Everyone has probably heard about or read the press release from Amazon announcing that the online bookseller reached a point at which they sell more Kindle books than hardcover books. In reading and watching much of the media coverage you’d think the printed book was on the way out. Interesting. More interesting though are a [...]
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I’ve been dismayed that over the past week or so the no-cost service that allow self published authors to track their Amazon.com sales rank is no longer online (www.titlez.com – I wrote an article on tracking your amazon sales rank last August in which I discussed the site). I placed a call to the company [...]
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(we are getting this question quite a bit – so I’m posting a reprint of an article on Amazon Connect from the Dog Ear Publishing web site) What is Amazon Connect … and why is it important to a self published author? AmazonConnect is a highly targeted blog within Amazon.com where authors can do a [...]
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It’s been ages since I’ve posted anything here… caught up in ‘working IN the business’ rather than ‘working ON the business’ at Dog Ear Publishing. However, I’m back with renewed vigor for continuing to create something of value for the general world of self published authors. Something came up repeatedly over the past few weeks [...]
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I’ve just attended a webinar about the Amazon Kindle product, titled “Leveraging he Kindle – How to maximize the Kindle’s benefits to your readers and your business” presented by Joe Wikert of John Wiley & Sons. The webinar was for the most part aimed at book publishers, but in the self-publishing world the word “publisher” [...]
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At Dog Ear Publishing we use a product called TitleZ to track Amazon sales ranks for many of our books. This s a free service that allows you to create an account and load books that you’d like to see tracked. At this point, TitleZ is free and in beta – that may change, and [...]
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This is an excerpt from my web site – www.DogEarPublishing.net – and our articles section — This page is a regularly updated, continual discussion of my most frequent questions about book sales and how the market works – this one happens to cover the “what in the world does my Amazon sales rank number mean?” [...]
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