Word of mouth is very powerful, so even if one
person got my book for free, there's a good chance that if they liked it, they will tell other people about it.
Not exact matches
To really be
free,
people need to
get over their fear and reverence
for this mismatch collection of bronze - aged
books, and CHOOSE to view God as being greater than the Bible.
There is so much
free medical care readily available
for these folks that it's easier to
get appointments at the
free clinics than it is
for an insured
person who pays her bills to
get on the
books at the regular medical center.
I don't like to pressure
people into buying my
books, but I love inviting
people to
get my
books for free!
If I do publish more
books, and I am able to send them out
for free to
people who
get my blog updates, I will do so.
Anna
got the original recipe
for these cookies in the
book, The Weekend Baker: Irresistible Recipes, Simple Techniques, and Stress
Free Strategies
for Busy
People by Abigail Johnson Dodge.
People think they're
getting a «
free» education at government schools, while they're actually contributing a lot of money
for homework, report
books, desks, water, toilets, substitute teachers, uniforms and more.»
Instead they are hitting rock bottom with giving their
books away
for free to get people to read them, and once this FREE level is saturated, these so - called writers will have nowhere left to
free to
get people to read them, and once this
FREE level is saturated, these so - called writers will have nowhere left to
FREE level is saturated, these so - called writers will have nowhere left to go.
Giving your best work away
for free might seem counterintuitive but it's a great way to 1) reassure buyers your
books are high - quality, 2)
get the right
people to tell their tribe about your
book and 3) gain the ability to communicate with prospective readers in hopes you can convert them to buyers of your
book.
(AP)-- Amazon.com Inc. is trying to
get more
people to buy the electronic
books that are compatible with its Kindle gadget by offering
free software
for people to read them on a computer.
I kept thinking, «There have to be thousands of
people out there who would love to
get free books for review.
Authors has seen thousands of
free downloads generating no reviews and no sales afterwards:
people wait
for the next 5
free days to
get your
books!
Informing
people that I've freely shared years of
free blog posts,
free advice, weekly #BookMarketingChat, and a new guide on
book marketing that's less than $ 5 bucks
gets me called out
for «virtue signaling» — so, how do we maintain having ethical standards and not give in?
When I did a
free book giveaway
for «Inner Demons» last year at Goodreads, I was surprised when I
got a bad review by one of the
people who signed to win the
book.
Barnes & Noble content and tablet subsidiary Nook Media, part - owned by Microsoft specifically to help boost content
for its new Windows 8 platform, today put some of that strategy into action: it has announced that
people who download the Nook app
for Windows 8 will
get five
books and five magazines
free of charge.
Run $ 15 in Facebook ads to
get your
free book in front of the PERFECT readers (using ads now you can combine interests, so I can target
people who like YA mermaid
books AND Twilight,
for example.
If you aren't doing an event in a bookstore, you could choose a venue such as a charming local wine bar — something that has been popular with our events is to include on the invitation that the first 20 (or whatever)
people to come or to buy a
book (your choice) will
get a ticket
for a
free glass of wine.
Thank you
for the info Vinny, now I think I see, You'd like a blog about marketing from lil» ol' me, Promote only when you are in a happy mood, And never promote your
books by being far too rude, Try to make your posts interesting, clever and funny, And try not to part with a large amount of money, Now I feel there is one thing I should stress, Never go and give your cash to a vanity press, Blog, tweet and update your Facebook status as often as you can, Make contact with other authors and befriend your only fan, Be courteous, considerate and always be kind, And you will slowly find, You'll
get people interested and make them all see, Especially when you give your book away for free, Sit back, relax and be rather nice, And always think about the price, People will not part with their cash unless the price is low, Particularly for an author they do not even know, Always remember to write purely for fun, Never think that your profit will be a huge great sum, And pray for exposure to the lord above, Because self - publishing is a labour of
people interested and make them all see, Especially when you give your
book away
for free, Sit back, relax and be rather nice, And always think about the price,
People will not part with their cash unless the price is low, Particularly for an author they do not even know, Always remember to write purely for fun, Never think that your profit will be a huge great sum, And pray for exposure to the lord above, Because self - publishing is a labour of
People will not part with their cash unless the price is low, Particularly
for an author they do not even know, Always remember to write purely
for fun, Never think that your profit will be a huge great sum, And pray
for exposure to the lord above, Because self - publishing is a labour of love,
People don't respect something they
get for free and, since there are millions of other
free books, chances are they won't even read yours.
Be grateful
for any reviews you
get (even the bad ones): these
people will read your
book in their
free time.
Well, first of all, this is brilliant marketing
for you because
people who don't buy your
book might still go to your website and maybe
get your
free download.
Conversely, when I looked at
free reviews, mostly I found
people just trying to
get free books and,
for lack of a better word, something of an unofficial circle jerk.
A great way to
get more exposure is to provide
free copies of your
book to
people in exchange
for reviews, which also
gets copies of your
book circulating.
