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5 Rules for Success at Crowd Funding

People who support your crowd-funding campaigns aren’t just money suppliers or future customers; they are also your mentors and teachers – comparable to Beta Readers.
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Just because you love your product or idea, doesn’t mean everyone else will “get it” straight away and open their purse. Here are some tips on how to have a successful campaign on Kickstarter, IndieGogo and other idea incubators:
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1. Start Your Online Presence Early!
Plan at least 4 – 6 months time to prepare your website, b...

Still Worth to be on Amazon’s KDP Select?

Recently an author wrote in a forum: “I’m seriously debating whether or not I should opt out of the KDP Select program (after my three months are up). I’ve had very few borrows to make it pay, so it’s only really the promotion days that seem to be a plus. My last book did okay on free promo, but not a lot of sales to follow.” Well, I have read similar posts during the last two or three years on a regular basis.

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Many authors doubt, as Amazon Kindle Free Days, CountDown Deals and Borrows are...

20 Success Tips from Trade Publishers

Marketingsteps bytraditional publishers are usually for their bestselling authors only. This includesfor example: Advance Book Reviews, posted on the book’s cover, book tours and signings of celebrity authors, lots of media coverage including reviews, speaking engagements, book signing tours, and placing new books at major bookstores who report to bestseller lists. How can author-publishers use the methods of global trade publishers to promote their self-published books?
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7 Million Self-Pu...

How to Negotiate Your Publishing Contract

Generally I am writing for Indie authors, and how they can successfully run their publishing business. However, many of these tips, especially those about book marketing, can be used by “published” authors as well. But in these promising times for author-publishers, there are still many writers who want to go with a trade publisher. As always: Author Beware! Get helpful information in this article, such as the – very detailed – checklist for your publishing contract negotiations.

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Why Money for Online Ads May be Wasted

Rob Eagar, a book publishing consultant, author of “Facebook is holding your Readers Hostage”,wrote another eye-opener about online book advertising and why it doesn’t work.
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Ad-Blocking Software is Growing Rapidly.
The Wall Street Journal recently reported, that “Over 25% of U.S. internet users now employ online ad-blocking software on their desktop computers, according to new research commissioned by the Interactive Advertising Bureau.”
The New York Times reported that ad blocking softwar...

Book-Production in Easy Steps

Are you exhausted after finishing your manuscript?

You invested so much time and talent into your book – and you have a lot of book marketing ahead of you.
Now let the professionals finish your book production: editing, book layout and cover design.
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In the meantime get advanced reviews for the editorial review part of your Amazon page and the back jacket of your print book, prepare your book launch, and spruce up your social media networks.
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A Word of Caution:
NEVER, EVER use the “service...

Why Trade Publishers Become Absolute

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International Bestselling Author, Speaker, Creator of The Bestseller Academy, Kallen Diggsrecently listed all the reasons why traditional publishing is becoming dinosauric in his fabulousarticle The Inevitable Death of Traditional Book Publishers and in detail at his blog:Reaching the Finish Line.
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Trade Publishers: Why Enter the Vanity Publishing Sector?
The first reason might beto “eliminate the competition” and to control self-publishing authors – and secondly to make lots of money out...

Writers: Earning Money on Wattpad?

Wattpad Futures gives the platform’s more than 2.3 million writers a chance to earn income in-story. “In-story ads are placed strategically in chapter breaks of some of the most popular stories on the platform.”
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Kind of Affiliate Program.
Through the Wattpad Futures program, writers can choose to insert ads between chapters of their Wattpad story; every time a reader views an ad, the writer earns money.
Porter Anderson of Publishing Perspectives explains: “ When an ad is available between...

You Could be Paid Twice for Your Book

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If you are a Canadian writer, publisher or visual artist, you could be paid more than oncefor your writing with the help of Access Copyright.
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This organization believes you should be fairly compensated when your books or articles are copied. A study found that 80% of all copies made on copy machines are from books! By becoming an affiliate of Access Copyright, you will have access to services that will help maximize your royalty income for the secondary use of your works. Get detailed in...

AudioFile: 38,500 Audio-Book Reviews

Are you in the planning stage for an audio-book version, or do you have already some produced? Get tips from AudioFile Magazine, which was founded 23 years ago, since then recommending and reviewing audiobooks, profiling audio-book narrators and authors.

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In an interview they explained ACX rights holders how to cast the best voice for their book, and share how to submit for a review. Their – up to 50 reviews a week – are published in a print bi-monthly magazine, weekly e-newsletters, on the...