You’ve written an ebook. Maybe you even blogged an ebook or booked an ebook. Now you have to decide where to sell it. You may think Amazon is your only choice, but it’s not. Today, Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress), a digital nomad and full-time writer, offers a comparison between selling your book on Amazon versus Gumroad. […]
How to Turn eBook Publishing into a Powerful Blog-Monetization Strategy
Books and blogs often fail to help writers earn a living. But if you turn your writing into products—ebooks—and sell them from your site, you can increase your income as well as your opportunities to succeed as an author. Today, freelance writer and ghostwriter Sanjay Bojan (@sanjaybojan) explains how an ecommerce site that sells ebooks […]
Become a Hybrid Blog-to-Book Author
You don’t have to blog your book with only the goal of traditional publishing in mind. Nor do you need to feel you only can self-publish your book. Instead, decide to become a hybrid author and enjoy the benefits of both traditional and indie publishing. It is possible to be both traditionally and self published. […]
Great Tool to Get More eBook Sales
By Ben Murray (@akbooster) Many people think it’s easy to produce an ebook. You can just slap something up on the Amazon Kindle platform and hope for the best. It’s better, however, to do your research first. That includes finding the right niche, the correct keywords, and later, when the ebook has been released, some […]
3+ Reasons I’ve Started Using Scrivener as a Blogging Tool
For a while now I’ve been toying around with the idea of using Scrivener as a writing tool. I hadn’t seriously considered using it for blogging, except I was interesting in finding out if it could become a blog-to-book tool. If it could import posts form WordPress, I figured it might be quite useful. I […]
Are You Cut Out to be an Indie Publisher?
Let’s say your blogged book doesn’t garner enough readers to attract a traditional publisher or you simply would rather independently publish your book. Great! Or not. The experience you have self-publishing your book depends to a great extent on if you are cut out to be more than just a writer or blogger. Before you […]
Publishing Options for Your Booked Blog
Once your booked blog has been professionally edited, you must decide how you will publish it. You have a variety of options for turning your blogged book manuscript into an actual book. Traditional Publishing If you’ve come this far—spending time and money on professional editing services, you have likely decided not to go the traditionally […]
Darren Rowse on Book Deals and Discovery in the Blogosphere
Like most recipients of blog-to-book deals, Darren Rowse landed his while simply blogging. However, he already had started thinking about writing a book—or, more specifically, turning his blog, ProBlogger, into a book. Then, he and his blog were discovered. That’s what many of us want—that email or phone call from an agent or publisher saying, […]
Chris Garrett on How to Turn Blog Readers Into Book Buyers
As part of this blog’s new focus, this is the first of a series of posts I’m going to publish during January based upon interviews I conducted at BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Los Angeles, CA, in early November 2011. While there I had the opportunity to speak with Chris Garrett, Darren Rowse, Liz […]