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How to Give Away Copies of Your Kindle Ebook on Amazon, and Why it’s a Good Idea

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Amazon has a handy featured called “Give as a Gift” which you can use to send someone a Kindle book via email. For authors, this can be quite handy for book promotion purposes. If you can drive more sales to your Kindle edition by getting others to give it as a gift, the rank for

How to Host Your Own Ebook Giveaway (Without Amazon KDP)

Own Your Niche: Internet marketing and social media book by Stephanie Chandler

Last week I decided to host a free ebook promotion where I gave away copies of my latest book, Own Your Niche, free of charge for three days. Over 72 hours, I received over 1,000 registrations from users who downloaded the book, which far exceeded my expectations. (My goal was to give away 400 copies

Why I’m Giving Away Hundreds of Ebooks: Own Your Niche

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This past weekend, my latest book–Own Your Niche–was honored as Best Business Book of the Year via the Global Ebook Awards–hooray! It all started when I began promoting the Global Ebook Awards via social media and my newsletter lists as a resource for authors, then it occurred to me that I should enter my new

How to Easily Add a PDF Document on to Your Amazon Kindle

How to Easily Load a PDF onto Your Amazon Kindle

Want to read a PDF document on your Kindle? It’s easy! Here’s how: Load a PDF onto Kindle: Option 1: Install the Send to Kindle app on Your Computer. This free app enables you to easily right-click on any document and have it automatically sent to your Kindle. PC users can set up the Send

How to Link Your Kindle Book and Print Book Together on Amazon

How to link together your kindle and print book

It’s been awhile since I released a new book and this week I realized that my Kindle and paperback editions were not linked together on Amazon. This could be an issue if a buyer is looking for one or the other and doesn’t realize they are both available! Here’s how to solve the issue and

The Ebook Market Explosion and Why Print Books Aren’t Dead

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USA Today just ran an interesting article on the surge of ebook purchases after the holiday season. Based on USA Today’s book best seller’s list, immediately after the holidays 42 of the 50 top selling books were selling more ebooks than their printed counterparts. It seems that readers with their shiny new Kindle Fires and

Earn More Money with a Book: 10 Business Model Options for Nonfiction Authors

Business model options for nonfiction authors

A book is a fantastic credibility-builder and can create a wide variety of opportunities for authors. While the book itself can generate some revenues, the real profits come from the other revenue-generating activities that you can create around the book. Here are some ideas to uncover the real profits behind your hard work. 1. Professional

New Revenue Outweighs the Cost of Producing a Book The Real Dollars and Cents of Publishing

Most experts know that having a well-written, professionally published book on their topic will gain them instant credibility. Having a book has numerous advantages. Consider these facts: A book is often a great prospecting tool for business professionals. A book can help set you or your company apart as the market leader. A book gives

Strategies for Promoting Ebooks

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Earlier this week, I read an interesting blog post by author Dean Wesley Smith on how he promoted his ebook with book cards. He had rack cards (similar to large postcards) printed up with his book cover on one side and a link to download it on the other side, and then went around handing

Why You Should Give Away Free Copies of Your Ebook

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Chris Anderson, author of several books including The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More, launched an interesting campaign to promote the release of his new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price. He made the book available for free in e-book format and in audio on Audible.com (and