Episode 216 – Kindle Worlds, Shopping Actions, and Social Media Stories

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Question of the Week: Did Amazon end the Kindle Worlds program because of something major behind the scenes or was it the result of underperformance? What’s your reasoning for your choice?

Is something sinister afoot with the recent ending of Kindle Worlds or simply poor ROI for Amazon? Bryan welcomes his guest cohost Rachael Herron and offers listeners a heck of a summer deal on book Happy Book Reviews from the Author Marketing Club. And Bryan is still running his sale on book descriptions through May 30th. Rachael and Bryan offer up a huge thanks to this week’s Patrons – Angelborn, Dad’s Girls, and Black Shadow Moon. Hot tips of the week include how to get more reviews, why friends are not the best editors, and what to do about online bullies. This week’s top five news stories take us through who needs a morality clause in their contract, how to use social media Stories to your advantage, what are the pros and cons of direct sales, which author is most recently under attack from pirates, and why is Kindle Worlds getting the Deathstar treatment from the Amazon galaxy. Question of the Week: Did Amazon end the Kindle Worlds program because of something major behind the scenes or was it the result of underperformance? What’s your reasoning for your choice
What You’ll Learn:
  • Why authors shouldn’t use friends for editing
  • How to master marketing in minutes
  • What to do about online harassment
  • How publishers are reacting to the #MeToo movement
  • How Stories are taking over social media and what authors should do about it
  • Who the next Amazon contender could be and how they’re doing it
  • How one author has had to battle piracy of her books
  • Our guess on what happened behind the scenes at Kindle Worlds
Links:
Rachael Herron’s Blog

The Petal to the Metal Podcast

The Happy Book Reviews/AMC Summer Blowout Spectacular

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