Blog SEO and Book Marketing for Self Publishing Authors

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Ray Robinson

Using Blog SEO in Your Book Marketing Efforts A large number of self published authors start a blog with the two-fold intention of communicating with readers AND building better book marketing success. A blog about a self published book can be a very effective book marketing tool for promoting a book and distributing information. However, [...]

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e-books and their impact on print book sales

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Ray Robinson

The American Association of Publishers (AP) recently reported that sales of e-books rose to $90.3 million in February 2011. E-book release accounted for 20.4% in total book sales that month. In the first two months of 2011, e-books sales rose 169.4% while print books declined by 24.8%. In 2010, online retailer Amazon also reported that [...]

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Book Marketing and Video Book Trailers for self publishing authors

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Ray Robinson

Video Book Trailers as Book Marketing for self publishing authors The time of social media has arrived (many would argue it arrived quite some time ago…) and has dramatically changed how most of us communicate. Under the right circumstances, and when done well, social media will drive traffic to your website, help the market perceive [...]

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The Difference Between Book Publicity and Book Advertising

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Ray Robinson

Marketing a book successfully by using a book publicist Occasionally I come across people much smarter than I am… OK, so it’s more than just occasionally… Anyway – this is one of those times when an expert in the industry so succinctly and clearly explains a topic that I feel the need to let THEM [...]

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Self publishing ebooks & print books – and why they shouldn’t look the same…

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Ray Robinson

Why formatting for ebooks and print shouldn’t be the same I thought I’d take some time today to address a relatively new situation – the creation of self publishing authors interested in the creation of e-book product for their print books. My company, Dog Ear Publishing is an Apple-authorized aggregator for the Apple iBookstore. Being [...]

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The SEO factor of back cover copy for self publishing authors

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Ray Robinson

Book Cover Copy, Self Publishing, and SEO You’ve spent years crafting your manuscript – now as you prepare to self publish your book you start to think about the cover. Often times authors think more about their book cover design than they do the book marketing cover copy and back cover flow. Yes, a great [...]

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Importance of book title SEO to self publishing authors

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Ray Robinson

Self Publishing – the impact of great SEO book titles and copy I spent some time chatting with an author today about self publishing their book – and exactly HOW to make the book stand out ‘SEO-wise’ on the various online bookstores and search engines (Google Book Search specifically). Creating great SEO for your book [...]

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Self publishing requires a strong First Amendment – support 1 for All

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Ray Robinson

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.“ It seems so easy to understand, yet I doubt any [...]

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

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Ray Robinson

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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The Power of the Talk Show – Rock Junket: New York City from Dog Ear Publishing

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Ray Robinson

Dog Ear Publishing author Bobby Pinn has been at the business of New York City tours for years. He’s built a career and reputation on showing visitors (and New York natives) the famous haunts and ‘rock-historic’ locales in New York City. He (and his book) were featured on the Fox News New York morning show. [...]

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