After you’re published now it’s time to market that book! Whether it be ebooks or print make sure you are on all of these websites:
Authonomy
Bibliophil
Book Buzzr
BookBrowse
Bookhitch
Booksie
Filed By
Jacket Flap
KindleBoards
LibraryThing
Nothing Binding
On Book Talk
SavvyBookWriters
Scribd
Shelfari
Wattpad
WhoWroteThat
WritersNet
And, of course make sure you are on all of the major bookstore’s websites as well as ireaders. Check out bookbaby.com or smashwords.com.
In order to earn a few pennies have you have to join up to affiliate programs. One program that is really good if you have a website or blog and publish your own books is: pepperjamnetwork.com.
If you have a website or a blog you are doing yourself a great dis-service if you are not utilizing affiliate programs. Let’s face it, money is tight at the moment and people are not going to give anything away for free. And, that goes for advertising space. The best way to earn a few pennies is to sign up to an affiliate program and pick and choose who you’d like on your website.
You can google affiliate programs for websites and see what happens.
Some of my affiliates so far are:
I am also on the pending list for several others. In the future, if I ever do upgrade to another website they will be all along the side of the website. WordPress.com is a bit tricky when it comes to making money on the site. WordPress.org is the best website to have if you want to earn money from google or other affiliates. And, I must say google does pay out as well.
Every penny counts!
So, I’ve downloaded Calibre. I’ve uploaded the files wrong because what no one tells you is that they need to be in .pdf format. Not .jpg or any other file of the sort. PDF works best. And, because I have children something that would take a ‘normal’ person to work out takes me 3x longer due to lack of concentration and lack of time allowed on the computer. (Thank goodness WordPress has the schedule post button because I could write a few posts and then they automatically go out on the date set- even though I love my computer being glued to it is not my idea of a Friday Funday).
At any rate, my next mission is to turn our book, Bud & Roo’s Spectacular Adventures-The Beach, into an ePub file. Watch this space! If you want to produce an ebook that most ereaders can ‘read’ then put the file in an ePub format. Calibre can do it for you. Then, make sure you check it (bookbaby.com will prompt you to check it). In the mean time, I have registered with Bookbaby.com. They are going to do the rest of the stuff for me. (https://www.bookbaby.com/) We are going to sell our book worldwide and keep 100% of the royalties. Bookbaby.com offers printing, design help, and more. Bookbaby.com boasts:
“BookBaby delivers your books to Amazon, iBookstore, Barnes & Noble and many more. Plus we’re adding new eBook stores almost every month. Your eBook can be read on every reading device — Kindle, iPad, Nook, Sony Reader, and more.”
Why would you spend countless evenings trying to do this all of yourself when you can pay someone $99 to do it for you? Trust me, it just makes sense.