Admittedly, this method works best if you have more than one
book out there, because then
people who
got the
free book will pay
for later
books.
The reason I kept the
book quiet even though it was listed on Amazon at a puny $ 0.99 was because I wanted the least amount of friction possible
for people to download the
book... and
free is about as friction-less as it
gets.
Oyster charges $ 9.95 a month
for access to more than 100,000
books from big and small publishers, but it now offers users one
free month with the hope of
getting more
people to try the app experience.
FREE PREVIEW of Night People in an Easy - To - Read online format: • Adjustable font sizes for reading comfort • Direct link to purchase book from Amazon • Download link to get the free Kindle app if you need it • or send it to your Kindle dev
FREE PREVIEW of Night
People in an Easy - To - Read online format: • Adjustable font sizes
for reading comfort • Direct link to purchase
book from Amazon • Download link to
get the
free Kindle app if you need it • or send it to your Kindle dev
free Kindle app if you need it • or send it to your Kindle device!
Instead of solely distributing advanced reader copies (ARCs) to
book bloggers or reviewers via Netgalley or Edelweiss, allocate a few copies
for a
free giveaway that
gets people excited to read your
book, even if they don't win one of those
free copies.
Anybody can
get their
book onto the Amazon store
for free — but few
people know how to do it properly.
And don't forget to click the graphic to the right to
get your three
free reports: Remembering the 5th P: Infusing
People into Your
Book Marketing Plan, Write Your Recipe: Define Your Ideal Readers and Turn Them into Buyers, and
Book Marketing Snapshot, or if you're not quite there yet, my 5 Can't Live Without
Books for Serious Writers resource guide.
It's OK to ask only
for people who can read it soon, and hopefully review — and that they'll also be able to
get the
book for free on Kindle later.
Why do
people buy paper
books from Amazon when they can
get them
for free at their library?
Most
people pirate
books because of the money factor and most
book sharing clubs allow their members to lend and
get lent
books for free.
Library sales still count, and if
people get my
books there
for free and like them, they're more likely to pay cash money
for their own copies in the future.
I worked with some chick name Sidney and some F * & (named Eugene Hoskins that said my
book was priced too high ($ 30 since I thought I was
getting 50 % of my royalties like it said in my contract I thought that
people could
get free shipping) but no... he ruined my contract and they sent me my first royalty check
for a whopping $ 2.50 and magically the royalty paper has vanished.
People who signed up
for the list gave us their email so that they would
get a reminder when the
book came out and download it
for free.
Offering a
free eBook to everyone who enters the contest is a win - win
for everyone involved: Your
books get into the hands of more readers and it definitely encourages more readers to sign up... so you
get more
people on your mailing list who are genuinely interested in the fiction you write.
There's a never - ending stream of
people upset that the US
gets things first and that
free book offers are only
for the US.
Traditional publishing often takes several years, so it may seem impossible to time the market — but most trends last longer than you'd think, and it's pretty easy to determine whether you want to write something that hits more popular terms (the more you can match what
people are actively looking
for, the more
free, organic visibility your
book will
get, and the easier it will be to sell.
Amazon is known
for its strong recommendation engine, where it displays titles that might be of interest to customers as part of «Customers Who Bought This Also Bought...» Of course, you can't
get into this promotion area if
people haven't bought your
book — which is why offering your new title
for free or at a discount
for a limited time when you're launching is a great strategy!
Reporters with a legitimate interest in covering a
book are * always * able to make a convincing case; when
people get nasty, it's generally a sign they're gunning
for free books.
You can create one email in your follow up sequence that tells
people that there is a way
for them to
get access to your
books first and that they can read your
books for free by being part of your
book reviewer team.
They'll even make their older
books available
for free or
for a couple of dollars so it's a really easy buy in
for someone and those
people get hooked.
That's why I was thinking that one way to actually make (potential) exposure to that many
people work
for the author wasn't to sell the
books on the table but to work a promotion to
get people to read a
free e-book or significant sample on a web site after they
got home.
During those days, you can purchase ads and other promotions to
get as many
people to download your
book for free as possible.
If a
book doesn't sell, DMG has essentially just
gotten people to work on the
book for free.
My plan...
get book # 3 in a series out and try BookBub... then offer a
book for free for anyone joining my mailing list... My blog hits over 950
people — how do we KNOW that it's not as viable as a mailing list?
Initially, I wondered if
people would stop buying my
books if they could
get them
for free as part of their KU subscription.
I'd been
getting e-mails and tweets from fans who were ravenous
for the
book, and when I launched it
free, it felt like all I did was to give it away to
people who were dying to pay
for it.
NOTE: If your stance is that copyright is evil and «all information wants to be
free» and that
people shouldn't
get paid
for creating music or writing a
book or researching a newspaper article (but that you should
get paid
for fixing
people's computers or writing car dealership advertisements or whatever you do
for a living), then I don't think we'll see eye to eye and you may as well move on to another blog.