Rise above the Crowd
Posted in eBooks, General, Publishing industry on Jun 28th, 2012
Google have announced a 7-inch tablet which will directly compete with sales of the Amazon Kindle fire. Plus Google Play, where you can buy eBooks, now also has magazines, movies and TV. Google’s overall platform is suddenly very enticing, offering what Amazon does, and a whole lot more. The new Google Nexus 7 tablet will [...]
‘When Good Kids Do Bad Things‘ by Katherine Gordy Levine is getting a new cover. The new design features a silhouette image of a teenager balancing precariously on one leg. The clouds in the background suggest she is up high. Her body language suggests that she is struggling, but maybe having fun too. Is she [...]
Posted in eBooks, Marketing, Publishing industry on Jun 25th, 2012
Someone new to eBook publishing posed the question in a Digital Publishing group on Linked In recently, how is important is a cover for eBooks? The answer is … very. It’s easy to imagine that they are not as important since the books are not lining shelves in a study or lounge room like print [...]
Including a sales pitch which explains what is good about your ebook and why people should buy it does two great things: 1) Writing the sales pitch focuses your attention on what is great about your ebook and who the audience truly is. It’s important to pitch your ebook to the right people. Being too [...]
Posted in eBooks, Marketing, Publishing industry, Social Media, Web Presence on Jun 15th, 2012
Guest blogging is more easily done if your ebook is non-fiction. You’ll find blogs on every topic known to man. Just google a keyword related to your ebook’s topic and start contacting bloggers, large and small, introducing yourself and offering to provide a free guest blog. In my experience, as you do this you will [...]
Posted in Marketing, Publishing industry on Jun 13th, 2012
When you publish a book on Amazon you get to enter seven keywords that you think are clearly associated with your book and its topic or genre. You also get to choose two categories on the Kindle store where it will be listed. In doing so you are tagging your book to come up in [...]
Posted in MetaPlume eBooks, Publishing industry on Jun 8th, 2012
It’s been a pleasure to read over ‘Parents Are People Too. An Emotional Fitness Program for Parents’, Katherine’s second book (her first being ‘When Good Kids Do Bad Things‘). Originally published in print by Penguin 1997, the book will soon be e-published by MetaPlume on Amazon. The book has been taken from print, to pdf, [...]
Posted in MetaPlume eBooks on Jun 5th, 2012
Mother of three beautiful kids, Practicing Parenting, took advantage of last week’s free download offer on Amazon to grab a copy of ‘When Good Kids Do Bad Things’. Stephanie’s kids are not teenagers yet, but she decided that the book is one she’ll hold on to for a future resource. Some parts also resonated with her [...]
Posted in MetaPlume eBooks on Jun 5th, 2012
Posted in MetaPlume eBooks on Jun 1st, 2012
Hey, I didn’t say it, a reviewer on Amazon did! Almost 2000 people have taken advantage of the free offer (ending hours from now) of ‘When Good Kids Do Bad Things‘ on Amazon and we’re already seeing reviews come in. Read This Today! If you are a parent of a teen (especially one who has [...]
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