Where To Promote Your Books, eBooks and Articles For FREE
| Category: E-books | Date: 2001-08-23 |
For writers the Internet provides a huge opportunity. Now for the first time you can get your books, eBooks and articles in front of millions of people across the world.
This opportunity also poses a huge challenge. How to get your work in front of the right people at the right time. There are millions of websites, thousands of newsgroups and mailing lists, bulletin boards and hundreds of classified ads sites all of which are potential places you can get exposure.
Everyday websites appear on the world wide web purporting to be able to help you sell more books and articles than anyone else. They all offer different payment terms, make promises that sound fantastic, but may not turn out to be as good as they first appear.
As a writer you may be bewildered by the vastness of the Internet. You may believe that the Internet is a good thing in that it can help you sell more if only you knew how to use it effectively.
If you do not know where to start and would like to know the places successful writers are using to sell their work then read on.
RESOURCES TO START WITH
To begin your book or article sales campaign you need to determine HOW you are going to reach your audience.
Will you be sending your potential purchasers to your own website where your work is offered for sale?
Will you sell your work from other websites and not have your own site?
Will you only sell via email?
My advice to you would be to do all three. If you are starting out afresh then do not try to do all of them at the same time. You will get bogged down in the technical aspects which will detract from your writing time (you will need to continue writing!)
The best approach is to start by getting your books listed on the best websites that will sell them effectively.
The obvious sites to start with are these:
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com (US)
http://www.amazon.co.uk (UK)
http://www.amazon.de (Germany)
This is the number one site on the Internet that people turn to to buy books. Amazon may be losing money but they are selling a lot of books.
Visit
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/partners/publishers/
publishers.html for details on how to submit your books.
Barnes and Noble
http://www.barnesandnoble.com
Second cousin to Amazon but still a high traffic site. They will even help you to publish your book. Go to
http://publishyourbook.iuniverse.com/ for more details.
Fatbrain
http://www.fatbrain.com
This is a good site if you write tehnical books or articles. They no longer accept digitally published books so make sure your book is available in a printed version.
For more details go to
http://www1.fatbrain.com/helpdesk/get_listed.asp?vm=c
BOOK REVIEWS NEXT
Another way of getting your books noticed is to get a book review published. Here are some sites that allow you to put your own reviews on their site, or who will review your book for you.
Writers Write
http://www.writerswrite.com
Writers Write publishes a much respected magazine that includes book reviews. You need to send them a review copy of your book by post. Details can be found at
http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/guide.htm
BookWire
http://www.bookwire.com
BookWire also publish reviews. Again you will need to send a review copy to them. Further details at
http://www.bookwire.com/bbr/bbr_reviewpolicy.html
Web-Net Book Reviews
http://web-net.org/bookrev/
You can add your own reviews to this website. Add yours by going to http://web-net.org/bookrev/addbook.html.
NEXT, PRODUCE AN eBOOK AND GET IT LISTED AND REVIEWED
eBooks are becoming more and more popular. I would suggest that you create an eBook that covers the subject of your printed book but only covers one aspect of it. Within the eBook refer to your printed book and provide details on how to order it. This might be a simple link to one of the sites listed above where your book can be bought.
If you are an article writer, group some of your articles together and put them into an eBook. Again refer your readers to a place where more of your articles can be bought or downloaded.
Here are some places where you can get your eBook listed
and/or reviewed:
BookLocker
http://www.booklocker.com
A highly respected site to sell your eBooks from.
Ebook Connections
http://www.ebookconnections.com
Another good site. Submit your eBook review here
http://www.ebookconnections.com/reviews/r_home.htm
Ebooks Nbytes
http://www.ebooksnbytes.com/
This site will list your eBook and you can also get it reviewed. Visit http://www.ebooksnbytes.com/reviews/ .
SUMMARY
Hopefully this article has shown you where to begin your book or article sales campaign. Naturally I do not have the space here to cover absolutely every aspect of successful selling on the Internet. But at least you can now get started.
If you find the resources above useful, you may be interested to know that I will soon be launching a website dedicated to book promotion and sales. This site will:
o Show you how to make more money from your books
o Tell you how to promote your books for FREE
o Help you sell more books online than 90% of your friends sell offline
o Provide you with brand new resources every week where you can promote your books
o Give you step-by-step instructions on exactly how to use those places to effectively sell more books
o Help you make more money with less effort
o Tell you which promotion techniques work, and more importantly, which don’t so you don’t waste time
o Avoid you having to constantly search for more places to market your books so that you have more time to do what you do best - write
o Give you step-by-step marketing instructions so you can sell your books without having to become a marketing expert.
If you want to know as soon as this website is launched (which will be in the next few months), please send a blank email to bpsfc@getpub.com and I will send you an email notification as soon as it goes online.
Thanks for reading this article and good luck with your online selling.
About the Author
Greg Spence is the Author of, "How to Search the Internet and Find the Information You Need....Ten Times Faster" http://www.search-help.net Want to publish your books and articles online? We can help you for FREE!
