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How to promote a book easy dan free without FB & Twitter? is there any easy site?
03-24-2014, 10:28 AM
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How to promote a book easy dan free without FB & Twitter? is there any easy site?
you know, if someone want to promote their book, usually find agent to get publisher.
but this one is self-publishing. I want to get a stranger reader for my book, is there any special site?
I don't want promote via Facebook, Twitter, maybe youtube okay, but how to get many reader?

hehe, this sound classic but could you give me a tips?
please answer nicely, don't do discriminate....

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03-24-2014, 10:29 AM
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Bear, promoting a self-published book is difficult even if you do use Facebook and Twitter. People don't go to those sites to see your ads and many will block you. But in the end, that's okay, because promoting there tends to result in no increase in sales.

Many of the avenues open to traditionally published authors are not available to the self-published. Chain bookstores won't host signings or carry copies (although they will order them for customers). Newspapers, magazines, TV, and radio don't want your press releases and won't do interviews. The library system won't accept free copies. Writing- or book-related conventions won’t let you set up a sales or autograph table, don’t want you on their author panels, and forbid you giving away promotional material.

About the only marketing I've seen have any effect for self-published authors is a blog tour--you interview authors in the same genre on your own blog in exchange for the same--and active participation at forums and chats dealing with the subject of your book. Find your niche market and determine where online they hang out. Some sites may allow you to discuss your book *if someone asks about it* (but will ban you for bringing it up more than once). Some may allow a link to a point of sale in your profile, or to your blog or web-page which in turn links to a point of sale.

You'll sell a few more copies than you might have, but overall, like most self-published books, regardless of quality, total sales will probably remain below 100 copies. More often, the number hovers somewhere around 2/3 to 3/4 of your total number of friends and family members. This compares pretty unfavorably to the thousands of copies a moderately-selling book from a conventional publisher can anticipate.

I do hope your book is written in more conventional English than your question. If it isn't, I would have it professionally edited before making it available to buy.

I’m sorry not to be able to offer much real hope for promotion, but I figured you’d rather hear the truth than sugar-coated lies which might cause you to waste your time or money.

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