Offers of interviews or guest blogs may also encourage bloggers to publicise your book. How to increase your amazon kindle book sales by 600% in a. I can tell you its frustrating to see them out there with their orange life preservers on. Publishing your book will take a lot of research, perseverance, and patience, but it will be worth it to see your work in print. Hitting the publish button increase kindle book sales. There is so much you can do on to help promote your book and give you the exposure you deserve. A grand but overused tactic to improve kindle book sales is to spread your books amazon sale page. Facebook has become a paytoplay network, requiring paid ads if you want to get visibility with more people for your posts. Im new to this as well, i have 3 ebooks out there floating on the kindle sea.
We are here to give an extra helping hand to authors with our online book promotion. Share your video on your youtube channel, with a post on facebook, linkedin and tweet the link. For anything outside of that, amazon takes 65%, and you get 35%. If theres one question that is eternal and ongoing in our author community, then its how to sell more books sales are always on our mind and wherever we are in the bestseller chart, we look a little enviously at those above us in this article, we have ideas and solutions for you 50 of them in fact which should be more than enough ways to promote your book. Each idea will only take around ten minutes for you to do.
One powerful way to launch a new book is by using amazons kdp select program. How to promote your book for free, top the charts, and make sales by ray a. Just foolow them and they will follow u back and promote your ebook for. How to become an ebook superstar books the guardian. How to promote your book on amazon group 7877 members. Talk about the takeaways of your ebook in your video and then show a link to your ebook at the end of your video. An amazon central author page is a musthave promotion tool tip. Pitch your book to publications linked to your niche audience. We take the burden of your book for promotion while you are busy working on your next book, by promoting it every day on our social networks. Publishing a book might seem even more daunting than writing one. Your book will be available on amazon in the us, uk, spain, france, italy and germany. By having a separate page, you will make your kindle book promotion that bit easier to publicise. How to promote books on facebook in a way you havent.
If you use email a lot or have an email list, this is as close to word of mouth advertising as you can get. Advertise your book on your blog, social networks, and forums, to concentrate. A grand but overused tactic to improve kindle book sales is to spread your book s amazon sale page link to as many free and paid book promotion sites as possible. How to use twitter to promote your new book or other product. We support our authors efforts to promote their books worldwide, but at the same time we work to prevent any manipulation of the kindle publishing service. Build anticipation by reminding your readers of the hard work youve done and the benefits theyll get from reading your work. Just like a traditional publishing company would, you ought to promote your novel with online promotion or an article on your author blog sharing the official launch of your kindle book. Publicize your book by jacqueline deval was everything i expected it to be.
This promotion is a powerful way to kickstart the sales of your kindle book, so to get lots of downloads you need to advertise your free days in. With these goals in mind, here are 20 book marketing tips to help your book sales after publishing your book. This is an essential book for any first time author. Five simple ways to promote your selfpublished book. Youre about to publish your ebook on kindle direct publishing kdp. Run a social media giveaway, gift your books to readers at an event, or send copies to newsletter subscribers. In order to selfpublish your book on blurb, you have to pay a fee depending on the length of your book. If youre a kindle publisher, then im excited to share with you a powerful new software that.
These are free tips i have picked up along the way that i feel every author should be aware of. If erotica, theyll only promote to certain sites that allow it. Im new to this as well, i have 3 e books out there floating on the kindle sea. Paula mclains critically acclaimed novel, the paris wife, a new york times best seller and winner of many awards, is not a selfpublished ebook. Prepare, publish, promote promote your book kindle merchandising programs author central. Using the kindle direct publishing select program, i gave the book away for free for the first 5. A grand but overused tactic to improve kindle book sales is to spread your books amazon sale page link to as many free and paid book promotion sites as possible. It appears as if though youve gotten some pretty good advice thus far. How to selfpublish your book through amazon forbes.
Send out your first email before your book is live. Apart from that, you can create an ebook for other thirdparty online book stores apple books, kindle store, etc. The more someone likes what you have to share in your tweets, the more likely he or she will be to check out your book. And speaking of sharing twitter is the place to share yourself, your worldview and your topical expertise via how you curate what comes at you every day.
If you are an author and would like to have your book promoted for free on our site, please fill out the form below. However, i have to comment about the book you used for art at the top of this post. Ebooks can be written about nearly any topic, for any niche, and for any business. You can create your author pages on amazon us, amazon uk, and amazon germany.
When readers buy a book they like, they can lend it to others. As soon as your book is live on amazon, send out a. At author central, you create your author page where you can share the most uptodate information about yourself and your works with millions of readers. Its also very honest about the muchhyped methods for becoming an amazon bestseller and why they may not work for you. Consider whether you have a landing page for your upcoming book release or at least the books you have written. Create an amazon kdp account, upload your book and set the price. I use to work for a company that specialized in promoting authors via. Compared to most forms of traditional advertising, facebook ads are still quite reasonably pricedand they allow you to reach very specific demographics. You can repeatedly use your video as a marketing tool by changing the teaser content you post along with the video url. Let your engaged readership know that your book is just hours away from being shipped to the kindle store. Yes, paulas novel still selling well in hardcover is available on a kindle. Yet it covers a wide range of ideas to market and publicise your book. How to market your kindle ebook in 10 steps wishpond.
755 230 1034 592 977 1232 945 917 576 1264 208 83 1447 542 437 244 537 168 1321 667 810 667 648 296 1018 856 1031 1070 234 80 1014 1335 1186 418 443