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If you’ve been wanting to order some books for events or save more money by ordering in bulk for your direct sales efforts, now is the time to take advantage of our most popular promotion for published authors. Here’s how it works: 1. Login to your Publishing Center and place an order for 50 or more copies of your book(s) in a single format before May 31st.
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 “This was my first experience publishing a book, and I’ve learned a lot! Outskirts Press made the experience as painless a possible for me, and my author representative was great! The greatest lesson I learned was to edit, edit, edit BEFORE starting the process. That way, the publishing experience can be most efficient and there will be few, if any, surprises. Thanks, Outskirts Press!”Bill Taylor has been an ordained Primitive Baptist minister for twenty years, serving churches in Alabama and Tennessee as a pastor. This is his first published book, and it is the result of his having written and distributed daily meditations on various Bible subjects for many years. This is not a heavy theological commentary; instead, it is a practical approach to understanding God’s word and how it is still, “quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword.”- Bill Taylor, author of Men Of Like Passion
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Self Publishing News for April 15th
 Imagine publishing a fully-formatted, professionally-designedvolume of your poetry. Imagine simply “cutting’n'pasting” your poems into designated areas of an already-formatted document. Fast. Easy.Imagine, still, that elements like justification, centering, page spreads, margins, page numbering, graphical elements, and title drops were already taken care of!That’s how easy it is to publish with the Poetry Publishing Kit. Each kit comes with two files:Use the “Easy” file…
Or use the “Easier” file…
Both files are included in the Kit. Start with the “Easier” way and then as you become comfortable, move to the “Easy” file to add more poems for a second volume. Then when you’re ready to publish your book of poetry, you will have a beautiful, professionally-formatted manuscript to submit, as-is, for high-quality black/white printing. Both files are Microsoft Word 2003 files, so be sure that is a compatible format for your computer before purchasing the Publishing Kit. Important Delivery Details: Once you click the Add to Cart button and complete your purchase,
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Today you can save over $200 when you publish with the Diamond or full-color Pearl package and then add the iPad/iPhone Enhanced E-book edition to your services. Here’s what you get when you start publishing to the iBooks bookstore today with this exclusive offering from Outskirts Press: • Greater exposure for your book. The more outlets where your book is available for sale, the greater the chances that your book will be discovered by potential readers. • 100% profits. Apple will take 30% but you keep the remaining 70%. • Full control over your retail price. Frustrated with your hardcopy pricing? E-book pricing is more flexible. • Your own Private Label Imprint and Bowker-Approved ISBN. You become your own publisher with a unique ISBN and Publishing Imprint for your iPad/iPhone e-book edition. • Publishing freedom and independence. Your iPad e-book edition exists completely independently of any hardcopy versions of your book published with Outskirts Press. • Royalties are not split with Outskirts Press. Just like with our Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook e-book options, authors receive ALL the profit of their sales directly from the source (in this case, Apple). • You receive the final EPUB converted file. It’s yours to pursue other distribution channels independently of Outskirts Press. Are you ready to take advantage of this growing market? Choose your package below to get started right away. Don’t forget to enter the promotion code: iPad2012PP at checkout to take advantage of your 20% limited-time savings when you add your iPad/iPhone Enhanced edition to your package. Your consultant can help you do it. Promo code: iPad2012PP
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 “You gave me an outstanding book cover and interior, which I love so much. I also liked the pace at which my author representative worked. Thank you for a job well done!”Kathy-Ann Bamkefa lives with her family in California. She is married with two children and is an evangelist at their ministry, Worldwide Prophetic Evangelical Ministries. She has been writing poetry since 1999 in her leisure and also writes articles, which she posts to her blog monthly. She is multi-talented and loves to use her gifts and talents to encourage others. Kathy, has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology of Christian Counseling and Theology, and was born in Trinidad. This is her first published book.- Kathy-Ann Bamkefa, author of Inspirational Poems & Psalms Especially for You Collection I
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Top Reasons to Advertise Your Book in a National Magazine
Outskirts Press has announced the addition of low-cost, co-op advertising with Bookmarks Magazine to its full menu of author services.
Outskirts Press, an Inc. 5000 company and the fastest-growing self-publishing and book marketing firm, has long supported self-published authors with the tools they need to write, publish, publicize and distribute their works. The company now offers self-published authors low-cost advertising in Bookmarks Magazine, a subscription magazine targeted to lovers of literature.
