Welcome to my weekly roundup of book publishing news, tips and resources.
As I mentioned in a recent post, it's important to feature your book cover prominently on your author website or blog. It's great to hyperlink your book cover so that when people click on it they will go directly to your book's sales page or Amazon page. Learn exactly how to do that in this tutorial from Tony Eldridge.
Thank you to Penny Sansevieri and Paula Krapf at Author Marketing Experts for hosting me on The Publishing Insiders radio show this week. You can listen to our interview about book reviews here, and there's also a discussion of ebooks at the beginning of the show.
More changes from Facebook: they are removing the Discussions tab from Facebook Pages on October 31 to "encourage conversation and feedback is through posts and comments on the Wall."
Last night, Shelley Hitz and I presented a free webinar, Ebook Publishing Basics for Authors, where we talked about why authors should be publishing ebooks now and what their options are for preparing and publishing ebooks. You can watch the free replay here.
To cut your learning curve and help you master the ebook publishing process quickly, Shelley and I have also developed an in-depth training program, eBook Publishing Success: How to Prepare, Publish and Profit from eBooks.
I really enjoyed this article from Joan Stewart, the Publicity Hound, on how to make sure your website address gets mentioned in media stories.
If you're a children's book author or publisher, or a book marketing expert, please share your top children's book marketing tip on this page by October 10 and you'll be registered to win a complimentary copy of the Savvy Book Marketing Guide of your choice.
This week I published the third in the series of guest posts from Smashwords CEO Mark Coker: Ebook Publishing Trends.
That's all the news for this week. Here's to your book publishing success!
Dana,
Thank you for being a guest - we enjoyed having you on the show!
Paula
Posted by: PaulaatAME | October 10, 2011 at 07:07 PM