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Jenny Blake's Spreadsheet for Self-Published Authors
Author Jenny Blake offers up the secrets of her publishing success via The Domino Project. There is no one size fits all approach to promoting a book, but there can be a more streamlined way to get organized.
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Twitter
Twitter is a real-time information network that connects you to the latest information about what you find interesting, via a system of following other users and categorizing information by "hashtags." The network is limited to information streams called "tweets" that are 140 characters in length, or less.
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Facebook Pages for Your Book/Website
Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet. You can use the service to set up a "page" to promote your e-book.
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Social Media for Dummies
In one succinct post, we explain how to set up accounts within and how to use: Twitter, Facebook, Amazon Author Central, YouTube, bitly, TweetDeck, HootSuite and LinkedIn.
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SocialOomph
SocialOomph is an entirely free dashboard that allows you to navigate twitter. You can: set up scheduled and auto-updates, auto-replies, and auto-follows and -unfollows; track conversations via specific keywords; find new people/businesses to follow based on interests and brands; organize your followers into groups; automatically feed new blog entries to your twitter account; and integrate link shortener services such as bit.ly to keep links you post... short....
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Kindle Boards
Kindle Boards is a network aimed at ebook authors and kindle owners/readers, which includes discussions about the kindle machine, ebooks available on kindle, and ebook promotion.
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Kindle Nation Daily
A blog featuring kindle tips, ebook news and commentary, and alerts about free kindle books. Authors/publishers can purchase a variety of promotions on the site.
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How to Manage Twitter and Facebook via SocialOomph
A how-to article on using SocialOomph to build and easily manage large quantities of Twitter followers and Facebook groups.
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Frugal eReader
A site featuring ebooks available at the Amazon Kindle Store for under $9. Authors and publishers can sign up for paid promotions.
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Ereader News Today
Tips, tricks, and free ebooks for your kindle. Authors and publishers can sign up for paid promotions on this site.
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How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in 5 Months! by John Locke
John Locke reveals the marketing system he created to sell more than 1,100,000 eBooks in five months, including discussions about social networking, mailing lists, marketing services, and pricing.
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Kindle Reader
An Amazon affiliate blog run by a librarian that features reviews of ebooks.
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How to Use SocialOomph (For Free!)
A booknook.biz post explaining step-by-step how to set yourself up on socialoomph.
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Library Thing
An online library-quality catalog and book club, featuring book recommendations and reviews, groups, and discussion boards.
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Goodreads
A network linking readers to writers, readers to readers, and writers to writers. Users can share books they are reading, write reviews and recommendations, communicate with authors, and find new books based on genre and tastes.
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KDP Select
An marketing program in which an ebook is made temporarily available exclusively at Amazon on a sliding pricing scale, theoretically increasing an ebook's spot on bestseller lists.
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Nook Boards
A comprehensive database of discussion boards for nook users, authors, publishers, including technical nook machine support and promotion tips.
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Kindle Obsessed
A kindle blog that accepts ebook review requests, focusing on paranormal and dystopian genres.
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Free Kindle Books & Tips
A blog providing a quick summary of the daily free book offerings from Amazon as well as the thousands upon thousands of books, short stories, and more available for you to read on your Kindle for no charge from numerous sites in addition to Amazon.
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E-book Worm
A blog of Amazon kindle news, ebook reviews, and enhancements.