Make it easy for readers to find your book by placing it on
the biggest reader sites out there, including a listing on Goodreads.
However, 99c alone isn't a discovery mechanism — not anymore — so you need to combine it with something else, like an ad with one of
the big reader sites, or a group promotion with a bunch of other authors (or, for best results, both).
The big reader sites like Ereader News Today, Pixel of Ink, and BookBub don't seem to have much reach in the UK (or the other countries with a Kindle Store), so getting a freebie featured on those sites doesn't seem to impact ex-US numbers much.
Not exact matches
Cory Haik, who recently joined Mic as chief strategy officer after working in a similar capacity at the Washington Post, says a
big part of what she and Mic's director of growth and editorial products, Marcus Moretti, are working on is an attempt to marry traditional measurements of
reader activity with newer ways of determining if
readers are getting long - term value from what the
site is providing.
News
readers get that message more and more frequently these days, as
big news
sites tighten up their paywalls, allowing fewer free articles per month.
As
readers of this
site know, I'm not a
big fan of gold as a core exposure in portfolios (although I've been very, very wrong about this for a number of years).
Starting a HuffPo account usually requires a blogging track record of some kind, or at least a prominent presence or
big name, so those on the Left may want to consider starting a «diary» first on a
site like Daily Kos that takes all comers (though be careful about what you post — these
sites»
readers are typically viciously protective of their online homes, and blatantly promotional posts can get flamed fast).
A release whose title and content are written with web searchers in mind has a
big advantage and can help steer
readers / potential supporters interested in your subject to your
site, where you can capture them.
Big media outlets are definitely realizing the value of comments, and community - building is a major reason that the Washington Post and other major media
sites have rolled out comment features for most or all of news stories, and some have even implemented social network - style features for
readers.
And
readers, I would be happy to hear
reader's comments or read
reader's comments on the Web
site if they had their own nominations for kinds of events; but we kept it at 12 because we thought these were the 12, kind of, the
biggest ones for now.
As I'm sure you know, Q4 is on of the
biggest times of the year for retail sales and an incredible opportunity to make commissions and also come up with exciting holiday content that drives
readers to your
site!
As frequent
readers of this
site know, I am a
big fan of taking advantage of free dating
sites with my personal favorite being OKCupid.
Hmm, shall we recommend the free
site to our
readers so they can get started without pulling out their wallets, or should we pretend that this is an article when it's really a
big advertisement that we hope gets us a few referral bucks for new paysite members?
However, Erika Ettin, founder of dating
site A Little Nudge, says asking someone... Back in the day JDate was one of the
biggest niche
sites, and it still is who are simply
readers.
If you've been a
reader of my
site for awhile, you may have noticed that I don't just write reviews on movies that hit the
big screen.
So many news to share with you guys, to begin i want to thank my faithful
readers to follow the
site and the social media accounts (twitter and instagram), today the
site celebrates its 11 years online, and it's because michelle's fan base gets
bigger day by day and your support to the
site that my interest is still here, i love michelle and her carrer in the same way since the begining, but her choices made me a
bigger fan and picked my interest, i'm particulary fan of all her last movies, all her upcoming movies intrigues me, they're all so different and more my kind of movies, the last movie i saw in theaters was OZ, and my two favorite movies of Michelle are shutter Island and Me Without You (not very known, but if you find it, you should watch it, for the story, for Michelle, the music) so i look forward to see her in All The Money In The World (December 27 in france) and The Greatest Showman (End of January), so thank you for your visits, your nice comments, generally i always put a new design for the
site's birthday but i didn't have the time, so when we will get a new photoshoot, i will change the design, i like this one very much, and again THANK YOU
Like I say on the
site we don't have the
biggest list for
readers but we build an organic double - opt in list.
READERS: Join our Review Team and Subscribe to our
site and WIN
big with our weekly & monthly Amazon Giveaways.
The answers range from the biggies (USA TODAY, PW, KIRKUS, FOREWORD, PEOPLE, and major newspapers such as NY TIMES) to the not so
big (
reader blogs, online retail
sites such as Amazon, Midwest Book review, local papers).
With advertising considerations,
sites want
readers to spend as much time as possible on their websites; the
bigger issue, of course, is that
readers can not stay engaged in the discourse if they have to wait for their comments to be approved.
If you don't know who is coming to your
site, that's a
big problem — it's because you aren't controlling the content and putting it in front of target
readers.
One of the
bigger arguments I hear for having multiple
sites is that people will get confused or
readers don't want to see your writing services and vice versa.
