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Smashwords Book Marketing Guide
Ebook By Mark CokerRating:
(5) Published: Dec. 22, 2008
Category: Non-Fiction » Business & Economics » Marketing
Words: 9703 (approximate)
Language: English
Ebook Description
This free marketing primer provides authors actionable advice on how to market their books on Smashwords. It starts with an overview of how Smashwords helps promote your book, and then provides a series simple do-it-yourself marketing tips. The book is useful to all authors, even those who don't yet publish on Smashwords. Updated October 24, 2009.Tags
book promotion, book publicity, ebook marketing, ebook promotion, pr, promotion, public relations, publicity, smashwords, social mediaAvailable Ebook reading formats:
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Reviews
Log-in to write a Review Log-in to add a Video ReviewReview by: Bonnie Turner on Mar. 08, 2010 :
This is a great marketing guide for today's e-publishers! The conversational style is easy to read and understand. I already use some of Mark's suggestions, but there are some I hadn't thought of.
Bonnie
Review by: Jerry Hooten on Mar. 06, 2010 :
Good grief! I forgot to give the five star rating. My bad!
Jerry
Review by: Jerry Hooten on Mar. 06, 2010 : (no rating)
I've downloaded this book and the Stylebook for my writers group. The two books provide enough "How-to" to get any writer started with ebooks. I like the straight talk and easy directions provided by these books. I personally use them both.
www.jerryhooten.com
Review by: Kellen Lynch on Feb. 21, 2010 :
Mark continues his tour de force of providing the most straightforward guides possible. If you want to thoroughly market your work, this guide is the key. While I knew some of the things that this guide goes over, Mark provides readers/authors with so many new possibilites as well as tips to better utilize the tools I was already using.
A must read.
Review by: Greg McQueen on Dec. 09, 2009 :
Mark's straightforward writing style makes it easy to grasp his ideas, and I came away from the book a lot more savvy about how to utilise many of the websites that I already use daily.
Greg
http://www.ireallyshouldbewriting.net/
Review by: Wayne Watson on Nov. 24, 2009 : (no rating)
Excellent!- lots of new ideas- some of which I have already followed up with and more that I will use soon.
I'm also pleased to see that some of my own ideas are confirmed- especially those around using blogging as a promotional tool!
I started my main blog http://oswaldbastable.blogspot.com/
with a view to promoting my book when I finished it. The blog now has taken on a life of it's own and is in the top 50 New Zealand blogs (yes, I know- big frog- small pond!)
;-)
Review by: Anne Lyken-Garner on Sep. 28, 2009 :
I found this book extremely helpful. It's well-written and all instructions are easy to follow. Thank you for an inspirational and informative guide.
Review by: Sheila O'Kelly on Aug. 07, 2009 :
This is a great practical guide to promoting your e-book. It includes many tips that are obvious when someone points them out. And some others that I can't wait to try like going on a blog book tour. Wish I had read it before I went headlong into promoting my own one.
Review by: William von Reese on Apr. 20, 2009 : (no rating)
Like a stepladder offered a novice bareback horseman, this book readily gave me a leg up, providing useful help at an appropriate (entry) level. Thank you, Mark Coker. (May I call you "Mark"?)
The prospect of editing one's marked-up (npi) html file, returned by Amazon/Kindle, is truly daunting. How does one use those "tags" so fliply mentioned? Equally scary is learning Microsoft Script Editor (Word>Tools>Macros). Don't want to go there.
So thanks again, Mark. How sweet it is to submit one's book in familiar .doc format--and let Meatgrinder do all the work!
Review by: George Angus on Apr. 01, 2009 : (no rating)
I arrived here from a blog post over at Editor Unleashed. Timely indeed, since I am just about finished authoring an ebook, and I've had no clue about how to market the work.
Well, I spent the time reviewing the entire site and decided to sign up. After signing up the first thing I did was read this guide, and I'm so glad I did. The guide is spot-on in terms of the marketing advice. I'm a blogger and the tools that Mark mentions here pertain to a blog site as well, and I know they work.
The writing style is real and conversational. The tips are great.
This HAS to be your first read at Smashwords.
George
Review by: Christopher Pinckley on Mar. 28, 2009 :
Like all of Mark's works here at smashwords, if you are an independent author then you would be a fool not to read it. I consider myself one of the more successful independent guerilla marketing authors out there, so I am always skeptical that anyone is going to suggest something that I haven't tried or am not presently doing. And yet, I found a few very useful items for marketing myself and my book within the epages of this book.
I highly recommend this for all new writers who are looking to become more well known(who isn't?!).