Book marketing is an important component to successful self publishing. Outskirts Press is an industry leader in providing post-publication support, products, and services to its growing family of published authors.
Even if you have published elsewhere, our list of Top 10 Book Marketing Options can help you prioritize your book marketing efforts by providing you with the most popular and effective book marketing and promotional tactics as determined by our authors. These are tactics that are strongly recommended for successful book marketing after publication. Many of these products and services are even available to authors who did not publish with Outskirts Press. Visit our Marketing Solutions page to view the growing list of marketing options available to authors, regardless of where they published.
These are the marketing products and services determined to be most popular by our authors for the month of September 2010, listed below in alphabetical order:
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Amazon Extreme Package Save 25% on 3 amazing marketing tactics centered around Amazon: The Amazon Kindle Edition, Search Inside the Book, and the Keyword Search Submission Service. Plus a free copy of the Amazon best selling book, Sell Your Book on Amazon. |
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Amazon Kindle Edition The Amazon Kindle is a revolutionary wireless reading device that allows its owners to instantly download books and newspapers. Only books that have been submitted to the Amazon Kindle via the required process and in the required format are available for Kindle readers to purchase and enjoy. |
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Amazon Search Inside the Book Amazon’s “online equivalent” to browsing a bookstore. Amazon claims that books participating in this program enjoy “significant” sales improvement, on average, over books that do not. |
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Barnes & Noble See Inside Barnes & Noble’s answer to Amazon’s “Search Inside the Book” program. Books that participate in this program receive a “See Inside” icon next to their Barnes & Noble cover image, which invites potential customers to electronically “flip” through a small section of the book. |
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Bookmarks Bookmarks are a wonderful promotional item to pass out because people rarely throw them away; they actually use them! |
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Custom T-Shirt Due to popular demand, you can now customize a high-quality t-shirt with your book (front cover on the front and back cover on the back). |
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ForeWord Magazine Co-op Advertisement Co-op advertising allows you to secure premium, full-color exposure for your book in a high-quality trade publication for a minimal amount of money. |
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Personal Marketing Assistant The Outskirts Press Personal Marketing Assistant option is ideal for authors who want marketing assistance that is personal and specific. The Personal Marketing Assistant is available to work with you in five hour blocks of time to promote your book in accordance with your plan and goals. |
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PR Publicist Like having your own publicist distribute your press release for you… Plus, after the release goes out, you will receive all the resulting leads for more personal follow-up, plus an electronic clipping service. |
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Press Release – Standard The standard publication press release includes information about you and your book taken directly from your webpage and then distributed electronically to a database of approximately 100,000 media contacts, newsrooms, industry analysts, and freelance writers. |
Outskirts Press published authors who are interested in any of these options can find further details and ordering information by clicking on the name (or image) of the option above. Information about additional marketing options can be found on the Marketing Options page of your Author’s Center.
Authors who published elsewhere can visit our Marketing Solutions page to get more information about any of the marketing options available to order.
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