55 Ways to Promote & Sell Your Book on the Internet
by Bob Baker
I’m going to try to keep this review short simply because it needn’t be long. 55 Ways
to Promote & Sell Your Book on the Internet by Bob Baker is quite simply the best companion
book you might find to any on book marketing you already have on your shelf.
That becomes evident as early as the copyright page (yes, I read copyright pages and if
you’re an author, you should, too!) where he says his book is designed to "complement, amplify,
and supplement other texts," and goes on to suggest, "You are urged to read all available material
and tailor the information to your individual needs."
Mmmm. Isn’t that what I just said? Caring—and smart—book marketing. The chapter
and challenge titled "55 Ways’ Internet Book Promotion Challenge" exemplifies this caring
marketing principle and is one no one in publishing should miss. I only despair that it is at
the end of the book.
So, even if you already have my
The Frugal Book
Promoter or John Kremer’s
1001 Ways to
Promote Your Book or any of the other dozens I often recommend, this book—this
one book—should be your brush-up marketing book for 2010. |
The Book |
Bob Baker |
2009 |
Paperback |
0971483868 / 978-0971483866 |
How-To / Writing |
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Excerpt |
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The Reviewer |
Carolyn Howard-Johnson |
Reviewed 2010 |
NOTE: Reviewer Carolyn
Howard-Johnson is the award-winning author of This is the Place, Harkening: A
Collection of Stories Remembered, and a chapbook of poetry titled Tracings, winner
of the Military Writers Society of America's Award of Excellence and named Top Ten Best Reads
by the Compulsive Reader. She is also the author of the HowToDoItFrugally Series of books
including The
Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success,
a USA Book News and Reader Views Literary Award winner,
The Frugal Book
Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't, the 2004 winner of USA Book News' Best
Professional Book of the Year and Irwin awards, and, most recently,
Great
Little Last-Minute Editing Tips for Writers: The Ultimate Frugal Booklet for Avoiding Word Trippers
and Crafting Gatekeeper-Perfect Copy. Current projects include a Celebration Series
of poetry chapbooks with Magdalena Ball.
She
Wore Emerald Then,
Cherished
Pulse, and
Imagining
the Future are available through Amazon.com. Carolyn is also Myshelf.com's
"Back to Literature"
columnist |
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