Tips on Maximising Ebook Sales

[Paul Whybrow]

I recently read Noah Lukeman's 'The First Five Pages - A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile.' It's an excellent primer on the importance of getting the first five pages right, though he actually reckons that most agents (and readers) make judgements on whether to continue reading from the first five sentences!

In looking for advice on marketing ebooks, I came across a couple of interviews with him, in which he offers some good advice on self-publishing. What he has to say about serialising ebooks, and running promotions by giving books away for free is typical of his fresh and experimental approach to marketing.

http://askaliteraryagent.blogspot.co.uk/

http://insights.bookbub.com/noah-lukeman-interview/

I'll be looking at BookBub more, as at present I only distribute my ebooks via Smashwords, as well as selling them there and on Amazon.

Have any of the Colonists used BookBub, and what do you make of Noah Lukeman's ideas about splitting a long novel into sections, giving at least the first book away for free?

 

[Bernard Stacey]

The facility on Kindle to download a sample for free to decide if you want the whole book is very useful and one I use a lot. I guess that's pretty much what you're talking about?
The samples usually contain enough to allow a reasonably well informed decision about quality/likeability, etc to be made.