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A Total Mystery: Number of Pages Read

Still worth to be on Amazon KDP Select?
You might have read this recent blog post here at SavvyBookWriters.com/blog. I just came over a discussion on Amazon KBoards. Title: Amazon is intermittently admitting to errors in it’s KU page reporting. KBoards is a discussion board for owners of Kindles, readers of Kindle e-books, and writers of Kindle e-books.
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Mystery: Number of Pages Read?
Have you ever wondered how Amazon is able to figure out and correctly state how many pages of a certain boo...

New for Prime Members: Free Reading

Amazon sweetened the deal for U.S. Prime Members even more: Add one more perk to Amazon’s Prime subscription service: They recently unveiled “Prime Reading”, which gives Prime subscribers to the $99/yr service access to more than 1,000 Kindle books, as well as magazines and other published works for free.

Unlike Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, Prime Reading titles can be read on any Kindle e-reader or Fire tablet, or using the Kindle reading app for iOS or Android. A Fire or Kindle device...

How to Write Your Memoir

People telling you “you have a great story, you should write a book”might bea kickstart for you to write your memoir.
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The process of writing can help you to understand yourself and others better. Fundamental dynamics of a family, or relationships with friends could have very deep causes.

Multi-Book Author D.G. KayeExplains in an Article:
“Whether writing a novel or writing a memoir, the process is similar, but it has different components. Some might think, writing a memoir is easier than...

111 Tips to Get FREE Book Reviews

COMING SOON:
111 Tips to Get FREE Book Reviews
e-Book, covering the best strategies for getting lots of great reviews – including over 1,200 direct links (clickable links to each website!) to reviewers and book bloggers.

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Book Bloggers and Reviewer contact addresses can be found at the end of each chapter. And if you send us an email, using our contact form at 111Publishing.com, you will receive twice a year the latest reviewer contacts.
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Even More Benefits for REVIEWERS:
Send us a link t...

Most Successful Images on Social Media

No matter if we are writers who want to market our books, e-book-PR or self-employed, trying to sell services, or a famous brand trying to market their products: we all need to learn how we canmarket without words.

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Readers, consumers, and even casual visitors of social media are all flocking to visual platforms, such as: Pinterest,Snapchat,Instagramor GooglePlus.

Since the new DIY design tool Canva came on the scene, more and more people are recognizing the benefits of creating their own...

Want to be Recognized as a Writer?

10,000 hours – 5 years – 5 books published – that’s the minimum a professional author needs – PLUS being educated in the the publishing business, so that predators cannot take advantage of you.

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Artists Train For Years Every Day – for Hours and Hours…
Professions need to be trained! It takes years to become an excellent musician, dancer, singer, painter and writer–and it also takes years to become an excellent publisher. And it involves lots of skills and knowledge business-wise, marketing...

Getting it “Right” on Twitter

Never too early to start: Building your brand on Twitter – or any other social media site – doesn’t work overnight. It takes time and as earlier you start as better for you as an author. You will want to have a largefollowing long BEFORE your book is finished (maybe even before you start writing) in order to have a great start when launching your work.
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Twitter is wildly popular and it’s a great way for you to interact with your community and reader audience. Introduce yourself on Twitter,...

How to Write a Bestseller: The DNA

You might have read about this computer program, which after scanning 20,000 books could predict with eighty-four percent accuracy abook’s success. The authors of The Bestseller Code mined the texts of 20,000 novels, published over the past 30 years.
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Scientists had developed an algorithm which analyses a book and predict whether or not it will be a commercial success. A technique,called statistical stylometry, which mathematically examines the use of words and grammar, was found to be “su...

Success for Self-Publishing Authors?

“If you can IMAGINE it, you can create it” said Napoleon Hill. “Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes” And Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul) said: “People who do not have goals work for people who have goals.”

Here is the SecretforWriters:
One single step every day and in three months you will have a great author platform, and you will have established your author brand. 111 Tips on How to Market Your Book for Free makes it really easy for you. Just follow the small steps...

How Authors Find an Audience

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Authors don’t need a finished manuscript – they need an audience first! Alone in 2015, more than500,000 new English-language books have been published.
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If you are an author with a 90,000 word manuscript ready to roll – just hold your horses – see how much work you have to do to findjust ten people who are willing tobuy your book.
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Make Sure Your Book Has Readers Before You Publish.
If you can’t build a small audience, how can you expect to build a large audience? In order to survive the...