Our thanks to Jim Azevedo, marketing director at Smashwords, for this guest contribution! Ebooks released as preorders sell more copies than ebooks simply uploaded the day of release. Yet even as ebook preorders are a proven sales booster, most indie
Our thanks to Mike Fishbein for this guest contribution. This article was originally published at mfishbein.com and we thought it would definitely resonate with many of our authors! Would you order “fried crap” off a restaurant menu? I was catching
Our thanks to book publicist Claire McKinney of Claire McKinney Public Relations for this post! You have an MFA in Creative Writing from a respected program/university. You have been carefully crafting your book to create the best literary debut you
Our thanks to Chanticleer Book Reviews founder Kiffer Brown for this guest post! Editorial book reviews are one of the most powerful tools available to authors for getting their books before the eyes of readers and media professionals. Most authors
Amazon recently announced that, for some titles, the company will allow consumers to buy, at a discount, an e-book edition of a book that they are buying in print. Better still for authors: Readers who already own these titles in
So, we were seriously thinking about titling this post, “Where Writers Win Acquires Amazon” and then shouting “April Fool’s!” in the first line… But these days even a well-timed joke may quickly be misconstrued and the resulting litigation could take
Amazon has expanded its “Send to Kindle” button, a tool that lets readers save online content to read on their device. Now a website owner or blogger can install the button on their site so readers can just click to