Reviews of The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success

This is a great place to start for anyone who wants to be successful with eBook publishing. There are so many things you have to do to set up your online presence in the social networks. Some of this is high tech and probably warrants hiring someone with special skills in web design and marketing.

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This is exactly the book I am looking for. Very happy to find it, and especially because it is written by the king of self publishing Mark Coker. Thank you Mark for sharing your depth and breadth of experience with us. I look forward to using these valuable techniques to market my ebook when I publish it later this year.

Well written and full of solid advice from cover to cover. I believe that doing most or all of the things in this book increase your chances of success with ebook publishing, however it takes great writing and lots of luck to sell a lot of books.

I'm new to Smashwords. I've had books out for a while (print and e), and I can honestly say there are TONS of golden nuggets in this guide even for those not using Smashwords. Help with platform building, catching the reader's attention, how readers find your book and more are all terrific teachings inside this book.

Follow your B.L.I.S.S.
Ronda Del Boccio

If you are an indie author, this book explains everything you need to do, how to do it and why to do it -- when it comes to laying the foundation for your brand and your marketing plan. There are many other things you need to do, but this is a great place to start.

I've actually done most of this in an attempt to sell and give away free eBooks under my pen name. I can report that some of these tactics are more useful than others. I don't think blogging or asking your friends and relatives really contributes to success. The most helpful thing I've found is to give away free short stories and novels, and if people like them they will come back and buy your other books. The golden rule is your writing has to be good.

I can do everything in this handy book myself, unlike eBook formatting which I have to hire an expert to do. I'm hoping that following the step by step instructions here will help me sell some books. Thanks to the author for sharing all this secret knowledge.

I was sitting here trying to think what I'd write for a review. I was trying to think of something witty and clever to say. But I couldn't come up with anything . . . so I read the review below this one by someone names TexMex, and I have to agree. I think the review below mine by TexMex really nailed it. I'd like ad a huge thank you to Mr. Coker for everything he's doing and to all the people ate Smashwords. Indie publishing is changing the literary world and Smashwords is totally making it happen.

I read this entire book and I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand it is a list of a whole lot of things for the new indie author to do. Creating accounts, setting up a website, telling friends, tagging metadata, blogging, joining groups, etc. I went off and did most of these activities and achieved a great sense of satisfaction. On the other hand, all the while I had a vague feeling that none of this will actually lead to selling books. Sure my mom and my cousin will grab my book, maybe a few people I meet online, etc. But will any of this add up to a best seller? Sorry to sound jaded but a lot of this reads like it's from a 'golden age' of indie publishing, maybe 5 years ago when the space was new and the possibilities were endless. There will be some great best sellers from the indie author space, but will an indie published book go viral because the author did all the tasks in this book? I'm not sure. I'm not confident that this book is a recipe for success. I think an author needs to write a great book first of all. After that, there are a lot of reasons why it might or might not become a best seller. I think fate and chance and dumb luck and magic are involved. Sure, do all the stuff in this book but it's entirely possible that taking advice from a gypsy psychic might help you even more . . . that and write a great story.

I just read this and enjoyed it. I've been thinking about publishing some poems and a collection of stories. This book has many good ideas for building your network, marketing books. Lot's of high-tech and creative ideas I never would have thought of.