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Guest Post: Six Proven Ways To Sell Digital Products Like Ebooks Faster

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By Tara Dwyer Selling products online can be a great way to earn extra cash. There are many proven ways to sell digital products fast in today's world—quality matters. However, how you promote your products is the critical piece to a successful business. Soon, you'll reap the benefits of receiving passive income from home. There are several ways to sell, from building … [Read more...] about Guest Post: Six Proven Ways To Sell Digital Products Like Ebooks Faster

Guest Post: Effective Ways to Market Your Ebook to Boost your Brand

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By Irfan Ak Ebooks can do wonders for your brand! Ebooks help you garner qualified leads, build your email list, drive traffic to your website, help you engage with your audience, provide value to your customers, and even establish yourself as the ultimate voice of authority in your niche. However, the problem isn’t crafting compelling content that solves the pain-points … [Read more...] about Guest Post: Effective Ways to Market Your Ebook to Boost your Brand

Guest Post: Ebook Marketing: Tried and Tested Strategies That You Can Follow

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By Sudhir Bhushan More and more businesses are looking for new marketing avenues to generate qualified leads, which are essential to boosts conversion. With the fierce competition online, there is no dearth of options for customers. This makes it harder for businesses to garner leads that convert. However, here, the one technique that has really proven quite lucrative for … [Read more...] about Guest Post: Ebook Marketing: Tried and Tested Strategies That You Can Follow

Gumroad: An Alternate Distributor for Ebooks (And Other Products)

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We all know about the main distribution channels for indie authors: Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Google. But there are alternative, and potentially lucrative ways, to sell your work. One such alternative is Gumroad, which allows writers, artists, and others to sell their work. It doesn't have to be limited to ebooks either. If you're a non-fiction author, you … [Read more...] about Gumroad: An Alternate Distributor for Ebooks (And Other Products)

Guest Post: Online Listings Tips to Promote and Increase Book Sales

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By Kiana Mason You’ve spent hours writing, editing, and perfecting your book. Now it’s ready to be delivered to the hands of readers everywhere. Whether you’re marketing your book on your website, on Amazon, or through an email blast, start with a listing description that lets people know exactly who you are and what your book is about and makes them want to read it. But … [Read more...] about Guest Post: Online Listings Tips to Promote and Increase Book Sales

Indie Authors: An Overview of Book Distribution Options

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When it comes to selling books, most people think of Amazon and Kindle. Although Amazon may be the biggest ebook distributo r, it's not the only option for indie authors. Ebook Retailers Ebay. An unconventional way to sell ebooks. Feedbooks. An ebook retailer designed for mobile reading. Google Play Books. Though the platform is currently not allowing new people … [Read more...] about Indie Authors: An Overview of Book Distribution Options

Finding Books and Other Content To Read

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Reading is an interactive and magical experience. Here are some sources to find books and other things to read: Book Boon: Download free ebooks and textbooks. Free Ebook Foundation / Unglue.it: Free ebooks. Gluejar: "In the business of advancing internet infrastructure for libraries, publishers, researchers, and readers of all types." Book Mooch: Give away … [Read more...] about Finding Books and Other Content To Read

A List of 194 Tools and Resources: Apps, Trends, Marketing Tips, and More

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It's about that time again for another roundup post. This time I've got a bunch of tools and resources that cover a wide range of topics, from freelancing to marketing to reading and more. Book Creation Tools/Help Book Creator Comic Book Paper Omnibook Vellum Vivliostyle (and why it's important) "Automated Cleanup for Word Manuscripts" Beyond XML … [Read more...] about A List of 194 Tools and Resources: Apps, Trends, Marketing Tips, and More

Indie Authors: Selling Books

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After doing all the hard work of writing, editing, and designing your book, it's nice to be able to sell it. There are a number of creative ways to sell an ebook these days. Book Promotion Hub recommends selling via online book clubs, which includes Goodreads, Amazon Book Club, BookTalk.org, and Book Mooch. You can also collaborate with people, or as Michelle from Random … [Read more...] about Indie Authors: Selling Books

For the Readers: A List of Sites, Tools, and Examples of Beautiful Works

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More and more platforms are springing up to help both indie authors and readers looking for their next great read. One new platform that does just that is The Books Machine, which allows authors to gift their books to hundreds of thousands of readers, according to the website. Readers have 30 days to read the book and write an honest review. Reader membership is free, and … [Read more...] about For the Readers: A List of Sites, Tools, and Examples of Beautiful Works

A Roundup of History Lessons: Book Blurbs, Fairy Tales, Ebooks, and More

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It's always fun to think about how things came to be. A couple weeks ago, I shared a bunch of links that looks at the present and predicts future trends. I think that understanding the past also helps us to better understand the present and look towards the future. With that in mind, there have been some interesting stories going around the interwebs lately that talk about … [Read more...] about A Roundup of History Lessons: Book Blurbs, Fairy Tales, Ebooks, and More

By the Numbers: 189+ Tips and Tricks on How to Write, Edit, Market, and Sell Your Books

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So many wonderful authors, publishers, and people just interested in the book industry have written numerous guides, case studies, and resources to help others interested in writing and publishing. Sometimes the best way to share resources is via lists, like my post 7 Strategies and 110 Tools to Help Indie Authors Find Readers and Reviewers. With that in mind, here are links … [Read more...] about By the Numbers: 189+ Tips and Tricks on How to Write, Edit, Market, and Sell Your Books

Indie Authors: Expanding Your Content

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Writing and publishing a book is a great accomplishment, but it doesn't have to end there. Books can be spliced, expanded, and distributed in new and multiple ways online. Gordon Burgett wrote about how to multiple a book's sales by turning it into six books. It works easily with non-fiction books, where you can separate the book by topic and publish mini versions (of just … [Read more...] about Indie Authors: Expanding Your Content