Amazon Kindle Sales vs. book sales in general… the printed book ain’t going away

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 [...]

Using Amazon Connect as book promotion for the self publishing author

(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 [...]

Amazon Kindle Webinar – self publishing implications

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” [...]

TitleZ – Amazon tracking for self publishing authors

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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