peeps: Kelly James-Enger
Kelly James-Enger has been a full-time freelancer, ghostwriter and author for over 15 years. Her books include the just-released Writer for Hire: 101 Secrets to Freelance Success (Writer’s Digest,...
View Articlewprdr: Apple And Amazon Earnings Show Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Is Steve Jobs’ True...
The Kindle Fire is not a success because it imitates the iPad. The Kindle Fire is a success because of the ways it doesn’t imitate the iPad: different form factor, different pricing and business model,...
View ArticlewprdrL Your Amazon Author Central Page: Tune Up, Tune In!
If you’re an author and your books are for sale at Amazon.com, you need an author page! Unfortunately, we run into many authors who either haven’t set up their own author page and/or haven’t put it to...
View Articlepeeps: Cameron D. Garriepy
Self-described shenaniganist and unabashed romantic, Cameron D. Garriepy wrote her first romance novel on an antique typewriter, using a stack of pink paper. Detours between that draft and her...
View Articlepeeps: Lily Lexington
The very prolific children’s book self-publisher Lily Lexington was a no-brainer choice for me to feature as a Wordpreneur Peeps: I read many of her rhyming children’s books to my 4yo Daniel at...
View Articlewprdr: 5 Best-Selling Kindle Books of All Time
Wordpreneur Thinking Out Loud: Why does it look like there are essentially only two titles on this list? And that women seem to be an extremely strong segment of this particular marketplace? Hmmm… It...
View Articlewprdr: Why Amazon’s Sales May Be Falling Behind This Holiday
Amazon’s ability to get orders to your door in time for the holidays may be having an unexpected consequence: Consumers are procrastinating longer than usual to buy presents online… Amazon gave...
View Articlewprdr: A Self-Publisher’s Guide to Kobo
If you’re wondering, “What’s a Kobo?” Here’s the backstory: Kobo entered the scene in 2010, marketing the Kobo e-Reader as a less expensive alternative to Kindle and Nook, which are currently the best...
View Articlepeeps: Samantha Holt
Samantha Holt lives in Warwickshire, England, with her twin girls, having followed her soldier husband around the UK for nearly 10 years. She grew up in Hampshire, inspired by authors Jane Austen and...
View Articlewprdr: E-Books Destroying Traditional Publishing? Not That Simple
Traditional publishers are traveling a long and confusing road into the digital future. To begin with, here’s the conventional wisdom about publishing: E-books are destroying the business model. People...
View Articlepeeps: Rachel Howzell Hall
Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Rachel Howzell Hall was always an avid reader and lover of books, getting a B.A. in English and American Literature from the University of California at...
View Articlepeeps: Emily Kimelman
Emily Kimelman is the author of the best-selling Sydney Rye series of dark murder mysteries. She lives on a boat in the Hudson Valley with her husband, Sean and their dog Kinsey (named after Sue...
View Articlewprdr: 7 Things KDP Select Can and Can’t do for you
If there is some reason why people are not buying your book when they run across it (too few reviews, negative reviews, badly designed cover, ineffective product description, badly written or formatted...
View Articlewprdr: How a Group of Michael Jackson Fans Sunk a Book on Amazon
Online book reviews on sites like Amazon and Goodreads have an immense power over the sales of newly published work, but how trustworthy are reviews? A new book about Michael Jackson shows the strength...
View Articlewprdr: eBooks Now Multi-Billion Dollar Category for Amazon
CEO Jeff Bezos…: ‘After 5 years, eBooks is a multi-billion dollar category for us and growing fast — up approximately 70% last year. In contrast, our physical book sales experienced the lowest December...
View ArticleIntroducing: Wordpreneur Tools Friday
Let’s start a new tradition hereabouts — new-ish, anyway, since in a sense, we’re revisiting our roots. Grasshopper, let me introduce you to… Wordpreneur Tools Friday! The concept’s simple: Every...
View Articlewprdr: Amazon Launches “Amazon Coins” Virtual Currency
Amazon has just announced a new virtual currency for Kindle Fire owners to use on in-app purchases, app purchases, etc. in the Amazon Appstore. The service will launch in May, at which point Amazon...
View Articlewprdr: Amazon Patent for Used eBook Marketplace Approved
Amazon’s patent for a technology that would let customers sell their previously read eBooks, audiobooks, music and movies the same way that consumers can now sell print books, DVDs and CDs, has been...
View Articlewprdr: Numbers From Amazon KDP Experiments
Some folks may remember last year, when a KDP free period for my ebook The List lead to me earning $100,000 in six weeks on Amazon. I haven’t been able to replicate that experience, but I have been...
View Articlewprdr: Half of Amazon Book Sales are Planned Purchases
But McCabe’s statistics show that only a piddling 10 percent of Amazon book choices are made because of its ‘bought this/also bought’ recommendation engine. Bestseller and top 100 lists influence 17...
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