Bookmarks provides its subscribers with synopses of a selection of the latest and greatest tomes in each full-color issue. Each ad page in Bookmarks spotlights several authors, who pay a fraction of the price of a full-page ad. The co-op approach provides authors a cost-effective way to showcase their work before a targeted audience.
Unlike newspaper, radio and traditional magazine marketing – which is expensive and reaches readers with a broad range of interests – Bookmarks ads exclusively reach individuals who are interested in literature and predisposed to purchasing.
There are several distinct advantages of co-op advertising through Bookmarks Magazine:
- Large-scale visibility. With a readership of 40,000 like-minded and affluent subscribers – a number that grows every day – Bookmarks Magazine reaches out to a huge audience of people already inclined to be interested in an author’s offerings..
- Targeted exposure. Bookmarks Magazine caters specifically to book buyers looking for the next great read. And, because readers actively subscribe to the magazine, ads reach a willing and receptive audience.
- Affordability. The Co-op Advertising Program provides authors with inexpensive access to high-profile ad space. Authors share a full-page ad that features 12 books, providing each author with highly visible advertising at a price that fits any marketing budget.
- Attractive, high-quality ad space. Book ads include a full-color book-cover image, synopsis, ISBN, retail price and ordering information – everything buyers need to make a decision and a speedy purchase.
Learn more about affordable, targeted advertising in Bookmarks Magazine and view full-color sample ads by visiting Outskirts Press at http://outskirtspress.com/p/bookmarkcoop.
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Celebrate National Poetry Month With a Free Poetry Publishing Kit
Join Outskirts Press in celebrating National Poetry Month this April and you could be one of 4 Facebook fans winning our new Poetry Publishing Kit (valued at $99).
Since 1996, publishers, readers, booksellers, libraries, organizations, and poets around the U.S. have come together to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture. Thousands of businesses and non-profit organizations participate through readings, festivals, book displays, workshops, and other events.
If you are a published poet, April is a good month to pursue active marketing tactics to take advantage. And if you’re not yet a published poet, our April giveaway is a good reason to “Like” Outskirts Press on Facebook!
Every Wednesday afternoon, a “Fan of the Week” is randomly selected from among all of our active Facebook friends at http://facebook.com/OutskirtsPress and publicly recognized on our wall and on a specific “Fan of the Week” page, accessible through our Apps menu at the top of the new Facebook Timeline format (more on that at a later date!).
Each Fan of the Week is randomly selected based upon participation on our page, (those who post comments, posts, or likes). Since a computer is making the random selection, statistically speaking you have a greater chance becoming a Fan of the Week if you participate more frequently on the Outskirts Press Facebook page.
And throughout April, every Fan of the Week that is chosen on Wednesday will receive a FREE Poetry Publishing Kit, which is available only through Outskirts Press. See all the details of this super convenient, super easy, super affordable way to create a custom interior for your poetry by clicking here.
And if you don’t win, or don’t plan on participating on Facebook in order to be in the running for “Fan of the Week” you can still get your hands on this incredible Poetry Publishing Kit by clicking the big green button.
This brand new, exclusive offering from Outskirts Press is now available for just $99. Just imagine… 100 MB of instant publishing help for poets seeking a fast, easy way to publish beautiful volumes of black/white poetry.
It’s just one of the ways we’re celebrating National Poetry Month, readers of poetry, and poets worldwide. Keep on rhyming, er… writing.
No Fools This April When You Save 20% on iPad E-Book Editions with Outskirts Press
iPad/iPhone revenues now account for more than half of all smart phone revenue in the United Statesand those figures are still growing. This is an expanding market audience for authors to promote their books to with their own private label iPad/iPhone electronic editions made available through Apple’s iBook bookstore.
“New technology is quickly changing the publishing industry,” said Outskirts Press Manager of Author Support Elise L. Connors. “Today more and more readers are curling up with their iPads, not their paperbacks, and this presents a vast audience for authors to tap into simply, quickly and profitably with our iPad/iPhone Premium Edition. Our April twenty percent discount on the package is really just the icing on the cake for this option for authors publishing with our Diamond or Pearl packages.”
The iPad/iPhone edition is ideal for all kinds of books because it offers a full color format, not just the black and white text of Kindle editions. Hard copy versions of full color books become more expensive the larger they are, but the length of a full color e-Book does not have to play a part in the pricing of it. A $9.99 cover price makes a far more attractive package for the reading public.
