Well consider that it's then something that's going to come up in Google
searches by potential readers and potential future publishers of her work.
She's probably the key speaker on issues of metadata at publishing conferences and the kind of soul who doesn't mind a rather basic question from someone trying to learn more about this fundamental element of publishing in the digital age — the metadata by which a book is tracked by professionals and discovered in
searches by potential readers.
Not exact matches
A good author bio introduces your
potential reader to you and also helps
search engines pull your author website more easily
by using keyword - rich descriptions when you enter your book metadata.
This should tell publishers that there might be some
potential in developing their own e-reading apps, especially if they were able to offer incentives for in - app purchasing, but
by and large, that would require
readers to not only know the title and possibly author of the book they want to purchase, but even to know the publisher in order to
search in the correct app.
Accurate metadata helps your eBook to be discovered
by potential readers searching for books
by author, genre, subject matter, and other standard information fields.