how to promote a kindle book on goodreads
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Let's look at how to promote a Kindle book through the Goodreads Author Program.TRANSCRIPT
HOW TO PROMOTE A KINDLE BOOK
ON GOODREADS
WHAT IS GOODREADS
It is a social cataloging website
It permits individuals to sign up and register books to create their library catalogs and reading lists.
It also allows users to create their own groups of book suggestions and discussions.
IN THIS PRESENTATION, WE WILL LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT
WAYS ON HOW TO PROMOTE A KINDLE BOOK THROUGH
THE GOODREADS AUTHOR PROGRAM.
PIMP YOUR PROFILE
Add a photo to your profile
Add information about yourself
LINK YOUR BLOG
Your posts will automatically appear on goodreads.
Your followers will be notified of your posts
There will be tons of exposure for your books
PROMOTING A KINDLE BOOK WITH
FRIENDS AND FANS
Goodreads has a friends system that
works a lot like the friends systems on
other sites
Join a Goodreads Group
Join discussions.
Leave a comment.
IT'S GOOD TO HAVE FRIENDS BUT IT'S EVEN
BETTER TO HAVE FANS
Fans are best for the ego
Set up a Q&A Group for
discussion and invite
your fans or friends.
Goodreads members
love to chat with authors
YOU CAN ALSO SEND MESSAGES TO YOUR FRIENDS
AND FANS
Be sparing with this to
avoid being seen as a
spammer.
Only send messages
when there is a major
event like giveaway or
publication of a new title.
PROMOTING A KINDLE BOOK WITH PAID
ADVERTISING ON GOODREADS
Goodreads offers pay-per-click contextual ads.
Select demographic and genre so that your
ads are shown to the right people.
Upload a free chapter so they can preview
your book directly from the ad.
PROMOTING A KINDLE BOOK WITH
GOODREADS GIVEAWAYS
Offer a physical copy of your book. Don’t
worry because you only have to give away one
copy.
Consider joining the Goodreads advertising
program to advertise your giveaway.
RESPONDING TO NEGATIVE REVIEWS
NEVER post a comment
or contact the reviewer
through the message
system.
By commenting, you are
pushing bad review up
into a more prominent
position.
Bad reviews can be
useful feedback that
you can learn from
the next time that
you write a book.
REMEMBER: Every
author has some bad
reviews.
RESPONDING TO POSITIVE REVIEWS
Click the button to like
them.
Or you can just leave
a comment thanking
that person.
Either one of these
actions will help the
positive review up
toward the top of the
list.