Saturday, May 15, 2010

After Your Book is Printed

After you have your book printed and ready to go, what do you do? You do the same thing that you would do if your book was published by a mainstream publishing company - promote it!
There are many ways that you can promote your book both online and off. One thing that you will want to do is to promote your book by getting some positive reviews on Amazon. If you have your book listed on Amazon, you can get reviews for the book from a book reviewing service. You can send them a disk with the book on it in PDF format and have people read it and give it a good review. The more reviews it gets, the more it will rise in Amazon.

You should have a website as a teaser for your book. When you have a website, you can sell books directly from the site or you can send the buyers to Amazon. You can become an affiliate of Amazon and get paid a commission on all of your sales. You can also have a post office box where people can order you book by mail. In addition, you can also direct them to the self publishing company where they can find the book. You can then market your website using strategies that are used to market any website.

You can place book reviews on the book to various book review websites online. There are many sites where you can place book reviews of your book. You can also put a link to the book website on these sites.

If you book is non-fiction, you want to write articles and place them in article hubs on the internet. Article hubs will allow you to place free articles online. Do a Google keyword analytics to see which are the right keywords for your book. You can write articles with these keywords and place them on the different sites with a backlink to your site.

In addition to promoting your book online, through the use of the website and book reviews, you can also join writing groups that are for self published writers. There are many sites that are made for self published writers that you can take advantage of and promote your book. You should also look into local libraries that often have groups for self published authors. There are often book fairs for self published authors as well.

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