Episode 131 – Scammers, BookBub Ads, and Amazon Behaving Badly

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Question of the Week: Will Amazon’s error in reporting KU pages read impact your decision to put your books in KU? Why or why not? Also, who gets your vote for Sell More Books Show President? Jim? Bryan? Or a third-party candidate (a listener)?

With the news being a negative nelly, Jim brought the positive in the latest episode of the Sell More Books Show. After tackling tips on selling dozens of books at a time, optimizing BookBub Ad campaigns, and taking part in Amazon’s indie author celebration, the two triple-threats thanked their patrons Michael Alan Peck (and his book The Journeyman http://bit.ly/commjour ), Susan Illene (and her book Stalked by Flames http://bit.ly/stalkill ) and Brecht Ryckaert (and his book WordPress Security 101: http://bit.ly/wpsec101 ). News stories included Amazon’s Disney subscription, Facebook’s Marketplace, a new scammer, a trad pub author turned indie, Facebook video stat reporting errors, and Kindle Unlimited reporting errors. This week’s Question of the Week: Will Amazon’s error in reporting KU pages read impact your decision to put your books in KU? Why or why not? Also, who gets your vote for Sell More Books Show President? Jim? Bryan? Or a third-party candidate (a listener)?

What You’ll Learn:
  • How one sentence helped Honoree Corder sell 11,000 copies
  • How authors can optimize BookBub ad campaigns
  • How Amazon is increasing indie author exposure in October
  • What new Amazon subscription is a perfect fit for young Disney fans
  • What new feature Facebook hopes will increase user engagement
  • How one scammer made three million dollars with fake Kindle accounts
  • How one author overcame her bad experience with traditional publishing
  • What errors in Facebook video stats mean for advertisers
  • Why authors should check their KDP Select page read counts
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Question of the Week: Will Amazon’s error in reporting KU pages read impact your decision to put your books in KU? Why or why not? Also, who gets your vote for Sell More Books Show President? Jim? Bryan? Or a third-party candidate (a listener)?

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