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  Wouldn’t it be great to look at an Amazon sales ranking for any book and know how many it sold? You’d be able to forecast selling your book on Amazon, help select the categories your book should be in, and know how much your competitors are making.   Selling Ebooks On … [Read more...] about Understanding Amazon’s Secret: Sales Rankings

You will face a dilemma when you get to Kindle's Before You Go feature: Every page you add after the end of your book decreases the chances that the reader will rate or share your book simply because they might stop reading before they get to the Before You Go page.   This is not an issue … [Read more...] about How To Merchandise Your Other Work With Kindle’s Before You Go Feature

In this final blog post in this series we’ll be taking a look back and reviewing strategies for coping with and overcoming literary rejections.   In 25 Women On Overcoming Rejection Janet Fitch states, “When I sold my first book, a young-adult novel called Kicks, I had a party and I put … [Read more...] about Literary Rejections Are Badges Of Honor

It’s common to get “pre-buyer’s remorse,” that awful feeling you’re close to making the wrong decision. It often stems from a suspicion of feeling like the seller has overly influenced you. After all, if the author’s so good, why doesn’t he or she have a publisher backing them up? Mostly, it’s … [Read more...] about Create An Effective Authors Page On Amazon’s Author Central

A few years ago, Yale professors Judith A. Chevalier and Dina Mayzlin did a study on the effect of user-generated Amazon reviews on sales . The authors made some fascinating observations:   Good reviews significantly increase book sales 1-star reviews have a greater power to depress … [Read more...] about The Power of Good Reviews

One of the most important ways to overcome literary rejections is to focus on healthy habits. When you get rejected it’s easy to fall into the trap of skipping your workout, eating junk food, and not answering your phone. Once you go down that path it’s hard to stop, so don’t even go there!  Getting … [Read more...] about Faced With Literary Rejections? Stay Healthy

Seen on a bakery truck…Cakes: 66 cents. Upside down cakes: 99 cents.   If you’re committed to making money from ebooks, you should have one and only one pricing goal: The price that gets you the most amount of revenue.     How To Sell Your Book On … [Read more...] about Pricing That Makes The Sale

  Searching for some words of wisdom from other great writers who have experienced literary rejections? Keep reading for some inspiring quotes from well-known authors about their famous rejections. Reflecting on their insights may be a helpful step in accepting rejection and moving … [Read more...] about Advice From Other Great Writers