Episode 165 – Charts Backlash, Mobile Reading, and Amazon Ads Experiments (with Amy Teegan)

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Amy Teegan joined Jim this week as Bryan relaxed in a lake. After thanking their patrons A Band Director’s Guide to Everything Tuba, Gone, and The Cordova Vector, Amy and Jim discussed cultivating ideal readers, relaxation, and experimenting with Amazon Ads. News stories included a new mobile fiction app, Scribd’s changes to its service, Amazon Books backlash, Amazon Charts backlash, and Joanna Penn’s annual ebooks revenue review. This week’s Question of the Week: When it comes to subscription services, would you rather have unlimited content per month, or limited access?
What You’ll Learn:
  • How authors can use the right kind of rest to refuel their creative juices
  • Why some authors are putting obstacles between readers and their books
  • How authors can optimize their Amazon ads for both fiction and nonfiction
  • What features a new serialized reading app has to offer
  • What new content Scribd has added to its subscription service
  • Where the newest Amazon Books opened and how publications and professionals reacted
  • Why Publishers Weekly questions the placement of Amazon imprint books on its Charts
  • What one author’s annual revenue review says about the state of the indie market
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Question of the Week: When it comes to subscription services, would you rather have unlimited content per month, or limited access?

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