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04 Sunday Mar 2012

Posted by A. J. Braithwaite in ereading, Marketing, Websites

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It’s Read an Ebook Week over at Smashwords from 4-10 March. Many books have been reduced in price as part of this promotion, including The Viking and the Vendetta, which is half price for the week, using the coupon REW50 at checkout.

Amazon update

05 Thursday May 2011

Posted by A. J. Braithwaite in Indie writing, Marketing, Websites

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For the first time, I put a few posts on the Amazon Kindle forums to promote The Roman and the Runaway in the last week. Maybe four, in different, appropriate-seeming places (‘Kindle books for 99 cents’, that kind of thing). I’ve got a (probably very British) horror of self-promotion and certainly don’t want to put people’s backs up with anything that smacks of desperation or (even worse) spam.

I also joined a few of the ‘you tag me and I’ll tag you’ forums – one on Amazon itself and the others on the Kindleboards site. With these, you add Amazon tags to other authors’ books in return for them tagging yours with your preferred categories. So for my book, for the US site, those are:

young adult, contemporary fiction, fathers and sons, boarding school, runaways, family relationships, kindle, 99 cents

Some people put a huge amount of time into tagging other books with these tags and getting more on their own in return. I’m not sure how much of a difference the tags make, but I have sold one book on Amazon.com and my first ever* on Amazon.co.uk since doing this small quantity of self-promotion last weekend, so perhaps it does have an effect!

I still don’t think I’m going to dedicate my life to it, though…


*Woohoo!

Free ebook

The Roman and the Runaway

Ebook: $2.99

The Viking and the Vendetta

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