Black and white or full color, authors have full control over their retail price with this Outskirts Press option. Apple will take thirty percent and the author the remaining seventy percent, no matter the price the author sets. The profit from each book sale is then deposited into an author’s checking account by Apple with no involvement by or royalty to Outskirts Press. Not only are authors their own private label publishers, all their Apple e-Book sales are their e-Book sales.
Authors simply provide Outskirts Press with the retail price they’ve chosen and the necessary royalty payment information and Outskirts Press takes care of all the rest. They register a private label imprint ISBN number with R. R. Bowker, they create an e-pub format for the book and submit it to Apple through an iTunes Connect account and then provide the author with the final e-pub converted file.
The best news of all is how easy it is. “In the beginning I looked at working directly with Apple on this project. After reviewing everything that was involved, time and money, it was clear that I was way ahead, once again, letting the experts handle it all for m,” said Outskirts Press author David Koop, author of Cancer It’s a Good Thing I Got It.
To take advantage of this discounted April promotion with the Diamond and Pearl packages, go to http://outskirtspress.com/p/ipad and use the promotion code iPad2012pp to receive your twenty percent discount.
Save 20% on your iPad e-book edition
The “New” 4G iPad (iPad 3) went on sale recently and Apple announced that it had a “record weekend” in terms of units sold. What does that mean? Well, it is estimated that the original iPad sold about 300,000 units over its opening weekend, and over one million in the first month. Then, when the iPad 2 was unveiled, business analysts estimated that Apple sold one million iPad 2s on its launch weekend.
So for Apple to have a “record weekend” for the iPad 3, that means even more than one million new units were sold in its first weekend. Though we may never know specific numbers, sales of the new iPad were high enough for Apple to announce a first-ever stock dividend for investors.
Imagine leveraging all that press, all those iPads units, and all those readers into more readers for YOUR book…
Now you can when you combine a top-of-the-line publishing package from Outskirts Press with their exclusive Enhanced iPad/iPhone Premium E-book Edition.
And you’ll save over $200 off the iPad Edition a la carte price when you start publishing today with our Diamond or Full-Color Pearl service with the promotion code: iPad2012PP
(Already published with Outskirts Press? You can save 20% on your iPad edition, too. Just click here.)
If you’ve been on the fence about starting (or completing) your e-Book offerings, now is the time to take action while publishing a high-quality paperback or hardback edition at the same time.
Today you can save over $200 when you publish with the Diamond or full-color Pearl package and then add the iPad/iPhone Enhanced E-book edition to your services.
Here’s what you get when you start publishing to the iBooks bookstore today with this exclusive offering from Outskirts Press:
• Greater exposure for your book. The more outlets where your book is available for sale, the greater the chances that your book will be discovered by potential readers.
• 100% profits. Apple will take 30% but you keep the remaining 70%.
• Full control over your retail price. Frustrated with your hardcopy pricing? E-book pricing is more flexible.
• Your own Private Label Imprint and Bowker-Approved ISBN. You become your own publisher with a unique ISBN and Publishing Imprint for your iPad/iPhone e-book edition.
• Publishing freedom and independence. Your iPad e-book edition exists completely independently of any hardcopy versions of your book published with Outskirts Press.
• Royalties are not split with Outskirts Press. Just like with our Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook book options, authors receive ALL the profit of their sales directly from the source (in this case, Apple).
• You receive the final EPUB converted file. It’s yours to pursue other distribution channels independently of Outskirts Press.
Top 10 Book Marketing Options for February 2012
Outskirts Press is an industry leader in providing post-publication support, products, and services to its growing family of published authors. Because we know how confusing it can be to pick the right marketing solution for your book, we publish our list of Top 10 Book Marketing Options each month to help you prioritize your book marketing efforts.
The top-ranking options are determined by how many self-published authors sign up for them. 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 available book marketing options.
