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Crazy Priced USED books on Amazon – by Derek Haines

Always informative and interesting. Great posts with relevance for all Authors. https://justpublishingadvice.com/why-are-they-selling-used-books-on-amazon-at-crazy-prices/     Why Are They Selling Used Books On Amazon At Crazy Prices? Have you checked your Mass Market book price on Amazon? If you haven’t, perhaps you should, because you might be in for a surprise. There are some crazy book prices…
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What you need to do to sell your books on Amazon – by Derek Haines

Just Publishing Advice is a great website written by Derek Haines.  Generally I reblog the good stuff…like this. This time I have to share instead.  Enjoy the read and You’ll find the rest on their website with many more interesting articles. https://justpublishingadvice.com/what-you-need-to-do-to-sell-your-books-on-amazon/ You can’t sell books. You can only bring your books to the attention…
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Amazon Review Privilege by Guest Blogger, May Dawney

Introducing May Dawney you recently put this post up in a group on Facebook. It is a good read and it certainly makes you think.  Please remember nobody is picking on anyone. It is an observation made which affects those writers and businesses – like me, who live outside the USA. Thank you, May Dawney,…
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Uploading your Self-Published eBook to Lulu

Welcome to the world of LULU Uploading.  As promised here is the second installment about UPLOADING…This time it’s for eBOOKS. WE start with picking what we wish to publish, of course this time it is the ebook we wish to do. So follow the images and I’ll explain what is what as you scroll through…
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Build Book Buzz – Reblogged How to Promote your Audiobook

https://buildbookbuzz.com/how-to-promote-your-audiobook/ How to promote your audiobook Posted on April 4, 2018 by Sandra Beckwith •13 Comments Today’s article is an epic, 2,000-word conversation with Karen Commins, a professional audiobook narrator and Audible Approved Producer in Atlanta who has given voice to more than 50 audiobooks, including ROAD TO TARA: THE LIFE OF MARGARET MITCHELL by Anne Edwards. Karen has completed extensive specialized training in…
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Book Reviews with Amazon…Yeah Right!

Why oh why is Amazon making it even harder to put up reviews for authors.  First they curtail your reviews because you supposedly know the author or you publish the author or help them publish.  Now Amazon is telling you to spend over $50 to actually put a review in place. That would be a…
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Maximize your Book Sales with Amazon

Published on A Marketing Expert showing you all you need to know to maximize your book sales.  They have some great articles. Please check them out when you can. https://www.amarketingexpert.com/amazon-categories-to-maximize-book-sales-a-little-known-secret/ Amazon Categories to Maximize Book Sales + A Little-Known Secret! Everyone wants more exposure on Amazon. And understandably. Exposure drives book sales. But, as we seek more…
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Uploading your Self-Published Paperback to Lulu

LULU has been publishing books since 2002 with over 2 million titles published. Lulu has developed into an outstanding company with many advantages over both Createspace and Kindle which in recent years caused to many hassles for me personally to want to use them any longer. One of my favourite parts of Lulu is the…
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Createspace – Closing their Professional Services. Is this another step to closing their business?

WE all know I don’t like Createspace anymore due to their Customer Service debacle and how they treat their customers. They are so not with it. I’m glad to get out now rather than when they close their business down for good…To me this is what it looks like and I’ll tell you why. I…
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KDP & Permafree

When you wish to have an ebook FREE forever on Amazon you have to ask and show proof that your ebook is already FREE with other distributers.  Well if you are publishing through KDP then use the APPLE links (worldwide) when you contact them.  Of course they will never guarentee they will make it FREE…after…
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