Review: If you are selling a book for the Kindle, you need this.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 8, 2012
If you are trying to sell a book for the Kindle, this is probably the most important book you could own. That's not hyperbole. Amazon has changed their ranking system and promotional rules, and the ballgame is different from even last year. While many books contain excellent timeless maxims of sales and advertising, this is the one that tells you exactly how to apply them today for Kindle ebooks. The author tells you about tagging, about how to maximize your chances of getting on one or several Amazon top 100 lists, and the most useful forums for author promotion available and exactly how to use them. I only bought it a day ago, so unlike others I haven't put most of the advice into effect yet, but a few things are obvious once she points them out - though many others aren't.So, can you really jump start your career in eight hours? The key word is jumpstart. After you jump start a car you still have to drive it somewhere, figure out why it wouldn't start without jumper cables, and regularly take care of fuel and maintenance. Her eight main chapters are called hours. The author reminds you that you get out of this what you put into it. One of the first tasks is to compare your advertising copy and cover are to a book in your category that is where you want to be. If you do that, and realize it is very poor, and nod your head at this insight and go on, you could finish that chapter in an hour. If you investigate cover artists and negotiate prices with them, that one task will take more than an hour, but you will benefit greatly from this book.