Revisiting Amazon Opportunities for Authors

When I self-published my novel MRS. LIEUTENANT in April of 2008 I spent a great deal of time and effort taking advantage of opportunities on Amazon for authors. Hey, it's free book marketing!

I read several books about these opportunities and followed the advice as best I could. But at the time it was extremely difficult (now it is only slightly difficult) to get any information from Amazon when I hit snags.

True confession: Over the last three-and-a-half years I have made some changes to my Amazon information but not all that much.

Then in July I self-published as an ebook the technothriller LT. COMMANDER MOLLIE SANDERS that I wrote with my husband Mitch Miller.

(Actually, Chris O'Byrne did the ebook format conversions.)

And I turned my attention back to Amazon to learn what new opportunities there might be.

Luckily I'm already connected online to self-publishing coach Shelley Hitz and I took her paid webinar on Amazon for Authors. And am I ever glad I did!

Now I'm working on implementing Shelley's fantastic information. (Note that the link above to the product is NOT an affiliate link – nor is the link to Chris O'Byrne's website. Both Shelley's product and Chris' ebook conversion talents I highly recommend.)

When I'm done making the changes (which need to be approved by the appropriate Amazon and Kindle staff so not automatically done), I'll share examples of some of these changes.



And if your books are already on Kindle, here's some great news:

The Amazon French site has just started making available Kindle ebooks. Now there are four Amazon websites that are Kindle enabled: US, UK, Germany, and France.

If you are a Kindle author and did NOT choose to make your Kindle ebooks available worldwide, now is the time to go back and correct this oversight. You do want your Kindle ebooks available on each Amazon country site that offers this opportunity.

P.S. And if you are a book author and not already a member of my LinkedIn group Book Marketing, join now. A lot of great info is shared by the group members.

Plus here are two of my recent book marketing guest posts:

Ask PZM about ebook promotion online and offline

If Your Book Is Available on Amazon Do You Have an Author Page?

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Phyllis Zimbler Miller (@ZimblerMiller on Twitter) has an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and is the co-founder of the marketing consulting company Miller Mosaic, LLC, which offers "done for you" and "do it yourself" social media services including marketing-focused WordPress websites.

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