These are the marketing products and services determined to be most popular by our authors for February 2012 — listed below in alphabetical order:
 Amazon-branded featured book-of-the-week This option helps you to get your book featured in an email sent directly to over 6,000 of our published writers. The book is also featured exclusively in a posting on our Outskirts Press blog as the featured Book-of-the-Week with an call-to-action Amazon order page. |
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 Amazon Extreme Package This is a package deal that lets you save 25% on three 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. This is the new way that people are buying books. However, 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 This service allows your potential buyer to browse your book online just as they would in a “traditional” bookstore. This alleviates a lot of the the anxiety associated with purchasing books online. |
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 Author Platform Set-up Through Social Media New authors have to establish a solid platform for marketing their book. One of the biggest growing markets: social media for writers. Why? Because social media can sell books. It’s been proven. The key is – you have to know how to get in touch with the people who will buy from you and talk to them! Not sure where to start? The Author Platform Set-up Option can help. |
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 Barnes & Noble NOOK Edition This option will allow you to join 2 MILLION other books at Barnes & Noble NOOK store, showcasing your books in an untapped, and growing market of readers. |
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 Barnes & Noble See Inside This option will allow you to turn Barnes&Noble browsers into buyers by allowing online shoppers to view select pages of your book digitally from the BN.com website. |
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 Book Blast This package includes five of our most popular (and most effective) marketing services, making for very well-rounded book marketing solution. Every Book Blast comes with: a Custom Press Release, PR Publicist Campaign, Book Review Submission Service, Book Video Trailer, and 5 hours with a Personal Marketing Assistant for one price. |
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 Book Review Submission Service Securing positive book reviews is the first step toward building word-of-mouth buzz for your book. Don’t have the time to send your own? We can help take care of all of the “grunt” work for you. |
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 Personal Marketing Assistant With this option, you can get help on developing a marketing plan, establishing your author platform, book signings as well as assistance with marketing campaigns lead follow-up. |
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Self-Publishing Authors Blast Their Books Into Reader’s Hands with Popular Book Blast Package
You’ve written and published a book. Believe it or not, that’s only a portion of what’s required to be a successful self-published author. We affectionately call this the 80/20 principle of successful authorship. Approximately 20% of an author’s time working with/on their book is spent writing. The other 80% is spent on marketing activities. How do you know which marketing strategies to pursue? Well, we’ve made it much easier for you. We’ve hand-selected and bundled our most popular (and effective) marketing options under one umbrella. Meet our Book Blast Package.
The Book Blast package contains everything that a new (or seasoned) self-published author needs to get on their way to an effective marketing campaign: press coverage, video marketing, book reviews, and one-on-one coaching with a professional book marketing assistant.
Here’s more on everything that’s included:
1. Custom Press Release
The Custom Press Release combines information solicited from the author with the expertise of our writers. The result — a professional release that is focused on showcasing your book.
Your Custom Press Release will be:
- electronically distributed to a database of approximately 100,000 media contacts, newsrooms, industry analysts, and freelance writers who receive daily email listings of press releases which match their filter criteria
- posted to syndicated news feeds on other web sites through our XML/RSS news feed
- optimized for search engine placement
2. PR Publicist Campaign
With the PR Publicist Campaign, a publicist will further distribute your Custom Press Release. We will e-mail it directly to book reviewers and editors in print, radio, television, trades, E-zines, syndicates, and wires — locally, regionally, and nationwide. This additional distribution circuit consists of over 21,000 national media contacts.
Then, we send you every resulting media lead. Usually those leads will come in the form of a book review or interview request. You will also receive a sample cover letter to use when following up on each lead.
3. 60 Second Book Video Trailer and Digital Viral Distribution
Movie trailers (commonly called “previews”) are shown at the beginning of movies. They let you take a sneak peek into an upcoming film. What if you could promote your book the same way? Well, you can. Our Book Video Trailers allow you to engage your audience’s eyes AND ears. Each trailer includes:
- Music — you provide your own or we choose a piece from our collection.
- Text — we briefly describe your book
- Images — you provide your own or we choose from our database of over 1 million images
- Distribution — YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
BONUS: Your video will also be embedded into your Outskirts Press author webpage for you.
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4. Book Review Submission
We have identified 10 book reviewers who have all demonstrated a tendency to review alternatively-published and self-published books. When you purchase our Book Review Submission Service, we will submit your book to these reviewers (or 10 others of your choosing) for you. Included in the submission to these reviewers is everything they typically require to consider writing a review, such as:
- a professional cover letter
- a professional press release
- your sales sheet
- a complimentary copy of your book for the reviewer to consider and keep
Positive reviews on popular websites and blogs or within popular journals can improve sales and lead to positive word-of-mouth, which is a precursor to the viral publicity and “buzz” that all authors dream of.
5. Personal Marketing Assistant
What’s a busy author to do to stay on top of follow-up that may result from a viral video, an amazing review, and/or a potential flurry of interview requests from a publicist campaign? Sit back and relax while their Personal Marketing Assistant follows through on these things for them.
