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Joanna Penn shares tips on getting your book on Kindle, in ways that readers will like

With e-reader prices dropping like a stone and major tech players jumping into the book retail business, what room is left for publishers’ profits? The surprising answer: ads. They’re coming soon to a book near you.

To understand why this is inevitable, consider the past few years. The historically staid and technology-averse publishing ecosystem has been ripped apart and transformed.

Take the first seven months of 2010 alone: In April, Apple came out with the iPad and quickly sold over three million units. Apple also launched its own proprietary bookstore, iBooks. In June, Barnes & Noble lowered the price of …

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If you have a book in Kindle format on Amazon, you soon will be able to embed a sample chapter on any web site. Reader can browse and instantly purchase.

Those who don’t buy the Kindle edition or want a hard copy will still be able to use the Kindle For the Web version to sample.

We wanted to put up a sample of my “Twitter Revolution: How Social Media and Mobile Marketing is Changing the Way We Do Business & Market Online” but found that the controls weren’t getting us to the web version. (though we did put a new reader on a PC and get the sample.. but that’s another post

Kindle for the Web Beta is designed to be embedded on our Associates’ websites and blogs. Embedding this new feature will allow you to display samples of best-selling Kindle title to your readers in an attractive and inviting fashion. Your readers will be able to initiate their Kindle book purchase easily from this feature.

We’d like to invite you to learn more on Kindle for the Web Beta by visiting our information page at http://www.amazon.com/kindlefortheweb. Recommending books has never been so easy, interactive, and attractive.

Share a book sample

• Book samples can be made visible on any website that supports embedded content. If you can add script tags to your site or blog, you can post a sample.
• First, click the "Embed" button, visible on the right side of the screen when viewing any book sample. You will then see the code to embed. Click on "Customize" if you would like to change the width and height of the window or add your associate tag.
• After making any customization changes, simply copy the embed code and paste it into the source code of your website or blog.
• You may also share book samples via email, Facebook, or Twitter by clicking the "Share" button on the right side of the sample screen.

I help authors sell books, build a business and take their messages to the world.

We do that in two ways here.. a lot of free information on the web, and high paid clients. Unless I get a crazy idea to test new software and give away the paid consulting.

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More than a decade ago, while working in the computer hardware industry, I saw some data on the trajectory of screen resolution and capacities for the future.

Many pundits were saying that screens as good as paper were coming very soon, but one smart futurist showed us a graph of memory and processor capacities, the number of pixels and resolutions of display materials and just what it would take to have screens that weren’t a strain on eyes and cheap enough to be ubiquitously available.

The DATE for his chart where all of this came together was 2010.

Recent announcement of Apple’s iPad, improvements in Amazon Kindle devices and a multitude of other readers confirm what we’ve known is coming… That feeling that books are a better way to read is going to start fading away.

You may be like the hundreds of authors and readers I’ve talked to over the past decade who claim that they will never enjoy reading on a computer as much as holding a book. Culturally, that makes sense. We’ve had decades of lousy screens and centuries of wonderful books.

Book aren’t going away anytime soon. However, every author should get ready for a much more rapid growth in eBook and alternative electronic distribution.

We’ve been advising clients to get an eBook reader, try out the technologies.. see where the clash among format, digital rights management, hardware vendors and publisher is moving. Feel for yourself where the market is going.

One of the last big hurdles has been the complaint that you don’t get to own a hard cover book when you purchase an eBook.. and must rely on the storage system that too often breaks down.

That’s changing too.

Watch what Calibre Ebook Management Software has to offer.

I suggest downloading a copy to manage all those downloads you can’t find on your hard drive. You may still not ever read them, but just watching this video, I could see real progress from the tools I was using just a few years back.

Apple got us all using MP3 when they got the iPod right.. Maybe they will do this for books.. maybe not.

What do you think?

Coming to the Kindel?

The New York Times reported

Touchco uses a technology called interpolating force-sensitive resistance, which it puts into displays that can be completely transparent and could cost as little as $10 a square foot. The capacitive touch screens used in the iPad and iPhone are considerably more expensive. Unlike those screens, the Touchco screens can also detect an unlimited number of simultaneous touch points.

The e-ink technology used in today’s Kindle products is much easier on the eyes than the lighted displays of most devices but we know that on screen viewing will continue to improve.

Do you need color on your book reading app?

Reading more on the Amazon/Macmillin dispute and the old school bullying tactics both are using in the fight.

I’ve stated in previous posts my position.. I think the consumer (readers) will ultimately control what price we can sell a book for.

Amazon is letting the market decide.

Dear Customers:

Macmillan, one of the “big six” publishers, has clearly communicated to us that, regardless of our viewpoint, they are committed to switching to an agency model and charging $12.99 to $14.99 for e-book versions of bestsellers and most hardcover releases.

We have expressed our strong disagreement and the seriousness of our disagreement by temporarily ceasing the sale of all Macmillan titles. We want you to know that ultimately, however, we will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan’s terms because Macmillan has a monopoly over their own titles, and we will want to offer them to you even at prices we believe are needlessly high for e-books. Amazon customers will at that point decide for themselves whether they believe it’s reasonable to pay $14.99 for a bestselling e-book. We don’t believe that all of the major publishers will take the same route as Macmillan. And we know for sure that many independent presses and self-published authors will see this as an opportunity to provide attractively priced e-books as an alternative.

Kindle is a business for Amazon, and it is also a mission. We never expected it to be easy!

Thank you for being a customer

What do you think?

The Wall Street Journal reports:

The $9.99 best seller that helped Amazon.com Inc. build a dominant position in the now-thriving e-book market was at risk of extinction Sunday after Amazon capitulated in a battle sparked by the launch of Apple Inc.’s new iPad.

