Before we finish up, I need to share a brutal truth about social media: it's probably not going to result in
a ton of book sales.
To get movie interest you need an agent that specializes in that and the way to inspire the rights sale of your book is to get
a ton of book sales, a lot of media attention, and support from known people who provide strong testimonials for your book.
Not exact matches
It is in the
book (along with
tons of dairy - free living info and many other awesome recipes, if I do say so myself), which can be ordered on Amazon for an insanely good price... but enough with the
sales pitches... I am more than happy to share -LSB-...]
And anyone who wants to create
books for promo and
sale through Amazon can have their pick
of the
ton of html editors, WYSIWYG or otherwise, that you'll find on the web.»
Which you probably aren't: unless you do a
ton of clever promotion and marketing — which you aren't going to do, because you don't know how, and even if you hire a publicist, they'll focus on TV and radio and old school methods that don't actually impact
book sales.
They are highly selective in what specials they will promote in their e-newsletters, but if your
book is chosen, your eBook
sale will get a
ton of exposure and it will be worth the cost
of advertising.»
Thanks to Samantha and her team, I got international as well as national exposure, well over 100 «likes» on my Facebook author page,
book reviews,
tons of new followers on Twitter, and lots
of sales.
We covered a few essential author
sales tools — website, blog, social media, and email — but there are
tons of other ways publishers can empower their authors to boost
book sales, such as:
You should be aware
of the situation, but also know that this massive
book promos aren't the only way to sell
books (I know
tons of authors in multiauthor boxsets who hit the list but don't make money, or see a significant increase in
book sales).
Fake authors such as Flamanca Hollanda are posting a
ton of books and racking up thousands
of dollars in
sales, which Google gets a cut.
The increase in
book sales are likely due to Super Thursday and Civilized Saturday events that received a
ton of mass media attention.
It was a
ton of hard work, but, four years later, I'm really starting to see it pay off as I approach 30,000
book sales across my backlist.
I won't spend a
ton of time on this because we did a blog post on this a while back (read about
book pricing here), but suffice it to say that your
book should be priced for a
sale, not so you can make back all -LSB-...]
In the last 6 months, NovelRank has made a large number
of improvements, including: Research on
sales rank myths, improved kindle
sales estimate accuracy, improved social networking tie - ins,
book analysis, CSV download and RSS feeds for user pages, sorting
of books on user pages, added Amazon.co.uk Kindle
book tracking, worldwide snapshot on user pages, and
tons of little bug fixes and tweaks to speed up the website.
Rather then give Apple a cut
of every eBook
sale,
tons of companies just pulled the ability to buy
books in their apps.
I won't spend a
ton of time on this because we did a blog post on this a while back (read about
book pricing here), but suffice it to say that your
book should be priced for a
sale, not so you can make back all the money you invested.
(Go buy her
books — she's sold a
ton of them, yet talks about how My
Sales Numbers Do Not Determine My Worth.
The
books all had terrible
sales rank and though there wasn't a
ton of competition, there wasn't a lot
of activity in terms
of sales.
There are
tons of ways that networking can turn directly and indirectly to
book sales, deals, and all sorts
of other stuff down the line.
There are a
ton of different ways to light the fire under your
book and
book sales months and even a year after publication.
She whips through 2 - 3
books a week and at those
sale prices she would be saving a
ton of money.
And the end result is that Amazon is making
tons of money on ads — money they don't have to share with authors or publishing houses — while the
books themselves become completely devalued, the publishing houses lose their profit margins in the constant fight to just keep getting some
sales, and authors soon find themselves getting nothing for their
books.
The process is simple, however, making
sales and getting your
book to rank high is a
ton of work.
I am going to use this
sale to speculatively
book a
ton of 3, 4, and 5 night hotel stays that offer free cancellation at cheap hotels, so that all my nights are under $ 20.
For those
of you looking to pick up movies, TV shows,
book, magazines and anything else, there is a
ton of those on
sale as well.
What / Why: «David Curcio's STUDIO
SALE / FUNDRAISER will feature
TONS of my work — old and new — with 50 %
of proceeds to be divided between THE GIFFORD CAT SHELTER and BOSTON CHILDREN»S HOSPITAL TOY AND
BOOK DONATION PROGRAM, because quality
of life is what matters right now, for all
of us.