Do you know what makes the difference between selling 50 copies of your new Kindle book and 5,000 copies?
Well it’s promotion….
There’s absolutely no point in spending days/weeks/months writing a book, throwing it up on kindle and expecting the hordes to come desperate to buy, (because they won’t). And as someone who has written a number of kindle books I should know because I learned this lesson the hard way…
So I’ve put together a number of places and ways to promote your new Kindle book that won’t cost you an arm and a leg, I hope you find them useful.
Websites that will announce your book to the world: Some of these websites have a tremendous amount of visitors and they can indeed send a great many eyeballs to your latest Kindle book.
One caveat: Always follow their submission instructions – submissions that don’t follow the rules get deleted.
HINT: These are also great websites for finding free Kindle books for your own reading pleasure.
http://bargainebookhunter.com
http://www.pixelofink.com
http://www.goodreads.com
http://thefrugalereader.com
http://www.ereaderiq.com
http://www.freebooksy.com
http://www.indiebookslist.com
http://ereadernewstoday.com
http://kindlenationdaily.com
http://www.worldliterarycafe.com
http://www.thekindledailydeal.com
Another really great/cool idea..
Amazon offers KDP Select Free Promo Days. You can use this to basically give away your Kindle book (if you want to) for $0.00. The websites above are even more likely to promote your Kindle book during the time when it’s free, so it’s definitely something to consider – especially if your real goal is list building.
Rather than go into a lengthy explanation of Amazon’s KDP Select Free Promo Days, you can check out the following articles:
Amazon’s own page: https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A6KILDRNSCOBA#sthash.cJqtKXvX.dpuf
http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2012/02/20/kindle-advertising-kdp-select/
http://www.publetariat.com/sell/simple-steps-successful-kdp-select-free-promotion
http://digitalbooktoday.com/maximize-your-kdp-select-free-days/
http://www.novelpublicity.com/2012/03/kdp-select-free-day-promo-round-2-is-it-worth-a-second-go-around/
http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/2251448-live-post-kdp-select-free-promo-days-the-magic-beans-of-marketing
http://www.christopherhopper.com/2012/04/experimenting-with-kdp-selects-free-promo-days/
http://jdcurrie.blogspot.com/p/thoughts-on-kdp-free-days.html
More websites that can be helpful in your Kindle book writing and promotions:
http://www.thewriterssite.com/direct_pages/marketing.html
http://www.kindleboards.com/
http://www.authormarketingclub.com/
http://www.writing-world.com/
http://weread.com/
Highly rated books on book promotion:
http://www.amazon.com/Sell-More-Books-Publishing-Revolutions/dp/0981875637/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1334175983&sr=8-9
http://www.amazon.com/Marketing-Authors-Publicity-through-Networking/dp/0977240614/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1334175983&sr=8-8
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Marketing-Made-Easy-Strategies/dp/096519759X/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1334175983&sr=8-6
http://www.amazon.com/Publicize-Your-Book-Updated-Attention/dp/0399534318/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1334175983&sr=8-3
http://www.amazon.com/The-Well-Fed-Self-Publisher-Full-Time-Living/dp/0967059860/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1334175983&sr=8-2
http://www.amazon.com/1001-Ways-Market-Your-Books/dp/091241149X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334175983&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Marketing-Writers-Low-Cost-Guerilla/dp/1600376606/ref=sr_1_19?ie=UTF8&qid=1334176188&sr=8-19
How to work with a co-author without killing each other:
Book directories: Note, some of these are free and others aren’t, but all have a good reputation at the time of writing. And since more directories are being added all the time, I recommend also doing a Google search.
http://www.shelfari.com
http://www.free-ebooks.net
http://bookbuzzr.com
http://www.ebookfreeway.com
http://www.ebookjungle.com
http://www.ebookdirectory.com
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com
http://www.published.com
http://receivedtext.org
http://www.e-book-zone.com/ebookstore.htm
http://www.jogena.com
http://www.wisdomebooks.com/ebook-directories.html
That lot should keep you busy for a while, let me know if you can think of any more and I’ll add them to the list
Till next time
