Not exact matches
With
more than 450,000 self - published titles
released each year,
getting readers to buy your book is no easy task.
2014 will involve fewer Russell Blake
releases and
more attention to each, with forays into romance and NA as RE Blake (following my own counsel to brand different genre offerings differently so Russell Blake fans don't mistakenly pick up an RE Blake «Lust on the Range» tome, or RE Blake
readers don't buy an Assassin or JET book and go, «Where's the sex, and why is everyone
getting killed?»)
That does everyone good — other author
gets a boost, my
readers get something they like (they can't spend all their time just waiting for my next
release), and I gain a bit of additional
reader trust so they're
more likely to stay with me.
Get in good with your genre
readers on Goodreads and you can start to see
more consistent sales for your
releases.
For established clients, agents may assist in
getting their backlists on sale again, and helping
release digital shorts in between larger book
releases (a strategy
more and
more authors are using to keep
readers engaged and earn extra money in the process).
In hopes of
getting even
more people to try the Kindle, Amazon
released the $ 489 Kindle DX this year, which has a large screen and is geared toward textbook and newspaper
readers.
As Joe Konrath has pointed out to me, he
got more readers with traditional publishing, but he's making a LOT
more money with his independently
released ebooks than he ever made in print, and he
got a 6 - figure deal once.
Make sure it's clear what you are announcing, why the
reader of the press
release should care, and where they can
get more info if they're interested.
Simply showing screenshots of a new game is nothing
more than putting unedited press material on a site,
readers quickly realised, that they can
get the press
releases directly from the publisher (e.g. the official site of the game) and that there is no need to rely on press outlets to
get PR material.