mortar stores are losing to online bookstores. I’ve been seeing a lot of articles online on how many bookstores are closing their brick and mortar stores while keeping their online store. The internet, they say, has killed their traditional bookstore business. As self-publishers, their loss is your gain. You stand to make a [...]

November 7, 2008 · Mary · No Comments
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