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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
a lot of people have said the biggest danger facing authors is obscurity. have you tried promotions like the first two chapters of a book (or even a whole book from time to time, like the first of a series) to download for free on your website, so people can try it and see if they like it ? you could also post about it here for instance in the "deals and promos" forum. you could even try putting the promo on feedbooks.com : be sure to mention explicitly in the book description if it's only the first two chapters, and make sure the website where people could get the whole book is mentioned in the description and again inside the ebook, at the beginning and at the end. both mobileread and feedbooks get a lot of traffic and you might get some new readers that way, and it's free. if you have a new sample every month (hyped in your newsletter) you could get a lot of repeat customers as well as new ones.
anyway, nice to see a publisher who seems to understand how ebooks *should* be. i wish there were more like you. thanks for posting.
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Lots of great info in your post. Thank you. Especially about Feedbooks.com. That's a new one to me.