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A concise step-by-step guide to marketing your book. Complete with all the resources and references you need, including: defining and locating your target audience, the best places to distribute your book and creating a demand using publicity and promotion. Includes a section on the Internet…. More >>
A Simple Guide to Marketing Your Book: What an Author and Publisher Can Do to Sell More Books
Tags: best places, publicity, target audience
#1 by Anonymous on June 24, 2010 - 12:22 am
I bought this book as an author of fiction, hoping to get my first novel accepted by a publisher. The book seemed to be advertised for this purpose, so I bought it. I found it almost completely useless for my purposes, and my low rating of it reflects this.
The book may be very useful for other people. It’s for someone who is doing the marketing of the book to the public. The advice for this may be great (I don’t know as I’m not doing that). It also gives lists of resources which the marketer can use, but these are heavily biased toward the USA.
If you are trying to sell a book to the public in the USA, this may be just the book for you. But it was no use to me.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on June 24, 2010 - 12:34 am
“This powerful volume packs tremendous punch page after page! With its step-by-step instruction, resources and clear straightforward direction, this book is appropriate for every publisher’s resource shelf.”
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Richard H Frishman on June 24, 2010 - 12:45 am
I really enjoyed this book. It is easy to read and gives a writer great tips on marketing and publicity. I recommend this book highly. Rick FrishmanPres. Planned TV Arts (NYC)Co- author GUERRILLA PUBLICITY and GUERRILLA MARKETING FOR WRITERS
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Todd Hagopian on June 24, 2010 - 3:12 am
I have self-published over thirty books now, and I have read most of the titles in this specific genre. This book is a great resource for information sources that will help you market your book. The only complaint I have is that it focused much more on selling books to bookstores, when online selling is really beginning to dominate the self-publishing industry. The book was written in 2001, so that kind of makes sense. I still gave the book 4 stars because all of the stuff in the book is still valuable, and it will help you in the industry.
Enjoy!
Todd Hagopian
President/CEO
Hagopian Institute
Author of the brand new book – Self Publisher Coach: “Sell More Books In 30 Days” Edition
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by jblumenstock on June 24, 2010 - 3:44 am
Marketing can be anything but simple until you understand the basic concepts. From test marketing to book sales this book has great information. Mark Ortman takes you through the entire process and gives great resources for each section along the way. This is the first book I read on marketing and still reference material from this book.
Rating: 4 / 5