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Q&A: Should I market my book on MySpace or a blog?
QUESTION: I’ve written a book about music, and I want to start promoting it on the Internet. The amount of time I can spend is limited. Where should I focus my effort — writing a blog, or promoting my book on MySpace? ANSWER: There’s no reason you can’t promote your book on MySpace and your [...]
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Book tagging lags at Amazon; soars at LibraryThing
They’ve crunched some numbers at LibraryThing, and with much smaller user base, the social-networking site has accumulated ten times as many book tags as Amazon. The score: LibraryThing, 13 millionAmazon, 1.3 million What’s the problem with tagging at Amazon? It’s simple, says LibraryThing found Tim Spalding: E-commerce and tagging don’t mix. “You can’t get your [...]
How to become a LibraryThing author
LibraryThing is the leading social-networking site for bibliophiles, and it offers authors an opportunity to enhance their profile. You can build a special author page on LibraryThing to show members what’s in your personal book collection. To become a LibraryThing author, you need to be a member who has at least one book listed on [...]
Tips for using MySpace to plug your book
Many up-and-coming authors are using MySpace to promote their books. Here are several rules of thumb for using MySpace as a publicity tool: Try to keep your MySpace pages streamlined and clutter-free. Make sure that anyone who sees it can easily discover your book and, if interested, buy it quickly. Put “buy this book” links [...]
Q&A: How can I change my Top 8 MySpace friends?
QUESTION: I’ve noticed that some author pages on MySpace have a a long list of featured friends, while most have only eight. How can I change my Top 8 on MySpace? ANSWER: Under each member’s “About Me” section are pictures of eight friends, then a link to all the other friends of that member. By [...]
Finding host blogs for your author blog tour
A blog tour is a great way to generate word of mouth for your book. The first step is to comb the Web for blogs where you’d like to appear. Once you’ve identified a list of relevant, potential blog hosts, prioritize your list by three main criteria: activity level, reader involvement and traffic volume. Activity [...]
Media Library: Amazon's social-networking answer to LibraryThing?
Amazon users can tag books within a personalized section of the site called Your Media Library. Here you can view all your previous purchases and buy online access to eligible hard-copy books you’ve already bought from Amazon. You can organize your Media Library by tagging individual books this way: – Click on the book to [...]
Tagging: A new way of organizing and marketing books
A growing number of book lovers are using tags to provide their own way of classifying books. Amazon and some library online catalogs now allow users to use tags as a supplement to the hierarchical category system. Book tagging allows people to assign trendy, granular labels to books -— nuances beyond the world’s hippest, brainiest [...]
How authors can network on MySpace
MySpace is a great way for authors and publishers to network. There are several ways to find people on MySpace who might be in your target audience: by searching for murder mysteries, historical romance, self-improvement, organic food, or whatever niche you’re writing in or wherever else your interests lie. Perhaps there’s a famous writer whose [...]
Plugging your book into social-networking sites