The Authorpreneur Blog

Unleashing a New Division and Consulting Soon!

As  business has grown and evolved, we are looking at new ways to help authors, beyond our initial model.  We will be announcing packages at the beginning of April that will include all aspects of the process of publishing a book.  We call it the 3 Ps – PREPARATION (includes producing a print ready manuscript), [...]

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Amazon introduces a new short cut to your Amazon book URL

Your friend has asked you to send her a link to your book on amazon.  You go grab the URL and send her a long ugly address to your book.  Well it doesn’t need to be that way now that Amazon has created a nifty URL shortcut for your books being sold on Amazon.   [...]

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Where are books being sold? The breakdown of Book vs E-book Sales.

E-book vs Traditional Publishing:   E-book sales have done nothing but increase since they were introduced to the U.S. market. In 2010, e-books accounted for 10% of all book sales, but this doubled to 20% in 2011. By the second quarter of 2012, e-books held 22% of the market.   From January 2011 to January [...]

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Great Holiday Ebook Sale at Indiebookfestival.com

The Indie Book Festival   The Indie Book Festival is the website for seasonal ebook sales events. For every holiday, the Indie Book Festival runs sales for popular and bestselling indie titles, and from December 28th to the 31st they’re selling every ebook listed on their site for just 99 cents.   The team at [...]

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4 secrets on how to promote your ebook for the Holiday

How to Promote E-book Sales for Holiday Spenders   On Christmas Day, millions of people will be unwrapping brand new Kindles, Nooks, and other e-book readers. And for several weeks, they’ll be looking for e-books to buy to fill their shiny new toys. You can capitalize on the surge of spending with a few of [...]

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Fantastic Holiday Gift!

What if you went to the mailbox one day and received a letter from God asking you to host a dinner – God’s honor? Award-winning author, composer and lyricist Rayme Sciaroni shares the irresistible story of Jenny, a woman in her early 50’s who receives such an invitation. Jenny is requested to invite to the [...]

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How to Promote your Self Published Book on GoodReads

How to Use GoodReads to Promote Your Self Published Book What is GoodReads? GoodReads is a site and book database that allows readers to create customizable “bookshelves” (such as “My Favorite Books,” “Want to Read,” “Best Children’s Books,” etc) to keep track of their favorite books and reading lists. Site users can also review books and read others’ [...]

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