Canister X – A.P. FuchsWriter, Artist, Creator
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With some heavy deadlines looming, I’m gonna be buried for the next little while so if you need me, please use regular email as any social media notes will be left unread until next week. Any social media posts that do happen will be from the bots or done remotely from other places.
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Canister X Book Review #15: How To Really Sell EBooks by Jon F. Merz
How To Really Sell EBooks
by Jon F. Merz
5 out of 5
Jon F. Merz goes hardcore in this brief—but all-too important—guide on how to build your readership via Twitter.
And that’s the beauty of this eBook: it’s niche. This is about increasing your readership and overall eBook sales via Twitter, focusing on that one method of delivery. A “crash course,” if you want.
Look, I’ve been on Twitter a long time, and the sad truth about social media is—right now—there is no “for sure” way to do anything in terms of generating sales. Jon tells us this, so instead offers what’s worked for him. And if it’s worked for him, odds are it’ll work for many others who follow the advice in this book.
Everything is covered from how to sell your eBooks on Twitter, how to gain more followers, how to format your links and so on.
On a personal note, what I really appreciated was Jon not including any hype about the “eBook revolution.” As someone who’s been publishing eBooks for seven years, it drives me nuts when folks treat eBooks as a big deal and hype it up to the extent that it’s “go indie or bust.” Instead, Jon sits down with you over a cup of coffee—or maybe a beer due to how loose and relaxed he seems in this book—and just flat out says, “Hey man, this eBook thing is working out for me. Hadn’t always. Now it is. This is what I’ve done differently, and here’s where I’m at today.”
I’d recommend this book to anyone looking to sell eBooks more efficiently, quickly and properly on the Web.
Kudos to Jon for providing a down-to-earth guide on how to use Twitter to its utmost in every author’s quest to sell more books.
Been taking a step back in my on-line activities in an effort to get work done. On-line communication has been dropped to near nil and I’m making a conscious effort to just focus on the two projects that need to be finished and out for C4 at the end of October. However, I do plan on broadcasting an item or two a day via my various social media channels to give you guys something to look at. Hopefully by the end of next week, things will be back to normal and I’ll return to being more connected.
Axiom-man Episode No. 3: Rumblings is underway and currently our hero is in a bind. That’s all I’ll say for now.
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For the next week, I’ll be off all social media outlets as I’ve got some deadlines to attend to. At most, I’ll be using my social media channels as a means to broadcast various bits from this blog or other book-related items. In terms of direct communication with me, please use my email or, if you’re in my inner circle, the studio phone number.
If you do try and contact me via social media, please note these will go unanswered. If I stumble across the communication upon my return to the channels next week, I’ll get back to you. If not, please hang up and try again.
Part of being a writer. There are times to disconnect and get some work done.
Have a good week.
Today I got some social media started again. I got back on Twitter not long ago, but today I started a new Facebook page and reactivated my Pinterest one.
Feel free to join me on those platforms. Please note that for right now my plan is not to be all that active on them, however I wanted to lay the groundwork for things to come.
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