For Viz, the ability to offer Shonen Jump Alpha for free is a
big step forward; many of its
readers are too young to have credit cards, and Viz is competing with bootleg
sites and apps that offer the same manga for free.
The
biggest difference with us is that EVERYONE on our
sites and email lists are
readers who signed up looking to find books.
The
Site Which Shall Not Be Named will not be the only site left standing as many readers are returning to the bookstores in droves, and many authors are beginning to sell from their own sites instead of sticking with any of the big online sto
Site Which Shall Not Be Named will not be the only
site left standing as many readers are returning to the bookstores in droves, and many authors are beginning to sell from their own sites instead of sticking with any of the big online sto
site left standing as many
readers are returning to the bookstores in droves, and many authors are beginning to sell from their own
sites instead of sticking with any of the
big online stores.
Evanovich fans (well, at least the ones who comment on our
site) aren't
big on the idea of Heigl as Stephanie Plum — will Gabaldon
readers embrace the actress?
Along the way, JManga spun off a sister
site, JManga7, that allowed
readers to access manga for free — but again, none of the series on the
site had a
big following.
Even in more concentrated reading environments, like goodreads.com (the
biggest readers»
site on the Net), recommendation ratios are incommensurably lower than anything you can get in music.
It's a shortcoming of the way most e-ink
readers are set up that they are restricted to reading books from a specific web
site, and that's a
big reason why I've switched my e-reading to tablets.
By July, she had sold more than 14,000 copies and got her noticed and featured on two of the
biggest sites for e-book
readers, which generated more sales.
Readers may be interested in buying your book, and will likely do so if there's a link that can easily take them to a site where the book is sold (Amazon is preferred for readers, but Barnes & Noble and iTunes are big ebook site
Readers may be interested in buying your book, and will likely do so if there's a link that can easily take them to a
site where the book is sold (Amazon is preferred for
readers, but Barnes & Noble and iTunes are big ebook site
readers, but Barnes & Noble and iTunes are
big ebook
sites too).
Ebook buyers will increasingly buy ebooks using mobile devices rather than PCs so your
site should work on smaller screens: browsing, searching and buying on an iPhone or ebook
reader can be frustrating on websites designed for a
big PC screen.
The
biggest leaps I had on the Amazon charts were from paid promotional pushes on
sites that market direct to Kindle
readers.
We approached some media outlets to run this, as it's too
big a deal for my blog, and we heard that it was too long for their
site, that it wouldn't interest their
readers, and so on.
Thought Catalog is consistently ranked among the
biggest 60 or 70 Web
sites in the world for unique users, and a specific feed for Anderson's columns there is available at this link for your
reader.
His two sessions drew
big crowds and rapt attention as he showed exactly how an author can connect with the 16 million
readers at the
site.
I currently own a Cybook and love it, but I really like the look of the Generation 2
reader they show on their web
site (above the one you reference) It has a little bit
bigger screen size (which apeals to me as I read everything in a very large font) and you should see all of the ebook
reader software that comes on it — every major one is listed I think.
Big community
sites, with tons of content that rank well in search engines, to increase the chances that indie authors will be discovered by new
readers (I'm building about 5 of these right now).
Actually, the metrics work against that recommendation — Amazon is likely to show up higher if someone searches for author + book + title anyway since Amazon is a
bigger site, but the metrics are that every extra click you put between the
reader and the buy button reduces the likelihood of a purchase.
As
readers of this
site know, I'm not a
big fan of gold as a core exposure in portfolios (although I've been very, very wrong about this for a number of years).
Most don't have an online presence and are too busy to engage online — many are chefs, restaurateurs, travel industry pros, and creatives (musicians, designers, artists, writers etc)-- yet they are loyal
readers who send us long letter - like emails from time to time telling us about the
big trips they've planned and asking for travel tips, yet they'd never leave a comment on the
site.
Previously, Chris was a mercenary for many of the net's
biggest game
sites, helping their
readers understand the convoluted world of digital sports.
[Continuing to cross-post the «best of the year» pieces from our
big sister
site for GSW
readers» delectation, in a year which saw the PC become his main gaming device, Gamasutra's Chris Remo takes a look at 15 of 2008's notable PC releases.]
An «Independent» of Ausralias «
Big Media» news
site (www.crikey.com.au) has this
readers contribution today I have Pasted it across for your information and comment perhaps.
Steve: it is an editorial policy of this
site that
readers refrain from efforts to prove or disprove «
big picture» points in a few paragraphs.
It's a well designed
site, and if they can continue to post with some regularity — the
big difficulty for most law blogs — it'll be a
site well worth having on your feed
reader.