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Q&A: How can I blog about my book on Amazon.com?
QUESTION: How can I contact Amazon to get permission to post an author’s blog on my book’s product page? Can I control which of my books the blog posts will appear? ANSWER: It’s fairly easy to enroll in Amazon’s blogging program, Amazon Connect, but it might take a couple of weeks before you’re ready to [...]
Turning your blog into a book
Many blog writers turn their posts into a full-fledged book. Chris Anderson posted much of the content for his business bestseller The Long Tail on his blog by the same name. There’s even a word for it, blook, which means a bound book originally published serially on a blog, such as Julia Powell’s Julie & [...]
Plug your book with a blog tour
If you haven’t yet discovered Tom Masters’ Future Perfect Publishing blog, you should pay a visit. It’s a new blog, but Tom has already managed to come up with some great material. He’s a Web marketing consultant and president of the Book Publishers Northwest, the regional affiliate of Publishers Marketing Association. // Tom interviewed me [...]
2007 Blooker prize winners announced
Lulu announced the winners of its second annual Blooker Prize. Each entrant was originally written serially on a blog and later repackaged as a book. My War: Killing Time in Iraq, by Colby Buzzell, has topped 110 entries from 15 countries to win the 2007 Lulu Blooker Prize. It is the frank account of post-invasion [...]
Amazon buries author content with avalanche of advertising
After a year of experimentation, Amazon.com has killed the “Plogs” that featured author blog posts directly on its home page. In its place is Amazon Daily, which buries author-generated content under an avalanche of marketing blurbs written by Amazon employees. Amazon launched the Plogs feature with great fanfare in February 2006. Its mission was enabling [...]
Amazon yanks author 'Connect' blogs and some customer reviews
On Saturday Amazon.com deleted the Amazon Connect blogs that authors use to post commentary on the product pages of their books, and the company posted a cryptic message that the program was undergoing “changes.” UPDATE: I’ve been informed that Amazon notified some publishers via e-mail last week that Connect would be upgraded and restored by [...]
BlogBurst could provide breakthrough for book bloggers
Thousands of book authors have already discovered the publicity power of content syndication through article-submission sites such as EzineArtlices.com. This week a new model for content syndication debuts, and could revolutionize the way blogs and author Web sites are exposed to the broader public. BlogBurst went live on May 2, and you can see some [...]
'Amazon Connect' allows authors to post directly to readers
Authors can now post messages about their book on its product page at Amazon.com and even host a blog on Amazon’s site. Signing up for Amazon Connect also enables authors to post a bibliography on their Amazon profile page. Messages show up on the book’s detail page and the author’s profile page. This is a [...]
Amazon warns authors it may censor blogs