Learn how to increase book sales potential by making better
use of your book metadata.
Now, within the contents of this self - publishing course, we want you to learn how to increase your book sales by making better
use of your book metadata.
Not exact matches
And don't be afraid to
use available editing tools when writing
book description
metadata; the
use of bolded text and paragraph breaks, where appropriate, can give you an advantage when readers are conducting Google and Amazon searches.
While the
book is in edits, I start loading the
book and the
book's
metadata up on distributor and retail sites (which can be, if you
use a lot
of distributors, something
of a tedious process).
One
of the most important elements
of your
book marketing plan is your
book metadata and how you
use it.
GoodReads
used its API to gather
book cover art, the number
of pages, and other critical
metadata.
This right includes, without limitation, the right to: (a) reproduce, index and store Digital
Books on one or more computer facilities, and reformat, convert and encode Digital
Books; (b) display, market, transmit, distribute, sell and otherwise digitally make available all or any portion
of Printed
Books & Digital
Books through A&A Properties, for customers and prospective customers to download, access, copy and paste, print, annotate and / or view online and offline, including on portable devices; (c) permit customers to «store» Digital
Books that they have purchased from us on servers («Virtual Storage») and to access and re-download such Digital
Books from Virtual Storage from time to time both during and after the term
of this Agreement; (d) display and distribute (i) your trademarks and logos in the form you provide them to us or within Printed
Books & Digital
Books (with such modifications as are necessary to optimize their viewing), and (ii) portions
of Printed
Books & Digital
Books, in each case solely for the purposes
of marketing, soliciting and selling Printed
Books & Digital
Books and related A&A Printing offerings; (e)
use, reproduce, adapt, modify, and distribute, as we determine appropriate, in our sole discretion, any
metadata that you provide in connection with Digital
Books; and (f) transmit, reproduce and otherwise
use (or cause the reformatting, transmission, reproduction, and / or other
use of) Digital
Books as mere technological incidents to and for the limited purpose
of technically enabling the foregoing (e.g., caching to enable display).
The information you provide for the «About the
Book» will also be
used as a description
of your eBook and as
metadata (descriptive information that will be available to consumers) supplied to distributors.
As «big data» becomes more prevalent in our society, it's likely that even the text
of your
book will eventually be
used as
metadata.
While it's a bit
of an obstacle to be a lesser - known author, the keywords you
use in your
book's
metadata make it possible for readers to organically discover you through their natural online searching.
In addition, the
metadata of books can be edited
using this e-pub reader.
Here are the key principles that publishers and authors alike
use to create what should become a masterpiece
of your
book marketing and an essential piece
of your
book metadata.
(Example: Witches, Demons, Teen Series, YA Romance) These keywords will become part
of what is called
Metadata (the data about your
book), and will be
used to help connect readers with your
book.
ONIX: Advanced Topics (May 30) builds upon the knowledge
of ONIX gained through the Essentials training course, and covers more advanced features
of book metadata, identifiers, and ONIX for
Books, including its
use with ebooks and the latest features
of ONIX 3.0.
What McIntyre has discovered, the hard way, is that the «
metadata» procedures
used in publishing today is not capturing and displaying correctly the names
of artists other than writers attached to
book projects.
Search engines will
use your
book metadata as essentially an information retrieval system, their goal being to connect searchers with the most relevant and engaging type
of content.
In either situation, we will enhance your
metadata including the description, author's bio, images,
book categories, BISAC subject heading codes, content flow, consistency and the
use of SEO best practices to attract organic readers through keywords.
According to Bowker, «
using ISBNs allows you to better manage your
book's
metadata, and ensure maximum discoverability
of your
book».
You'll
use them in the designated spaces in your
book's listing, but also as part
of your
book's description and possibly even your
book's title or other
metadata.
I think your lads and their wild oats are safe unless you start trying to
use metadata tags that traverse them out
of the country and into the children's
books sections
of online stores.
The UK study
uses Nielsen
Book's bibliographic data and its BookScan retail sales data to judge what correlation exists between the completeness
of metadata and the resultant sales.
PressBooks
uses the WordPress visual editor for managing text and images, but adds some new features such as Add Part, Add New Chapter,
Book Information for
metadata and,
of course, Export to EPUB.
The keywords you
use in your
book's
metadata are the words and phrases you choose as the most important descriptors
of your
book.
100 % free and safe; Quick, efficient conversions from word to epub; No contents or quality losing; Set cover, edit
metadatas, edit table
of contents, make professional ebook; Amazingly easy to
use, just need edit word documents and click on «Publish»; Generate EPUB, MOBI, AZW, AZW3, PDF
books in one software; Import EPUB, MOBI, AZW, AZW3, HTML, TXT to Word, you can
use ePUBee Maker as eBook Editor or eBook Reader.
While dealing directly with all these stores will grant you the highest royalties, it means you need to upload your
book files and
metadata individually
using each
of their publishing platforms.
Bookmasters
uses the latest industry technology to make our publishers» and authors» title information available to the U.S. and international publishing industry trade while working with you to ensure the accuracy
of your
books»
metadata.
Learn how to improve the description
of your
book, and improve its
metadata, when
using Amazon KDP.
As with our printed
book sales and distribution services, Bookmasters
uses the latest industry technology to make our publishers» and authors» eBook title information available to the U.S. and international publishing industry trade while working with you to ensure the accuracy
of your
books»
metadata.
Ebooks will still have to be sold and marketed, just in different ways as there will be far less reliance on an upfront advance buy - in, but far more reliance on ongoing marketing through the
use of content and
metadata — as well as user - generated content and promotion tools to get the
book marketed.
opf, there are a bunch
of official
metadata fields, and a generic «meta» tag that contains all sorts
of things, only a handful
of which are
used by the current software (you could, for instance, unpack a
book, edit the «text - to - speech disabled» flag, and pack it back up).
Success in
book publishing continues to rely extensively on the consistent preparation and
use of product
metadata.
I would suggest instead
of buying copies
of your own
book along with John Grisham's, you
use your time and any money working on
metadata.
I guide my authors through this process and make intelligent
use of metadata, keywords, beta readers, and early reviews to enhance the
book's visibility and discoverability online.