:To contact see details below.
gspence@getpub.com
http://www.getpub.com
This opportunity also poses a huge challenge. How to get your work in front of the right people at the right time. There are millions of websites, thousands of newsgroups and mailing lists, bulletin boards and hundreds of classified ads sites all of which are potential places you can get exposure.
Everyday websites appear on the world wide web purporting to be able to help you sell more books and articles than anyone else. They all offer different payment terms, make promises that sound fantastic, but may not turn out to be as good as they first appear.
As a writer you may be bewildered by the vastness of the Internet. You may believe that the Internet is a good thing in that it can help you sell more if only you knew how to use it effectively.
If you do not know where to start and would like to know the places successful writers are using to sell their work then read on.
RESOURCES TO START WITH
To begin your book or article sales campaign you need to determine HOW you are going to reach your audience.
Will you be sending your potential purchasers to your own website where your work is offered for sale?
Will you sell your work from other websites and not have your own site?
Will you only sell via email?
My advice to you would be to do all three. If you are starting out afresh then do not try to do all of them at the same time. You will get bogged down in the technical aspects which will detract from your writing time (you will need to continue writing!)
The best approach is to start by getting your books listed on the best websites that will sell them effectively.
The obvious sites to start with are these:
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com (US)
http://www.amazon.co.uk (UK)
http://www.amazon.de (Germany)
This is the number one site on the Internet that people turn to to buy books. Amazon may be losing money but they are selling a lot of books.
Visit
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/partners/publishers/
publishers.html for details on how to submit your books.
Barnes and Noble
http://www.barnesandnoble.com
Second cousin to Amazon but still a high traffic site. They will even help you to publish your book. Go to
http://publishyourbook.iuniverse.com/ for more details.
Fatbrain
http://www.fatbrain.com
This is a good site if you write tehnical books or articles. They no longer accept digitally published books so make sure your book is available in a printed version.
For more details go to
http://www1.fatbrain.com/helpdesk/get_listed.asp?vm=c
BOOK REVIEWS NEXT
Another way of getting your books noticed is to get a book review published. Here are some sites that allow you to put your own reviews on their site, or who will review your book for you.
Writers Write
http://www.writerswrite.com
Writers Write publishes a much respected magazine that includes book reviews. You need to send them a review copy of your book by post. Details can be found at
http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/guide.htm
BookWire
http://www.bookwire.com
BookWire also publish reviews. Again you will need to send a review copy to them. Further details at
http://www.bookwire.com/bbr/bbr_reviewpolicy.html
Web-Net Book Reviews
http://web-net.org/bookrev/
You can add your own reviews to this website. Add yours by going to http://web-net.org/bookrev/addbook.html.
NEXT, PRODUCE AN eBOOK AND GET IT LISTED AND REVIEWED
eBooks are becoming more and more popular. I would suggest that you create an eBook that covers the subject of your printed book but only covers one aspect of it. Within the eBook refer to your printed book and provide details on how to order it. This might be a simple link to one of the sites listed above where your book can be bought.
If you are an article writer, group some of your articles together and put them into an eBook. Again refer your readers to a place where more of your articles can be bought or downloaded.
Here are some places where you can get your eBook listed
and/or reviewed:
BookLocker
http://www.booklocker.com
A highly respected site to sell your eBooks from.
Ebook Connections
http://www.ebookconnections.com
Another good site. Submit your eBook review here
http://www.ebookconnections.com/reviews/r_home.htm
Ebooks Nbytes
http://www.ebooksnbytes.com/
This site will list your eBook and you can also get it reviewed. Visit http://www.ebooksnbytes.com/reviews/ .
SUMMARY
Hopefully this article has shown you where to begin your book or article sales campaign. Naturally I do not have the space here to cover absolutely every aspect of successful selling on the Internet. But at least you can now get started.
If you find the resources above useful, you may be interested to know that I will soon be launching a website dedicated to book promotion and sales. This site will:
o Show you how to make more money from your books
o Tell you how to promote your books for FREE
o Help you sell more books online than 90% of your friends sell offline
o Provide you with brand new resources every week where you can promote your books
o Give you step-by-step instructions on exactly how to use those places to effectively sell more books
o Help you make more money with less effort
o Tell you which promotion techniques work, and more importantly, which don’t so you don’t waste time
o Avoid you having to constantly search for more places to market your books so that you have more time to do what you do best - write
o Give you step-by-step marketing instructions so you can sell your books without having to become a marketing expert.
If you want to know as soon as this website is launched (which will be in the next few months), please send a blank email to bpsfc@getpub.com and I will send you an email notification as soon as it goes online.
Thanks for reading this article and good luck with your online selling.
About the Author
Greg Spence is the Author of, "How to Search the Internet and Find the Information You Need....Ten Times Faster" http://www.search-help.net Want to publish your books and articles online? We can help you for FREE!
:To contact see details below.
gspence@getpub.com
http://www.getpub.com
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