Sunday, February 09, 2025

Simple Ways to Market Your Audiobook



The audiobook industry has experienced remarkable growth over the past decade, evolving into a multi-billion-dollar sector that caters to a diverse audience of readers, listeners, and learners. As we look toward 2025, the audiobook market is poised to reach new heights, fueled by technological advancements, changing consumer preferences, and the continuous expansion of content libraries.


Along with ebooks, audio books are an ever-growing market ripe for authors everywhere to tap into.  The popularity of audiobooks has grown so much that it's now a multi-billion dollar sector, with Audio Publishers Association's proprietary annual consumer survey (reporting from 3rd June 2024) that audiobook revenue in the US grew by 9% in 2023, bringing the total for the US market to $2 billion.

Sunday, February 02, 2025

Marketing Your Books Through Video



Video allows us to tell the great stories of our customers rather than our own. Great marketing starts with great stories. Be unique, inspire and connect

Bo Dietrick

Video is one of the choices out there to connect with your audience.  A lot of authors are turning to high-quality video content just to market their books.  This visual medium is, for many, an untapped approach that could bring big rewards.

Sunday, January 26, 2025

Why Book Samples are a Powerful Marketing Tool for Writer's



In a book store the customer has the opportunity to take a look inside the book and decide whether or not they want to purchase it.  Without a book sample the reader doesn't really know what they're buying.

It's pretty clear that both ebooks and print books being sold online need to have a sample to give the customer a better online experience, and ensure that what they're buying is what they expect.  

Sunday, January 19, 2025

How I Made My First £100 in a Month Selling My Self-Published Books



If the books are selling, the money will follow. 

Larry Kirshbaum

I self-published my first nonfiction book in 2015 and have gone on to write 12 books.  It wasn't until 2023, and have done over 100 campaigns of varying lengths.

This isn't about getting rich quickly, but rather, it's about building an income and thriving business as a writer.  Which is an ongoing daily battle in itself,  but that's a different story for another day.