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Amazon Search Inside Update for Self-Publishing Authors
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According to Amazon two out of every three books sold on Amazon.com are now enrolled in the Search Inside the Book program and books in the program outsell books not in the program. Does your book have the Search Inside feature yet?
Important Update: As of October 1, 2009, Amazon only accepts PDFs for new book submissions. They no longer accept hard copy submissions as they used to. Fortunately, Outskirts Press offers a submission service for the Search Inside the Book program which includes creating the file in the format required by Amazon and submitting it to Amazon. Outskirts Press authors can order this service conveniently from within their Author’s Center: www.outskirtspress.com/authorcenter20.php. |
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Add comment October 5, 2009
Self Publishing Version 3.0 – Part 2
This previous blog posting provided some details about the new features and benefits of Outskirts Press 3.0 and this one discusses the benefits that come from publishing with Outskirts Press AFTER the book is published — marketing is an important piece, too!
Today let’s look deeper at what information and assistance the author will receive when he or she clicks on a particular product, service, or feature listed in the new 3.0 online shopping experience. Let’s say, for example, the author was interested in the Amazon Extreme Marketing Package. With a simple click of the button, the author would receive the following information:
 Amazon Extreme Package3 Amazon services for 1 discounted price
Save 25% off a la carte pricing
Press PLAY to watch the introductory video, or scroll down to get more details about all the marketing services/products included with this Package…
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Amazon Kindle EditionThe 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. Kindle editions of books appear on Amazon and in Amazon search listings just like any other format (such as a hardback edition).There are several benefits to having your book available on Amazon Kindle:
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Amazon Search Inside the Book SubmissionAmazon’s “online equivalent” to browsing a bookstore. Books that participate in the optional “Search Inside” program through Outskirts Press feature a “Look Inside” icon over their Amazon cover image, which invites potential customers to electronically “flip” through a small section of the book. Amazon claims that books participating in this program enjoy “significant” sales improvement, on average, over books that do not. Equally important is the affect this participation has on your Amazon search results. More data about your book’s content is stored by Amazon’s computers, potentially resulting in more accurate and targeted search results and recommendations. |
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Amazon Keyword Search SubmissionCustomers who browse for new books on Amazon usually do not search by title or author. They search by keywords or phrases (subject-specific words that describe their interest). One goal in book marketing is to do whatever is possible to improve a book’s search results ranking on Amazon.com for applicable keywords. The Amazon Keyword Submission option through Outskirts Press can help. Participating books are “tagged” with applicable terms and keywords on Amazon’s Product Detail page. Then 10 specific keywords or phrases are submitted to Amazon’s Search Engine on the author’s behalf. |
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Plus a FREE Paperback - Sell Your Book on AmazonSo You’d Like to… Become An Amazon Bestseller! Don’t wait. Publishing insider and CEO Brent Sampson reveals revolutionary advice guaranteed to increase your book sales on Amazon. Learn the powerful secrets used by successful Amazon authors every day. This informative and practical “how-to” guide shares new techniques that are proven to work.
Are you holding a manuscript in your hand that you wish Amazon was selling? Or do you already have a book on Amazon that you wish was selling better? In either case, Sell Your Book on Amazon will help you. You will experience what Brent Sampson has seen first-hand as the president of Outskirts Press – that marketing success on Amazon can be the difference between hundreds and tens-of-thousands of dollars a month in author royalties. You will learn why self-publishing guru Dan Poynter says, “Bookstores are a lousy place to sell books.” Amazon provides a phenomenal and gigantic (global) platform from which to sell your book. In fact, the opportunities may seem almost too colossal! But now, Sell Your Book on Amazon unveils it all for the first time. This book provides an easy-to-understand approach to increase your book sales on Amazon by exploring the steps you can take immediately. |
The New Outskirts Press 3.0 website is the result of a lot of work and effort of a lot of people, and we particularly want to thank our authors who are always happy to provide suggestions and thoughts on how we can continue to improve. No wonder Outskirts Press is the fastest-growing full-service self-publishing and book marketing company. We have the best authors in the world! We hope you enjoy the new Version 3.0 website.
