Five Book Back Cover Mistakes and How to Solve Them

Did you know that your back cover information is, after the cover, the best way to sell more books? If they like your cover, they will spend ten-thirty seconds on your back cover—a great opportunity to convince them that your book is necessary for their pleasure or success. Does your back cover pass the test?

Distribute Your Self-Published Book Online 8 Ways - Part 2

If you are discouraged because traditional methods of book or product distribution haven't brought you the profits you wanted, think Internet distribution. This Online promotion method is good for the long haul and costs you little time or money. With Online distribution the self-published author or Web business site gets to keep all the money.

Publishing Your Book-What Way is Best For You? - Part 2

You the author need to decide what publishing path is best for you. It may be a print book with print on demand printing, an eBook with no printing or promotion costs, or it may be a traditionally publilshed book using an agent. Make sure it's a profitable choice.

Quiz: Will Online Book Marketing Help Sales?

Most authors sigh a sigh of relief when they finish their book. Then comes the awesome task of marketing the masterpiece. Use these 10 questions as a guide to know what book you'll want to investigate and invest in to widen your selling success.

Ten Ways to Make Your Book Outsell Another

Wouldn't you rather write a book that sells well than be stuck with unsold inventory? When you plan ahead with the tips below, you will sell thousands rather than hundreds of your unique and important information or inspirational products.

Make Big Profits from Small Booklets

Want to get published fast? Write a booklet. Within days you can be a published author. Booklets can create a fast and easy income stream for writers, speakers, consultants and others.

Book Events - Make Yours Successful

A book event (a book signing) is a popular way for authors to create awareness for their work. Most large publishing houses require authors to participate in a 10-city book tour, at the minimum. For self-published authors, it's a good idea to arrange as many events as your time and budget allows. But, no matter who's making the arrangements, there are five key ingredients to making the event a success:

The Perfect Book and Where to Find It!

If I was asked to describe the perfect book, one that’s in high demand, moves off the shelves quickly, costs little or nothing to produce, involves the least amount of work possible, and offers...

Poetry Chapbooks: Ten Tips for Promotion

Poetry chapbooks are small books of poetry. They are great tools to help poets become established in the community, but promoting them can be somewhat difficult without a few leads.

19 Ways to Secure Non-Returnable Book Sales and Sell More Books

Don't rely on bookstore sales alone to maximize your book selling opportunities. If you want to sell hundreds of thousands of copies, you must explore non-traditional markets as well.

Book Marketing 101

For beginning authors, book promotion is the key to success. Whether an author self-publishes or is published by a major house, most often that author needs to market her book herself if she wants there to be any chance at all of it being successful. What is a new author to do? Into this void comes a wonderful book....

Authors Should Be Optimistic

The fact is that if you have a good book and there's a market for it, there's no need to let others dissuade you from trying to find an agent or traditional publisher, if that's the way you want to go. There are also many reasons to self-publish (particularly if you have a niche market). Just make sure the advice you're receiving is unbiased.

Your Book Marketing Plan - Winning Strategies and Tips

Do you want to know how to create a bestselling book? Learn how to sell hundreds of thousands of copies by implementing innovative, non-traditional book marketing strategies.

Plain Speaking - 4 Secrets For Getting Your Book Purchased

What's the point of writing a brilliant book if you don't entice people to even open it? Make sre your cover copy is compelling!

Book Marketing 101 - Setting up Author Events and Book Signings -- Get the Most from Book Publicity

Author Events are the primary vehicle for the self-published author to get out and meet the public, and they can be your ticket to both sales and increased publicity - all thanks to your local retail outlet. This article will be your quickstart guide to developing and setting up winning Author Events and Book Signings.