Category Archives: Online Book Promotion

A book promotion specialist’s tools

Like all professionals, a book promotion specialist has her tools of the trade. One of the most important is the relationship she builds with each and every one of her media contacts. The identity of those TV and radio producers, … Continue reading

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Is 50 Years Too Late for Book Promotion?

Is 50 years too long to wait after an event to publish your story and hope to get some book promotion? Well, not if you’ve waited 50 years to talk about the affair you had with President John F. Kennedy while you were a White House intern, apparently. Continue reading

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Book Promotion Perspectives

A Houston Chronicle article talks about book promotion from the different perspectives of several successful authors including Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and others. Continue reading

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Here’s How to Garner Instant Book Promotion

Here’s how to garner an instant book promotion opportunity. Sell your book to a producer who creates a successful film best upon your book, and then have that film be nominated for an Oscar. There you have it: a chance to create buzz about your book. Continue reading

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Book Promotion and Book Marketing Perspective

Shaun Rein, author of the upcoming book, The End of Cheap China: Economic and Cultural Trends That Will Disrupt the World, shares his perspective on book promotion and book marketing in a Forbes article, Three Tips on Making Your Book a Bestseller. Continue reading

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Why Authors Hate Social Networking and How to Promote Books Online, Anyway

Publishers, faced with shrinking book promotion budgets, are more excited than ever about telling authors to promote their own books online. By online book promotion, publishers often mean social networking. They use the phrases interchangeably. The reason publishers are particularly excited about online book promotion is that, in their opinion, they don’t have to get involved in it. They can simply suggest that authors engage in online book promotion, and then step back and wait to see the results. It’s good for the publisher’s budget and easy on their resources, and it keeps authors busy. Continue reading

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I’ve touted Wikipedia as a book promotion tool.

After reading a PC World article called “The 15 Biggest Wikipedia Blunders,” I’m not so sure that I want to recommend Wikipedia for book promotion any longer.

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Look who’s tweeting and blogging.

So you think you don’t have time for online book promotion? According to Quill & Quire, Margaret Atwood does. In fact, Atwood may be one of the few novelists in North America who doesn’t have to worry about book promotion opportunities — and here she is, taking the time and making the effort to engage her readers online, anyway. Good for her.

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How to use Twitter for book promotion.

Just came across an excellent article in Publishing Trends that talks about how publishers are using Twitter for book promotion — and to win friends, allies, fans, and potential readers down the road. Although the article doesn’t extend the advice to authors, it’s clear that authors should follow the same Twitter techniques that are working for publishers.

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Follow me, where I go….

And, as a book publicist, I’d have to say that Scribd.com is offering a must-look-into-this book promotion opportunity, but as a social networker — and as a professional who understands that there are only so many hours in a day — I want to cry foul.

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