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Pubslush - The crowd funding platform for authors
Pubslush is a publishing platform with a cause. Authors fundraise and gauge the initial market for new book ideas, trend setting readers pledge their support to bring books to life, and Pubslush supports children's literacy initiatives worldwide.
Would a seminar go well with your book? Develop extra income with live events using Eventbrite
Eventbrite gives you all the online tools you need to bring people together for an event and sell tickets.
They help you create events using four core principles;
Publish/ Promote/ Manage/ Sell Out
The 100 most wished for books on Amazon
Online retailer Amazon, kindly curates lists of information for us about their customers habits.
Self publishers can use this data to help find what readers are wanting to buy. Amazon has a "Most Wished For" list, which as the name suggests, is a list of books that people have put on their wishlist ready to buy in the future.
Do you realise how valuable this is?
The first self published author to sell over 1 million books via kindle
In a guest post on the jakonrath blog, he explains "For the first time in history, there's an advantage to being an independent author"
He also explains the strange feeling that his success has brought, saying "Today I was contacted about selling the movie rights to my Donovan Creek novels. I was also contacted by a literary agent for representation. On the other hand, I feel weird because I'm the same guy no one paid any attention to last year"
Create an online digital book store using goodsie
Got a load of ghetto ebooks that you want to sell in one place? Goodsie could be right up your street?
Create a ridiculously well designed website for your book in minutes, with tumblr (Cost $0)
Sell book related merchandise with cafepress
Need $$$ to fund your book idea? Turn to crowd funding platforms for help
If enough people want to see your book published, you can ask them to invest in the idea to turn it into reality. Sites offering this facility are:
- Kickstarter (USA)
- Sponsume (UK & Europe)
- Peerbackers (Global)
As Alison Flood reported in the Guardian HERE, Rich Burlew was able to use Kickstarter to raise $1m for his self published webcomic book,
Create & sell ghetto eBooks in minutes - Part II
In a previous post, we explained how you can create and sell Ghetto eBooks in minutes using a combination of Google Docs and Gumroad.
In this post, we'll explain how you can create a similar product using a platform called Express Payloadz.
(It's probably worth mentioning that a ghetto eBook is a written document that is bought by customers online,
What are the pitfalls one should avoid when self publishing a book?
By Andrew Pyle
Over on Quora, someone asked the question,
"What are the pitfalls one should avoid when self publishing a book? Also, what are the best practices to be followed?"
This was my reply......
"What are the pitfalls one should avoid when self publishing a book? Also, what are the best practices to be followed?"
This was my reply......
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