Amazon > Books about it

Hi,
just finished reading a good book about how to get found on Amazon. Listing is one thing. Working your way up the ranks in order to get noticed by potential buyers is the actual art of selling books over there.

I am not tooting my own horn so i dont consider it advertising and hope that plugging a good collection of "fishing advice" at this point is considered appropriate by all > Look for a book by the name of "Sell your book on Amazon" by Brent Sampson. 

Another one that i heard of is "aiming at amazon" by aaron shepard.

Those two in combination and some serious time spent on marketing should at least double your current sales on Amazon ;)

Florian

--- In [email protected], "auwg" <auwg@...> wrote:
>
> Amazon. Ha. Unless you do something to gain fame or notoriety, you'll very likely sell more copies from a private website than you will at Amazon.
> But since most people don't know that, you can still say, "My stuff's at Amazon" at non-literary parties and look KEWL! :)
> 
> Fictionwise is still the best place to sell ebooks... at least until Barnes & Noble gives Fictionwise the B.Dalton treatment.
> Strongly hoping that won't happen. BN flatly doesn't have the hang of selling ebooks yet.
> 
> I think Omnilit (of/by ARE) could become a major in the ebook industry. Last time I checked, the titles displayed were mostly romance and femporn, but they've diversified into the other genres and they seem to understand how to reach readers.
> My stuff is at Omnilit via Lightning Source/Ingram, which means it didn't show as easily in in-site searches. Once I located one of my titles there, I was able to find the others with a bit of effort.
> I guess I could change those results if I sent the titles up myself, but I'm currently tired of doing stuff like that. Maybe later.
> 
> Conventions. SF conventions, other-genre conventions, comic conventions (yes, they read real books, too). Maybe we could organize a bit and have a few authors at each convention flacking both their own titles and this group or a publisher/reseller/sponsor-of-some-sort.
> Maybe epublishers and resellers should consider having a booth at the major conventions. Authors could man the booth. Cheap labor. :)
> Ed
> Ed Howdershelt - Abintra Press
> Science Fiction & Semi-Fiction
> http://www.AbintraPress.com
> 
> --- In [email protected], "johnnydrhodes" wrote:
> > Hi Ed
> > I was hoping to pick some idea up myself lol!  I've just put my book out on Kindle/Amazon but only 1 purchase - I've read some blogs etc where new self publishers do the same and end up selling lots so... what are they doing...
> > 
> > --- In [email protected], "auwg" wrote:
> > > No sweat. Got any marketing ideas?
> > > Ed
>




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