Amazon conceded defeat Sunday evening after halting sales of all books published by Macmillan in a dispute over higher e-book prices. Having made the $9.99 e-book a fixture, Amazon now faces the prospect of raising its prices to match new terms Apple is offering publishers.

This is not over folks. We’re going to see a continued power play from the old school publishers as the Amazon Kindle, Apple iPad and others take over the market.

As we discussed here, the winner will be the player that controls distribution. Will that be the traditional publishers?

I caught a discussion among some writers about titles missing from Kindle when a publisher doesn’t like Amazon’s pricing.

Some suggested that Amazon better be careful now that Apple has announce the iPad.. the giant iPod touch the will be out soon… claiming “the timing couldn’t be worse for Amazon”

The timing couldn’t be better.

Amazon, Apple, or somebody is going to discover new ways of getting books to people. Whoever does will win the ebook distribution war.

The Apple iPod was not the first mp3 player.. Jobs was the first to take on the music publishers and win. The “game changer” is not the pretty new hardware.. it will be the distribution deals that give consumers what they want.

Imagine a future where the quantity of books sold without killing a tree equals the number of ringtones purchased. Sure, there would be some low prices, some piracy, some

I can’t say where things will end.. but it’s clear that we won’t be going back to publishing of yesterday. That’s gone for good.

Amazon.com, along with Penguin Group (USA) and CreateSpace, is pleased to announce the third annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, the international competition seeking the next popular novel. For the first time, the competition will award two grand prizes: one for General Fiction and one for Young Adult Fiction. The 2010 competition is open to unpublished and previously self-published novels waiting to be discovered. Each winner will receive a publishing contract with Penguin, which includes a $15,000 advance.

Manuscript submissions are now being accepted through February 7, 2010, at 11:59 p.m. (U.S. Eastern Standard Time), or when 5,000 entries have been received in each category, whichever is earlier.

Go to www.createspace.com/abna to register and submit your manuscript following the instructions on the entry form.

My friend Gail Kingsbury called to tell me about her new book and the fabulous stories inside.

I said “I didn’t even know you were working on a book.. How did you fit that in your schedule?”

The answer.. a collaborative effort. Working together, the co-authors were able to high quality material together, join together for to promote it and have a best seller in record time.

We’ve used this process over and over to create books. What’s different this time is the fabulous concept of successful people sharing their story of “How Did You Do That”

They want to get fast results in launching the book and have over delivered fo anyone that grabs the book today.

A great model for authors.

Some inspiration for those writing a book and/or a great gift idea.

I just ordered my copy. I suggest you pick up one or more today.

Paper books are winding down. We’ll have them around for a long time to come, but the kids going into college now are going to bring the future faster than you think

Joel West postulated these 3 reasons why Amazon will get out of the ebook business

Amazon‘s (AMZN) Achilles heel is the proprietary mobi format against everyone else’s e-pub, but if college students are using a book viewer for 4 years and renting books for one semester, this becomes almost a non-issue.

Moving from selling dead tree books (with printing costs and inventory risk) to renting e-books will reduce the publishers’ costs dramatically. If publishers don’t share those savings with consumers — given the student and politician outcry about textbook prices — there will be hell to pay. I suspect, however, that most will play games with planned obsolescence in hopes of keeping their margins up.

I doubt the e-book reader is a separate category over the long term. To me, it seems obvious that the e-reader will go the way of the pocket camera and the MP3 player as a dead-end stand-alone device.

I think it’s still early. We don’t know who will win the hardware wars

However, every author and publisher needs to look at how to profit from the move away from selling dead trees

I have a delightful business model. I get to help authors with good books to share reach new markets and readers with their message.

We have some fun, make a living and live for notes like this..

Thank-you for your tremendous support in helping in promoting Dan’s campaign last Tuesday. We reached the Amazon Best Seller list in RiskBuster’s three categories – hitting the #1 spot in Home Based.

Thanks to all our fantastic partners we had terrific campaign results, without the commitment of partners like yourself this would not have been possible!

We look forward to partnering with you again the near future and reciprocating in promotion of your product and service

Joining a book promotion is easy. Most allow just about any author to participate. The only requirement is a basic understanding of the Law of Reciprocity.. that is you will start a powerful attracting force when you GIVE without expectation of immediate return. The more you give, the more you get.

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A few years back, I helped an author become an instant best seller with his book Think Two Products Ahead. It topped the Amazon Best Seller List for non-fiction for a week and was #2 overall (beat only by the wizardy of Harry Potter)

Through that process, I got to know an extraordinary man named Ben Mack.

We’ve become friends and now mastermind together on projects large and small.

How You Can Join A Mastermind And Make Your Book A Best Seller

I’ve been working with legendary brand-marketing genius Ben Mack with his new weekly 7-Person mastermind groups and I see how this what we need to do, you and me.

Ben Mack is a guy who sold $250 MILLION worth of yo-yo’s and was a VP at Cingular where we had a $500 MILLION marketing budget.

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So you know that his strategies work BIG and if you want to learn more about how I’m applying this to authors you will join us Saturday to learn the exact details about how a small 7-person mastermind with me can get you the success for your book you deserve.

This isn’t a coaching thing — this is you getting a chance to be in a peer-mastermind group with me.

This is especially for authors wanting to start writing a new book or have a book about to be published.

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YOU KNOW getting this kind of hands-on coaching on making your book profitable from the start is what will ensure you are best prepared to get your book the best seller sales you deserve.

It’s time to get to getting your book done right,

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