Want to see more benefits of Publishing with Outskirts Press? Marketing your book after publication is an easy thing to forget about when your book isn’t even published yet, but it is equally important and Outskirts Press leads the way with valuable marketing products and services. Check out our video here.
And if you haven’t experienced the custom difference with Outskirts Press, now is the time to start…
Add comment September 25, 2009
Self Publishing Your Way to Amazon’s Bestseller List
This whole week has been filled with exciting author success stories, like Wednesday’s story about 8-year-old Dalton James, who wrote, illustrated, and published two children’s books and now speaks to fellow elementary school students about how they can do the same…
… or Tuesday’s story about Gang Chen, who’s book held the #1 Amazon bestseller spot in two different categories and how he has earned over $100,000 in six months self-publishing with Outskirts Press…
… or yesterday’s story about Mary Singer Wick and her climb to #1 on Amazon.
How do these success stories happen? What leads to an Amazon bestseller?
There’s no doubt it takes some effort, and there are a variety of ways to accomplish your own personal goals. But what remains consistent is that, without the proper know-how, it can certainly be challenging.
Such were the challenges bestselling author Sally Shields faced when her book The Daughter-in-Law Rules was published last year. Since then, Ms. Shields…
- Has been a guest on over 100 radio shows
- Became a guest on Martha Stewart Whole Living Radio
- Was endorsed by Laura Schelssinger
- Was featured in Star Magazine’s Hot Sheet
- Was featured on Fox and Friends
- Has been a repeat guest on the nationally syndicated Television show, The Daily Buzz
- And, of course, her book The Daughter-in-Law Rules also became a #1 bestseller on Amazon.
Sally Shields now helps other authors reach Amazon’s bestseller list. She can help you, too.
As a bestselling author and book marketing expert, Sally offers a program that trains, educates, and mentors authors on how they can reach Amazon’s bestseller list for their book(s), too. She does this independently of Outskirts Press and Outskirts Press is not involved in her program or training materials in any way.
Here’s what Outskirts Press and Amazon bestselling author Mary Singer Wick has to say about Sally’s information: “Sally’s information has been a God-send to me! She has simplified the complicated world of book publishing and marketing. Sally’s hands-on approach provided me all the help I needed to successfully launch my book on Amazon. I highly recommend learning from Sally how you can become a bestselling author too!”
For a limited time, Sally Shields is offering fellow Outskirts Press authors a 60% discount on her Program. To learn more about her program and this exciting promotion, click here now.
The very first step toward becoming an Amazon bestselling author is publishing a book. Have an unpublished manuscript? Visit Outskirts Press first.
Add comment May 15, 2009
Self Publishing Book Marketing – Amazon Extreme
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Introducing the Amazon Extreme Package, available exclusively for select
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When an Outskirts Press author earns $10,000, $20,000, and yes, even $30,000 per month in royalties, it catches our attention! We investigate what they are doing so we can share that success with our other authors. In almost all cases, our highest-earning authors are making a lot of their profit from Amazon.com book sales. So we have combined three of our popular and effective Amazon marketing services into one package with a 25% savings. Plus you will receive a free copy of our CEO’s bestselling book Sell Your Book on Amazon.1. Add an Amazon Kindle/Kindle 2 edition In order to demonstrate the benefits of the Amazon Kindle Edition submission service, you must first know what the Amazon Kindle is. 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. Kindle editions of books appear on Amazon and in Amazon search listings just like any other format (such as a hardback edition).There are several benefits to having your book available on Amazon Kindle.
1. The Amazon Kindle edition will appear in the Amazon search results, along with any other formats of your book (such as your paperback and/or hardback editions). This results in an increase of exposure for your book’s cover, which increases the chances of browsers clicking on your cover image and coming that much closer to becoming a buyer. (See image, right) 2. Sales through the Amazon Kindle are not split with Outskirts Press. Amazon will take their share, as they always do, but your profit will be directly deposited into your checking account by Amazon, without any involvement by (or portion for) Outskirts Press. In other words, your Kindle sales are YOUR Kindle sales. 3. Amazon customers and readers are growing every day. While the Kindle is a unique and revolutionary device designed to make reading more convenient, the majority of Amazon customers love actual BOOKS. A Kindle sale is an inexpensive way to offer your book to a potential reader in a format a growing number of readers prefer; if they like it, they may even be more likely to purchase the paperback or hardback edition, too.
