Publishing on Kindle? Don’t forget to write a GOOD book first
I’m a sucker for a bargain. I’ve been sampling and sometimes buying Kindle books that are priced at $.99 to $2.99. Some have been good and some are…not so good. But they were cheap, so excused the occasional typo or awkward phrasing or lame plot. But, no more. Publishing ebooks has become the latest way [...]
October 19, 2011
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Tags: Amazon Kindle, ebooks, make a million dollars on the internet · Posted in: ebooks
Shopping cart for your blog? Try Cart 66
Every other author I know has been interested lately in adding downloadable ebooks to their websites. If you site is in WordPress, there are several shopping carts available as a plugin. I’ve been working with the free version of Cart 66 to add digital products to a client’s web site. Check out this video and [...]
May 27, 2011
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Tags: Cart 66, ebooks, shopping cart for WordPress · Posted in: Buy The Book Marketing, ebooks, Your website
When you don’t know what you don’t know about publishing
About 20 years ago I took a job selling for a printing company. I called on nonprofits who sent out printed newsletters and needed brochures and other stuff printed. I knew next to nothing about printing and I had to get up to speed fast. Looking back, I think I knew just enough to be [...]
March 3, 2011
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Tags: CIPA, CIPA Book Expo, Colorado Independent Publishers Association, ebooks, how to self publish a book, Self publishing your book · Posted in: Events, Self publishing your book
New class: Ebooks 101
I’m delighted to announce I’ll be teaching E-books 101, a teleclass next Tuesday for members of Animal University, founded by my friend and colleague Joyce Leake. I’ve joined Animal University as a faculty member to teach members online marketing. For a brief description of the class, here’s a promo we recorded. (You can listen on [...]
January 6, 2011
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Tags: Animal University, ebook promotions, ebooks, selling ebooks · Posted in: Buy The Book Marketing, ebooks
When good books go bad
In today’s hyper-fast, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it world, printed books become dated very quickly. The average production time of a book can be 6 months to a year after the author has finished writing it and the editor has finished the last correction. That’s a lot of time for a nonfiction book to age and have some of [...]
August 31, 2010
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Tags: ebooks, epub, Kindle, nonfiction books · Posted in: ebooks, How to research stuff online, Self publishing your book
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
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Tags: Amazon.com, ebook, ebooks, selling ebooks · Posted in: Amazon.com, Buy The Book Marketing, ebooks, internet
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
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Tags: Amazon Kindle, ebook readers, ebooks, iphone, newpapers · Posted in: Amazon.com, ebooks
