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Sell Books from Your Author Website, With Sacha Black and Orna Ross: Self-Publishing Fiction & Nonfiction Podcast

In this month’s Fiction & Nonfiction Self-Publishing Salon, Sacha Black and Orna Ross outline the advantages and downsides of selling books directly to readers from your own author website and consider the implications for exclusivity with platforms like KDP Select.

June 5, 2020
Howard Lovy
Business & Planning, Podcast, Process 1. Editorial, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution, Process 5 & 6: Marketing & Promotion, Writing
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The Ultimate Guide to Selling Books on your Author Website

Selling books is bread and butter for any author and increasing numbers of indie authors are making their own website the hub of their publishing business, with other online sellers as outposts. The Alliance of Independent Authors has a bookshop on this website where non-members can buy its books (All are free to members who can download by logging in allianceindependentauthors.org and navigating to the BOOKS menu). Today, we bring you the ultimate guide to selling books on your author website.

May 4, 2020
AskALLi Team
Business & Planning, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution, Top 100
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Why Do I Need an Author Website? Other Questions Answered by Orna Ross and Michael La Ronn; Plus, News with Daniel Holloway: Member Q&A & Self-Publishing News Podcast

Why Do I Need an Author Website? That's among the questions answered in this month's Members Q&A and Self-Publishing News…

February 21, 2020
Howard Lovy
Business & Planning, Opinion, Podcast, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution, Process 5 & 6: Marketing & Promotion, Writing
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What the Ideal Author Website Looks Like

Whether you use your website for content marketing or as a static home for information about you and your books, a website – in this day and age – is a must for all authors. Partner members, AllAuthor, are here to tell us what an ideal author website should contain.

September 16, 2019
Laksmhi Padmanaban
Business & Planning, Process 5 & 6: Marketing & Promotion
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Book Marketing: How to Add Mailing List Signups to Your Author Website

Like to build your author mailing list but don't know how to add one to your website? Let Rachel McCollin show you how - and why - with this example of a Mailchimp and Wordpress combination.

Best Practices for Author Websites: AskALLi Members’ Q&A September 2018

Welcome to AskALLi, the Self-Publishing Advice Podcast from the Alliance of Independent Authors. This week it’s our monthly Member Q&A…

September 16, 2018
Howard Lovy
Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution, Process 5 & 6: Marketing & Promotion, Writing
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Book Marketing: How to Build a WordPress Author Website and Use it Build a Mailing List – and Why You Should

Wondering whether to use WordPress for your author website? Already got a Wordpress website but want to make it work harder for you? Read this easy-to-follow overview by WordPress expert Rachel McCollin to help you get your site up to speed.

An Inventive Idea for Book Marketing & Promotion on your Author Website

How to get readers to visit more pages of your author website via a simple I-spy competition - by military history writer Russell Phillips