Episode 63 – KU Page Reads, Author-Customers, and the Oblivion Principle

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Question of the Week: Will the new KU payout structure be good or bad for authors and why? How will it impact your own business? (Answer in the comments)

In the beach edition of the Sell More Books Show, Bryan battled sharks and hermit crabs to record the latest episode with Jim. Before they talked tips, Bryan launched his new service, Best Page Forward: A Description Writing and Marketing Service, which you can check out at http://bryancohen.com/bestpage
Jim and Bryan discussed three tips this week on marketing services, procrastination, and book piracy. While the news included stories on direct-to-brain book downloads, Amazon’s publishing imprints, the  Oblivion Principle, and authors as customers, the focus was Amazon’s recent announcement about Kindle Unlimited and page reads. This week’s Question of the Week: Will the new KU payout structure be good or bad for authors and why? How will it impact your own business?
What You’ll Learn: 
  • How you can get a punchy book description that sells
  • Which author marketing services are worth it
  • How to defeat procrastination
  • Why you shouldn’t worry so much about book piracy
  • What makes ebooks still worth reading in the future
  • One author’s inside experience with an Amazon imprint
  • Why it’s unlikely any tricks will save the publishing industry
  • How trad pubs have ignored an important customer segment: authors
  • What Bryan and Jim think about the latest KU announcement
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