Upon purchase, you will receive a 5 hour block of one-on-one assistance. That block includes an initial 30 minute phone consultation. Here are just some of the many things your Personal Marketing Assistant can help you with:
- PR Publicist Campaign lead follow-up
- Suggesting advertising venues for your book and placing ads for you
- Calling bookstores in your area to pitch your book and/or arrange book signings
- Other book marketing tasks as needed
Are you ready to blast your book into the hands of readers?
Self-Publishing a Full-Color Book for Children Just Got Easier
Outskirts Press, the fastest growing self-publishing and book marketing company, announced today its new “One-Click” publishing package for authors of children’s books. The publisher has created a simple one-click package that offers a cornucopia of production, distribution and marketing services for one affordable price, based upon the services that have proven to be the most popular and successful for children’s book authors.
“Our new, all-inclusive One-Click package is a smooth, stress free way for children’s book authors to avoid unnecessary problems and to simply publish the book of their dreams,” said Outskirts Press Vice President, Kelly Schuknecht. “It’s never been faster, more convenient, or more affordable to publish a full-color, fully illustrated children’s book.”
The One-Click Children’s book package from Outskirts Press includes fifteen full-color, custom illustrations as well as a full-color custom cover for both a perfect bound paperback and laminated case bound format. Professional cover scribing and copyediting for up to 15,000 words are also part of the One-Click package.
During and after production, Outskirts Press handles the myriad essential details that need to be taken care of to assure widespread, competent distribution. For instance, Outskirts Press handles the official copyright registration, the assignment of a Library of Congress number, the book’s barcode and the tagging of a Private Label ISBN that can either be Outskirts Press’ or the author’s own imprint.
The publisher secures unlimited worldwide distribution-on-demand through Ingram to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powells, Books-a-Million and literally thousands of other book outlets. When applicable, Spring Arbor Christian distribution of the book is also available as part of the package.
The final components of this extensive publishing package are the marketing and promotional services that place the book brightly in the public eye.
In addition to the standard publication press releases which are sent out, the publisher commissions a custom press release for each One-Click book and this custom release is distributed to hundreds more media outlets with professional PR phone-call follow-up. A professional quality, 60 second book promotion video is also created and distributed to popular internet viewing channels such as YouTube and the book is given “face out” exposure at the renowned Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Finally, five hours of personal one-on-one marketing assistance are provided, in addition to the Marketing COACH tips the One-Click author will receive via email for two years after publication.
Everything that every children’s book author has ever wished for has suddenly come true with this remarkable and surprisingly affordable package that is available as of today through Outskirts Press. Authors ready to begin publishing their own Children’s book can get started now at www.outskirtspress.com/p/children.
Self-Publishing Authors Can Market Themselves Using Custom Article Writing
One of the proven ways to market yourself and your book on the Internet is to write and distribute related articles that demonstarte your expertise in your subject matter. Even if your article does not blatantly promote your book, your “About the Author” byline section does, including a link to your webpage. This is also good for Search Engine Optimization for your webpage.
If you’re having a hard time making time to write articles to promote you and your book (you are a busy author after all), Outskirts Press can help. Count on one of our professional ghostwriters to compose your article on your behalf. This option is for one article but the more different articles you “write” the most recognized you will become, so you can order this option multiple times if you want.
- You choose the topic
- We write the article
- You review/edit and approve it
- We distribute it for you
It doesn’t get any easier than that!
What type of article might you want?
It depends upon what type of book you have written (after all, you want it to be related). Here are some possibilities:
- A romance novelist may select an article topic such as “Top Ten Relationship Exercises for Couples”
- A children’s book author may suggest an article written about “How to Be a Nurturing Parent”
- A bestselling author of a number of books might choose “5 Steps to Self Publishing Success”
You choose the topic, provide any background information you have available, and we’ll write the 700-1000 word article for you.
Then we distribute it throughout the Internet where bloggers, RSS feeds, XML feeds, article archives, forums, and other websites can “pick it up” for distribution.
Many article websites provide “RSS feeds” for webmasters, bloggers, and newsletter publishers who are looking for content on specific topics. Your article will be blasted to these channels and you may start to see your Expert Article appearing all around the Internet.
We’ll even show you how to see up an electronic “clipping service” so you will get notified by email when your Expert Article is published.
Here’s an example of where “5 Steps to Self Publishing Success” by best-selling author Gang Chen was republished, exposing Gang’s book to all the readers of this website.
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