"If you want to sell 128 million books like we have, read and use this book." - Mark Victor Hanson & Jack Canfield, authors of the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series
The 6th edition of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books helps you sell more books! Buy several copies to give to your good friends. - John Kremer, author
For more information about 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, click here: 1001ways.htm
Book Marketing Bestsellers Blog
Best of the Blog: Book Author Success Stories
Best of the Blog: Book Design Ideas: Book Covers, Book Titles, Etc.
Best of the Blog: Book Marketing Articles from Friends
Literary, Subsidiary, & Foreign Rights Agents - This Word report includes more than 1,375 literary agents, including 375 agents that sell foreign rights and another 50+ that handle subsidiary rights sales. This report also includes a sample foreign rights contract. Only $30. To order, click here.
Book Promotion Ideas: Book Marketing Bestsellers Blog
Tips for Book Authors
Advice to Would-Be Book Authors by John Kremer
The Amazon Kindle Swindle - Authors: People Are Stealing Your Work!
Approaching Newspaper Book Reviewers
Be a Ball Bearing, Not a Beach Ball - Michael Brooke, editor of Concrete Wave
Blog Tours: An Opportunity Not a Loss
Book Marketing by Telling Stories
Book Promotion: What Is the Best Way to Market a Book?
A Brilliant Novel Marketing Idea - W. Somerset Maugham, author of Of Human Bondage
Chelsea Green Launches Library Wish List Gift Registry - Chelsea Green and libraries
Create Better Online Testimonials
Does It Pay to Nag? - from Chicago Sun-Times
Don't Wait to Be Perfect - quote from Guy Kawasaki
An Example of a Great End-of-the-Year 2010 Tie-In News Release
First Time Novelists: How to Get Attention - Media Bistro
50 Ways to Blog as a Novelist: Tips for Writers of Fiction
Fun Promotions for You and Your Book
Great TV Commercial: Are You Proud of Your Work?
How to Get Retweeted on Twitter
I Believe - Things That Go Viral
iPhone Apps: Big Deal - Are You In? - Sourcebooks iPhone apps
Is This Short Enough? - Book Blurbs and Elevator Speeches - Beth Green, author of Memoirs of the New Age
Just a Thought: Marketing Is All About You
Less Money, More Story - Seth Godin
Literary Agents Will Be Around for a Long, Long Time
Making Friends: The Essence of Marketing by John Kremer
Media Love People Stories - Entertainment Tonight TV show
Neat Story: Simple Website Monetization Idea - I wear your shirt
Novels Via Cellphones - Mika, author of Love Sky
Paulo Coelho's Statutes for Life - Neat use of page-flipping tech
The Power of Telling Stories - psychologist Paul Slovic
Promote Your Book: Do It Every Day
Promoting Your Book with a Great News Release Lead
Promoting Your Books: Just Do It
Scripts Make a Difference - Words make a difference.
The Secret to Approaching Top People
Teen Vampires Blog about Their Lives - Heather Brewer, author of Eighth Grade Bites and Adele Griffin, author of Vampire Island
The 30-Day Twitter Challenge by John Kremer
The Value of PR Services and Literary Agents for Business Books - RainToday.com
Virtual Blog Tours: How to Do One
Where Will You Be in 10 Years?
Get distribution for your books!
Book Marketing 105: Choosing a Book Distribution System - This vital mini-guide includes criteria for deciding how you will distribute your books. Also includes complete information on 30 distributors, 4 library distributors, 89 book publishers who also distribute for other publishers, 3 sales representatives to the chains, 27 bookstore wholesalers, 34 library wholesalers, and 23 Spanish-language wholesalers. Plus a sample book distribution contract. Ebook download, $30.00.
Top 700 Independent Bookstores - This database features 790 stores with address, book buyer, owner, event coordinator, phone, fax, email, website, and more! Cost: $40.00. This data file features an updated list of the largest indie bookstores that work with authors and buy books from indie publishers. The report comes as a data file download (your choice of Microsoft Access, Excel, comma-delimited ascii, tab-delimited ascii, d-Base, or rich text format). The data files do require that you know how to use a database or word-processing program.
