50 Ways To Reach Your Reader #6: Newsletters & Mailing Lists for Indie Authors
Indie authors often don't think about building a good e-mail database when they consider their book marketing plans. But the…
50 Ways To Reach Your Reader. # 2: Optimise Your Amazon Author Page
Amazon, the biggest book retailer in the world, was the first company to see the potential in retailing self-published work.…
50 Ways To Reach Your Reader #1 Introduction
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Guest Post: Independent Authors and Visibility by Linda Gillard
Linda knows how to be seen!
In an over-crowded marketplace, we assume it’s reviews that sell books and, predictably, it’s now possible to buy “honest reviews”. Could paid-for reviews be a good investment? Possibly, but I think we should be asking ourselves a different question—how do books find their readers? Or, to put it another way, what makes a book visible in the marketplace?