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Textbooks Will Lead Us Away From Books

November 23, 2009

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 [...]

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New Service For Authors From Amazon.com

March 20, 2008

Amazon continues to grow into it’s goal to take over the e-commerce world:
From ReadWriteWeb:
Amazon wants to do for physical product shipping what it’s done for web storage and computing power – leverage its surplus infrastructure built up by Amazon.com to offer cheap and easy infrastructure for all kinds of other activities.

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Did You Ask People To Buy Your Book?

February 22, 2008

I spent some time with Andy Beal last year. He’s an expert at the kind of marketing I’ve been telling authors to use, and his book Radically Transparent: Monitoring and Managing Reputations Online will be a must read for any authors wanting to attract readers online and build strong relationships fast.
I read Andy’s blog [...]

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The Secret to Selling Books Online

February 9, 2008

Selling books online is faster, easier and more profitable than traditional book store sales, yet most authors are missing out on most of these sales because they haven’t learned the secret to online book promotion.
I am going to tell you the secret, and give you a quick action plan to start using the secret right [...]

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Is It Okay To Sell Your Books?

February 4, 2008

I just received an email message from a PR person that wanted to drag me into an online discussion on the validity of best seller book marketing campaign.
I responded here
So typical of PR people. They want to follow some sort of rule in a marketplace that they can no longer control (not that they ever [...]

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Connect Online: Easy New Way To Sell Your Book

February 2, 2008

Are you using these resources to sell your book?
To sell books, you need to be seen.
There are social networking sites for every interest.. Authors are networking
with readers to sell more book.
Here’s a few you can easily join FREE and use to attract readers, sell books and grow your own network.
** Amazon.com **
The biggest community totally focused [...]

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Getting Noticed Online.. How Authors Can Quickly Get a Web Presence

January 4, 2008

I’ve been reading the comments from my last post, and compiling a list of the topics that we’ll be posting here, and tweaking some of the offering to make sure we get you what you need to market your book in 2008.
Thanks to those that commented. And if you haven’t yet submitted a comment, this is a [...]

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