Not exact matches
For years, it has offered advertising on its site, with
targeting capabilities of genre,
reader location, gender, and
age.
Kiki Strike is
targeted at grades 5 to 8, but our own reading and scanning of
reader reviews at various sites indicate that it's likely to appeal to girls at the top end of the
age scale, and beyond - Perhaps it is in recognition of this that the author has her characters
age two years in this first book - they start off 12 years old but are 14 by the end.
Would your
target audience be
readers over the
age of 40?
What are the characteristics of your
target reader such as their
age, gender, education, ethnic, etc?
Some writers write for the sheer personal pleasure, but if you want to reach a wide audience you must look at the
age and interests of the
readers you're
targeting.
If it's just a great story but not groundbreaking, that's OK if
readers love it... which you can prove by getting it into the hands of real
readers of your
target age group — yes you can have them request your book at a library and they will look it up, but they'll check your online reviews and see how it's performing first and whether it has any credible reviewers they recognize.
In order to
target age - appropriate ebooks to the right audience of young
readers, the NOOK book giveaway will be active during a pre-determined window of dates.
Filling the gap between Young Adult and Adult Fiction, NA's
target is
readers are between the
ages of 18 and the mid-20s, times when new adults are first feeling independence and finding their place in the world.
The first is
targeted toward children
readers between
ages ten and twelve.
The e-bookstores could at least enable some check - boxes in the bookstore views, letting
readers sort by
target age (which would also prevent buyers of grownup comics from having to slog through kiddie stuff) or allowing them to exclude self - published material.
Yes, in your genre (or the
age range of the
target readers for the publishers involved anyway), print is still a virtual requirement, so I think your choice makes complete sense for you and your situation.