It’s been a while since I’ve posted about Amazon, so thought I’d share some links I’ve been collecting. It covers a wide range of topics, but hey, that’s Amazon!
Amazon Tools and Tutorials
- ACX University
- Kindle Create
- Amazon Sales Estimator Tool on Jungle Scout
- Amazon Sales Rank Calculator on Kindlepreneur
- “Tutorial: Enabling X-Ray for Your eBooks on Amazon” on Indies Unlimited
- “Amazon launches a Polly WordPress plugin that turns blog posts into audio, including podcasts” on TechCrunch
- Amazon Influencer Program
- Build an Alexa skill
Book Marketing and Advertising with Amazon
- “Amazon Book Marketing Tips with Dave Chesson” on Social Media Just for Writers
- “Book Advertising” on Kindlepreneur
- Amazon Advertising Case Study on Amazon
- “Using Amazon Ads to Sell a YA Novel: A Detailed Analysis” on Jane Friedman
- “Three Reasons Your Book Might Not Be Selling” on Indies Unlimited
- “Words Gone Wild: KDP Keywords Revisited” on The Book Designer
- “Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – February 2018” on The Book Designer
- “Use Amazon’s Alexa To Market Your Business” on Nonfiction Authors Association
- “Tips for Building Keyword Lists for Amazon Advertising” on David Mcgowan
- “Buying and Gifting eBooks for Others” on KDP
Amazon Policies and Indie Authors
- “Amazon’s Hall of Spinning Knives” on David Gaughran
- “Are you violating the Amazon Associates program policies?” on Amy Lynn Andrews
- “The Dos and Don’ts of Amazon Associates” on Designer Trapped
Interesting Updates
- “Amazon Publishing Launches New Imprint” on Publisher’s Weekly
- “‘Lord of the Rings’: Amazon, Warner Bros. in Talks for Series Adaptation ” on Variety
- “The Kindle Changed the Book Business. Can It Change Books?” on Wired
- “Amazon is Merging Createspace Into KDP Print” on The Digital Reader
- “CreateSpace and KDP to become one service” on KDP
- Prime Book Box
- “Amazon has laid out exactly how to game its self-publishing platform” on Quartz
- “Amazon’s Antitrust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea” on New York Times
- “Amazon rolls out new Alexa kids features” on KidScreen