If you are a fan of print books, then you will enjoy this video showcasing books. Its message is great: “There is nothing quite like a real book!”
Produced by the owners of a bookstore in Toronto, this stop-motion video was filmed during many sleepless nights moving, stacking, and animating books at their bookstore. Enjoy.
In today’s digital ebook era, world-wide ebook sales are growing. However, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple and other online retailers don’t reach to all parts of the world. The number of foreign countries they sell in is limited.
If you sell digital books and are actively increasing or seeking to increase the worldwide sale of your ebooks, I would suggest that you consider a service that provides a digital goods ecommerce platform in addition to having your ebooks listed in online retail stores.
With a digital goods ecommerce service, you can still host your books on your website, but sales and fulfillment are made through the digital sales service. This service store your book files, collect the payment when a book is sold, and send a unique link for the download to each customer (helping to reduce piracy).
Two services to consider are PayLoadz and Kagi. Both of these services basically provide the same platform; however, they do differ on pricing. PayLoadz charges a monthly maintenance fee and then takes a lower percentage cut of each sale, while Kagi does not charge a monthly maintenance fee, but takes a higher percentage cut of each sale. Each service also places your product in their online store as well as allowing you to sell directly from your website, Facebook, and other online places you have a presence.
Using one of the digital ecommerce platforms to sell your ebooks has a few benefits:
If 2012 is the year you want to increase the worldwide sales of your ebooks, maybe it’s time you checked out these services.
Dan Poynter is known as the self-publishing guru. His books and services help authors self-publish their books with success.
In this interview, Dan talks about writing and the importance of making sure what you write is truth. Good advice for all writers, but especially for you who seek to advance God’s Kingdom through your books.
If you have not heard of World Book Night, don’t worry. Your head is not in the sand. This year will be the inaugural year for World Book Night in the United States.
World Book Night is a fascinating idea. It is a campaign that hopes to distribute one million free books across America all in one day—April 23, 2012.
You read that right. World Book Night is giving away one million books on April 23, 2012, in an effort to get more people to read.
To accomplish this, the campaign is seeking 50,000 volunteer book lovers to distribute the books on April 23, 2012.
Organizers of the event have said, “We want the book givers to reach out to new or light readers, especially in underserved places like nursing homes, schools, hospitals, and poor neighborhoods, but also in public gathering places like coffee shops and malls. And by offering a range of fiction, nonfiction, and books for teens, we believe we have great books that the givers will be passionate about handing out and that will appeal to a wide audience of potential new readers.”
Volunteers will give away books from 30 titles chosen by a panel of judges. Looking at the list of titles (which you can view here), not one of these books is a Christian book.
I think that World Book Night is a laudable idea. Giving away books to encourage people to read and promote literacy in the United States is wonderful. Here comes my but…
Think how much more powerful an impact World Book Night would have if, instead of just giving away one million free books that encouraged people to read, it gave away books that also had an eternal impact on people.
Maybe someone in the Christian community will start an Eternal World Book Night. Now, that would be awesome.
Are you looking for some extra exposure for a book? Try Pay with a Tweet.
Here is how Pay with a Tweet works. To gain exposure for your new (or old) book via social media (Twitter or Facebook), you offer a teaser version of your book for the price of a tweet or post. People pay for the teaser version of your book by telling their friends on either Twitter or Facebook about your book. After tweeting or posting, the reader gets to download a copy of the teaser version of your book.
With this system, readers get new material and you gain more exposure for your new book.
Authors and Publishers can use the Pay with a Tweet service to create a “Pay with a Tweet” button to use for promoting the book and allowing people to purchase the teaser version of your book with a tweet (or post).
Watch this video to learn more about how Pay with a Tweet works.
