Doris-Maria Heilmann's Blog, page 5
September 3, 2017
Blast Off Book Piracy
A month ago I wrote a long blog post about book piracy:
PRO’s and CON’s of Fighting Book Piracy
and gave tips how to avoid that your book is pirated – to collect evidence of the pirated work – and lots of tips how to take these piracy sites down. For example to have Google take-down the web link, to contact the domain registrar and hosting company, even PayPal might help too, and certainly, Amazon can help you as well.
However, removing illegal copies of our content from Google is such a ti...
August 27, 2017
DIY: Translate Your Book
Are you fluently speaking French or Spanish beside your mother language English? Or any other language for that matter? Maybe English is your second language? This way you have a great benefit compared to those who are speaking English only: You might be able to translate your book(s) without paying top dollars for a professional chartered translator. The only expense would be the usual fees for an editor who cleans up and improves the manuscript before it goes to formatting or a print b...
August 17, 2017
The Only Rule Amazon Truly Cares About
MUST-READ warning for writers who sell through Amazon KDP Select by David Gaughran – prompting 64 comments so far. Here are some excerpts:
“Amazon only seems to click into gear if it suffers a PR embarrassment.
Perhaps if we all got on social media and blasted Amazon for what they really are–just a way for Jeff Bezos to become king of the world, perhaps they might do something about the underlying problems. I’ve had my share of nightmares with Amazon and have been thinking mightily about taki...
August 10, 2017
PRO’s and CON’s of Fighting Book Piracy
The Verge reported a year ago: “Google received just over 75 million DMCA-related takedown requests in the month of MARCH, representing a new high. The rate at which requests to take down these sites have grown is truly staggering. Compare that to 2014, when Google handled 345 million requests for the entire year.”
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Scam Sites
This Year, the numbers might be even higher… Alone in the United States, publishers are losing sales in the vicinity of $80 to $100 million thanks to book piracy. Da...
August 4, 2017
Benefits of Getting Your Own ISBN
30% of all e-books sold in the United States lack an ISBN number and are not listed in library and book stores – nor in market surveys or reports by Bowker, AAP, BISG, and Nielsen. So, why do author-publishers don’t obtain their own ISBN’s? Could it be to they want to avoid the fees?
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After all ISBN’s Belong to the Publisher!
If you are the one who has complete control over your book, doing the marketing and distribution, then consider getting your own ISBN. Each version of your book – e-bo...
July 30, 2017
How to Get the Most Out of Social Media
Want to reach more followers on your social media sites? How can you reduce your time for posting – and at the same time reach more visitors? When is the best time to be on social media?
The magic words are sharing and connecting:
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Sharing Buttons: A Must!
Place sharing buttons for Google+, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Reddit etc. on your blog, and then connect all your social media sites with each other.
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Schedule Your Posts on Social Media
Use any of these sites – free...
July 23, 2017
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Available in Print
Imagine you are a little house fly and you could get access to homes and mansions were celebrities and politician reside – being able to get a peek behind closed doors and spying on them.
Take a peek behind the masks of hypocrisy and the walls of deception that lurk and thrive in the mainstream; the secret, desperate lives of sinners, perverts, and criminals that remain usually well hidden in posh mansions from the wrath and condemnation of our society.
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Get now also the print version of th...
July 21, 2017
Want Your Novel in Bookstores?
Imagine to walk into a local Barnes & Noble and find your own book displayed on the shelves…
Before you approach bookstores, make sure your book will pass muster with a book buyer. The Independent Book Publishers Association has published an Industry Standards Checklist for Professionally Published Books. If you want bookstores to carry your book, please make sure you can check every single box on this list before you bring a copy into their store and ask them to carry it.
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In March 2017,...
July 17, 2017
The Kindle Store is Officially Broken
“Amazon’s continued inaction is increasingly baffling,” wrote best-selling author David Gaughran on his blog. Gaughran reported about many incidents, such as the one that happened recently, when a “click-farmed” title hit #1 in the Kindle Store. And Amazon took no action…
“Over the last six weeks, one particularly brazen author has put four separate titles in the Top 10, and Amazon did nothing whatsoever. There are many such examples. I wrote at the start of June about how scammers were ta...
July 16, 2017
Free Trip to Germany & Switzerland – Hurry!
Did you always want to travel the romantic Black Forest region? Or yearn to explore the Jungfraujoch area, to enjoy the stunning Glacier Express route, Interlaken, and to see St. Moritz in Switzerland?
Win a Trip To Europe With Rail Europe!
Join #TalesOnRail in 2017 or for 2018.
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Travel is one of the best ways to find inspiration for creative projects, but it isn’t always easy to get away from work or other everyday life commitments. Creative individuals get now a chance to focus on a pers...
