You can read it as it is released chapter-by-chapter on Wattpad.com.
Timing, Images and Preparation in Promoting Your Book
Great advice from Jan Dunlap, author of the Birder Murder Mystery series (You gotta love that series title!). She used it to move 4,000 copies of her new novel in 5 days!
How to Stage An Online Blitz
Matthew Mather Describes the Promotional Tools He Used to Sell 40k Copies of His First Novel in 10 Weeks
This article contains lots of great advice. I’m not just reading it – I’m studying it.
The SHAKESPEARE System – Top 10 Tips (plus one bonus tip) for Self-Publishing Success from #1 Best-Selling Indie Author Matthew Mather
Why I’m Thinking of Raising the Price of My E-Book
Blogging is a great way to learn about a subject. I just posted about the average prices of e-books. Using a link I discovered and included in that post – a great list of top-selling e-books by price – I noticed that #litfic (literary fiction) titles seem to be in a particular set of price ranges. For example, there appear … Read More
Average Price of e-Book Best-Sellers is On the Rise
Hot news for readers and writers: “More expensive titles continue to sell more e-books than their cheaper counterparts.” The average price for an e-book best-seller in our top-25 list jumped to $11.79 this week, it’s highest point since we launched the list in August and a marked increase from last week when it was $10.43. More from Digital Book World … Read More
Amazon’s Advice about How to Sell Books on Amazon
From Joe Fine, Amazon’s director of author and publisher relations.
Traditional Publishers Racing to Find Hot Self-Published Writers
More measures of success for the self-publishing revolution.
Barbara Freethy Sells 1 Million NOOK Books
The action isn’t all restricted to Amazon’s KDP.
@JanalynVoigt: How to Run a Social Media Campaign on 60 Minutes a Day
She provides very specific, useable advice. I will probably be following up on her recommendations for hours – particularly items 3, 4 and 10.
Self-Publishing: Best File Formats for Upload to Amazon/Kindle/Nook/CreateSpace
UPDATE 10-6-2012: Everything in this field is evolving all the time, so it’s time for an update to this post. I’m now using Jutoh, an application that takes your source file and exports it in different formats for upload to Amazon, Nook, Smashwords, etc. It makes it easier to get the table of contents right in the various different formats, … Read More