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May 30, 2017 by Nina Amir 27 Comments

Selling Your Ebook on Your Own Website vs. Amazon

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Once you’ve finished writing your ebook, you have a choice to make: sell it on Amazon or on your website. Which is the better option for you? Today, Michelle Deery provides the pros and cons of each ebook-selling option so you can decide. Have you just finished polishing up your brand new ebook? Great! Give […]

Filed Under: Selling Books and Information Products Tagged With: Amazon, blog, blogging, ebook, selling ebook, website

May 10, 2016 by Nina Amir 4 Comments

8 Reasons to Book a Blog

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Long-term bloggers are in a fabulous position to turn their blog content into a valuable book. However, some bloggers don’t know why they’d want to go to the trouble of “booking” their blogs. If you are on the fence about transforming yourself from blogger to author, these eight reasons might convince you to book your […]

Filed Under: Blogs Turned Into Books, Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book) Tagged With: blogs turned into books, book a blog, ebook, repurpose blog content into a book, series

January 22, 2015 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

6 Ways to Quickly Write an E-book to Build Your Mailing List

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Nothing matches the power of a large mailing list when it comes to marketing your books, products or services. No wonder it’s common to hear online marketers say, “There’s magic in the list.” Or, “Your list gives you a license to print money,” which means that when you promote to your list, your subscribers pay […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog Tagged With: call to action, e-book, ebook, free e-book, mailing list, quick e-book, subscriber list

June 26, 2014 by Nina Amir 17 Comments

Can You Blog a Book and Use the Amazon KDP and KDP Select Programs?

In November 2012 I wrote a post about publishing your blogged book as a Kindle ebook. It only referenced the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) program, not the KDP Select program. At this time, I’d like to update that information since I get asked about this often. Also, it has ramifications for your blogged book. Additionally, […]

Filed Under: Create an E-Book, Selfpublish Your Blogged Book, Selling Books and Information Products, What to Do When You Complete Your Blogged Book Tagged With: Amazon, digital books, ebook, KDP, KDP Select, publishing on Amazon

December 17, 2013 by Nina Amir 7 Comments

How to Use Pressbooks to Go Blog-to-Book (Part 1)

Guest post by Carla King When I found out that PressBooks had a blog-to-book tool, frankly, I didn’t expect much, as similar tools I’ve tried have crashed or stalled in the middle of the process without so much as an error message. But because, after all, it is my job, I was obligated to take […]

Filed Under: Selfpublish Your Blogged Book, What to Do When You Complete Your Blogged Book Tagged With: blog a book, blog-to-book, book a blog, ebook, export posts, Pressbooks, self-publish

June 20, 2013 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Basic Steps to Self-Publish Your Ebook or Print Book

Do you know how to self-publish your book?

No matter how you decide to self-publish your book, you go through a similar publishing process. That means you take certain steps, or complete certain tasks at particular points, as you—the publisher—usher your idea into its new, final status as “published book.” As you blogged your book, you published it once already—in post-sized bits. However, […]

Filed Under: Selfpublish Your Blogged Book Tagged With: ebook, print book, self-publish, self-publishing process

June 18, 2013 by Nina Amir 6 Comments

How to Self-Publish Your Blogged Book as an Ebook

How to produce an ebook

Ebook publishing represents one of the hottest publishing options available today. More people read ebooks than other types of books, and many writers and bloggers dream of becoming Amazon Kindle bestsellers. Digital publishing is, indeed, a fairly easy, inexpensive and quick way to produce a book, and it’s an even more interesting option for authors […]

Filed Under: Create an E-Book, Selfpublish Your Blogged Book, What to Do When You Complete Your Blogged Book Tagged With: blog-to-book, digital publishing, ebook, self-publishing

October 4, 2012 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Blurb Offers Ipad Users a Way to Go Blog-to-Book

More and more ways to go literally from blog to book seem to appear all the time. These technologies allow you to get your blog content–your blogged book–off your blog and into a book format. Blurb, a San Francisco-based creative publishing and marketing platform, is the latest to enter the field by giving Ipad users […]

Filed Under: Create a POD Book, Create an E-Book Tagged With: blog-to-book, blogs, digital books, ebook, Ipad

July 31, 2012 by Nina Amir 8 Comments

How to Successfully Self-Publish Your eBooked Blog

What happens if you don’t want to be discovered by a traditional publisher–if you’d rather book your own blog? Or what if you don’t get discovered by an agent or publisher and decide to become an indie publisher instead? Maybe you want to try your hand at producing an ebook… How do you make sure […]

Filed Under: Blogs Turned Into Books, Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book) Tagged With: Amazon Bestseller, booking a blog, branding, ebook, self-publishing

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