2. Add your book to Amazon Search Inside the Book
In 2001, Amazon.com started offering their Look Inside the Book program, allowing consumers to view the inside cover, table of contents, back cover, and even a select few pages from inside the book. Search Inside the Book is the new and improved version, where consumers can “take a peek inside” a book and preview certain pages before they buy it. When a book participates in this optional Amazon program, browsers can even use a keyword search tool that allows them to conduct additional searches within the book, which helps them confirm that the title is what they are looking for. When customers search for books on Amazon.com, actual words and phrases from the books—not just the author and the title—are engaged to return the best possible matches. With this powerful new feature, customers can find books that may never have surfaced in previous search results. It also widens the circle of readers for a particular book. But this additional advantage and the improved search results rankings that result, is only available for books participating in Amazon’s Search Inside program. For this and other reasons, adding the Search Inside the Book option can help improve sales for many books that might otherwise languish on Amazon’s virtual shelves. 3. Add tags and your top 10 keywords to Amazon’s search engine The optional Amazon Keyword Search Submission service can help your book appear higher in the Amazon search rankings for applicable keywords. Customers who browse for new books on Amazon typically do not search by title or author. They search by keywords or phrases: subject-specific words that describe their interest. One goal in book marketing is to do whatever is possible to improve a book’s search results ranking for applicable keywords so that your book appears higher in the search results on Amazon.The Amazon Keyword Submission option can help. Participating books are “tagged” with applicable terms and keywords, and then 10 specific keywords or phrases are submitted to Amazon’s Search Engine on the author’s behalf, along with the necessary justification for that keyword. Amazon ultimately holds discretion for what keywords are accepted or denied, but experience has shown us that books with submitted, applicable, and popular search-terms perform better in terms of search results (and ultimately sales), on average, than those books that haven’t added additional search terms.
FREE BONUS:
Among the tactics and steps suggested in the book are: participating in the Search Inside Program and adding keyword search submissions. You will notice that both of these steps are already included with this purchase of the Amazon Extreme Marketing package. But there is so much more, like Listmania, Amazon Guides, Amapedia, Amazon Blogs, AmazonConnect, and much more. If you are not already proficient in Amazon listing enhancement, this book is a must-buy. And it’s free with the Amazon Extreme package. |
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Studies show that a good number of consumers shop for reading material on the Internet. However, many may not purchase online because it’s hard to browse through books when you can’t physically flip through them and take a closer look. Amazon’s Search Inside the Book program promises to change these statistics.
Receive a free paperback copy of SELL YOUR BOOK ON AMAZON, Outskirts Press CEO Brent Sampson’s bestselling book, featuring top-secret tips guaranteed to increase your Amazon sales. The steps and tactics outlined in this book are the very same marketing efforts Sampson follows for his own book.Ready to start self-publishing?
1 comment May 5, 2009
Survivor contestant “Coach” subject of new self-published book
Love him or hate him, there’s no doubt that “Coach” (aka Benjamin Wade) on this season’s edition of Survivor is a colorful character. And now he is the subject of a new novel published by author Tom Gauthier through Outskirts Press.
Book Description:
A Voyage Beyond Reason is a true-life adventure. In 1996, twenty-four year-old Benjamin Wade sets out on a solo voyage in a tiny sea kayak. His goal lies 6,000 miles away – and deep within his own soul.
The chance discovery of his journals, buried on a Colombian cliff above the sea, uncovers a mystery which took many years to finally solve. His journals tell of misery and elation, of triumph and failure, of insight and insanity.
Does the man make the journey, or does the journey make the man?
Follow the tiny kayak, and follow the mind of a young man set on a goal that no amount of torture can dissuade him from reaching, on a journey that brings him face to face with himself.
For more information, or to purchase, visit the author’s webpage: www.outskirtpress.com/TomGautherVoyage
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Add comment April 29, 2009
