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I'm currently working on an internet system that allows authors, published or not, to promote their books on the internet. This is being done in partnership with a Dutch publishing house which has English language titles.
Background
I'm a published author in non-fiction but like many I was disappointed by sales;-). It seemed that the general advice to write a blog, articles, maintain a facebook site, etc. would require writing another book's worth of content just to promote the first title!
I'm also a Search Engine Optimization specialist so a few years back I put the two together for one of my unpublished titles 'How to really buy a property'. Google the title for that website. This has been very successful in terms of sales to the point where I question wether publishing it at all would have any positive benefit.
The System
We're now working on a similar template system that will be available to all authors. Any person can create a website to promote their book and the system will create a search engine friendly set of pages. There will be a free service and a paid service with more bells and whistles. The pages which are created also help potential buyers (and perhaps even publishers!) get a better feel for the writers style before they decide to buy and so goes far beyond the Amazon preview.
Your Help
I'm now looking for fresh eyes on the website that the system creates with thoughts about useability, would you want it, questions about how it works, etc.
We're using a published title, 'Buying Property in Poland', as a test case, although we are currently now loading about half a dozen other books. The page for this particular title is at: buying-property-in-poland.bookpreview.info
Your thoughts and feedback would be much appreciated.
I'm currently working on an internet system that allows authors, published or not, to promote their books on the internet. This is being done in partnership with a Dutch publishing house which has English language titles.
Background
I'm a published author in non-fiction but like many I was disappointed by sales;-). It seemed that the general advice to write a blog, articles, maintain a facebook site, etc. would require writing another book's worth of content just to promote the first title!
I'm also a Search Engine Optimization specialist so a few years back I put the two together for one of my unpublished titles 'How to really buy a property'. Google the title for that website. This has been very successful in terms of sales to the point where I question wether publishing it at all would have any positive benefit.
The System
We're now working on a similar template system that will be available to all authors. Any person can create a website to promote their book and the system will create a search engine friendly set of pages. There will be a free service and a paid service with more bells and whistles. The pages which are created also help potential buyers (and perhaps even publishers!) get a better feel for the writers style before they decide to buy and so goes far beyond the Amazon preview.
Your Help
I'm now looking for fresh eyes on the website that the system creates with thoughts about useability, would you want it, questions about how it works, etc.
We're using a published title, 'Buying Property in Poland', as a test case, although we are currently now loading about half a dozen other books. The page for this particular title is at: buying-property-in-poland.bookpreview.info
Your thoughts and feedback would be much appreciated.