Ready, Set, Go Sell Your Book In The Real World!

We hear a lot these days about more books actually being sold ‘outside’ the traditional bookstore. Think about it. When was the last time you actually took time to linger and explore the bookshelves? When did you last impulsively grab a book, flip it over, read the blurbs, and finger through a few chapters? Let’s face it, most of us are too hurried.

Increase Book Sales: When a Book is No Longer Just a Book for Sale

Do you have books sitting in your garage that you haven’t sold yet and looking for ways to move them? Then you will want to know about these five outrageous ideas that aren’t difficult and can be just plain out fun.

Dede Hall, author of The Starving Student’s Cookbook had very poor sales for her books.

A First Time Authors Publicity Kit Materials

If you’re a new author that has been requested to send publicist materials, you may feel left in the dark on what to send. Here’s a list of the usual items.

1. Author Bio
This is no place for modesty. You’re competing with many other authors out there and need to show how your hot and worth it.

What?s Wrong with the Internet? It Must be Broken!

After months of scouring the internet, I could not put my hands on the 2 million links various search engines said were available to do my book promotions. First, let me say I perceive myself as an intermediate user of the internet, but maybe my perception was misguided as I searched and realized I couldn’t put my pointer on the links I wanted.

How To Promote A Book

Nowadays it’s no longer a matter of whether or not an author should promote his or her book, but how aggressively one should go about it. The sad truth is that publishers often fail to promote books, and if we, the authors, don’t promote your own book then it may be destined to a lifespan between that of butter and yogurt, to paraphrase Calvin Trillan.

Looking to Sell Your Book for a Good Price?

Many self-publishing authors plan on eventually selling their book to a large publisher at a good price. The fast track way to achieve this goal is to push up the market value of a book with a push v. pull strategy. This article shows you how to do exactly that, using a simple Internet strategy that any self-publisher can afford.

FSBO Author believes in Bookswaps

Hi Noel,

I absolutely love your website, As an MS sufferer I intend to buy your book and get “Back onto my feet.” My motto this year is, “Again Alive In 2005!”

I have published a book also. It is not specifically about Multiple Sclerosis, although one of the characters in “FSBO” does have this “Dread Disease.

How to Sell Your E-book - (or other information product) - Through Quickie Seminars

I’ve been selling my own self-published information products (mainly e-books) online for the past 3 years. Is it profitable? Definitely.

But as any seasoned information marketer will vouch, it takes time to build up your name recognition online. You’ll have to spend considerable effort to develop word-of-mouth web site traffic. It’s rare that you start off making $1,000 a day.

Make Big Profits from Small Booklets

What is your excuse for not being published? “I don’t know enough to fill a book.” “I don’t have time to write a whole book.” “It’s too hard to get an agent or publisher, and I don’t want to self publish.” None of these excuses apply to booklets. Anyone can write and publish an 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2″ booklet of 16 to 48 pages.

Plain Speaking ? 4 Secrets For Getting Your Book Purchased

What can be more infuriating to a potential purchaser of a non-fiction book than chapter headings which give no clue as to their contents? After all, if someone is looking in the non-fiction section of a book store, it implies they want facts, not a fancy and "clever" table of contents! Here are 4 sure-fire ways to make your text grab the reader’s attention:

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