How Authors Can Reach the Majority of Readers FREE
Posted on August 17, 2008
If you are an author of a book, writing a book now, or hope to write a book someday, here are some important statistics for you from Mert Erkal and the Internet Business Blog Search for Blogging site
- Over 12 million American adults currently maintain a blog.
- More than 147 million Americans use the Internet.
- Over 57 million Americans read blogs.
- 1.7 million American adults list making money as one of the reasons they blog.
- 89% of companies surveyed say they think blogs will be more important in the next five years.
- 9% of internet users say they have created blogs .
- 6% of the entire US adult population has created a blog .
- Technorati is currently tracking over 70 million blogs .
- over 120 thousand blogs are created every day .
- There are over 1.4 million new blog posts every day .
- 22 of the 100 most popular websites in the world are blogs .
- 120,000 new blogs are created every day .
- 37% of blog readers began reading blogs in 2005 or 2006 .
- 51% of blog readers shop online .
- Blog readers average 23 hours online each week .
If you don’t blog, and wonder how you could sell more books, attract readers for you book, or make money as an author. You have your answer here.
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Hey, this is one of the greatest ideas to promote books among readers. I have a blog on my site, and I posted a blog related to my books. I received a lot of responses from people. This works great, as we get the comment on our book from the readers directly.
These are some interesting statistics! Where did you find these Warren?
LOL Nevermind! I read the post too fast without reading the first part! Keep the good content coming!
Wow I had no idea so many people read blogs regularly. I guess I fit right in the crowd, which is odd for me - because I started reading blogs a little in ‘06.
Ronda
Very interesting statistics on the blog phenomenon. What I would also like to know is the number of blogs promoting books and the some of the top ten blogs by authors. This would help me as I have started a blog for my book, Create Your Garden of Eden: Change Your World in 7 Days Like God Did.
As a new author, I am very appreciative of your book marketing tips.
Elizabeth Mannette
author
http://www.CreateYourGOE.com
Fantastic stats…interesting the huge amount of blogs Technorati is tracking!
I really look forward to when Google starts to scan books and put the on Internet. This will give us a lot easier access to great books.
Using a blog to promote anything is one of the most powerful ways of building and developing not only friendships, but developing a list and also helping to make some more cash for you. Thanks for the quality post!
Wow, 120,000 blogs are created a day?
Wow 120,000 blogs are created a day?