Quick tips to increase your ebook sales on Amazon

Promote Amazon eBooks

 

Simply uploading your eBooks on Amazon is not going to increase your sales overnight.  That is just the initial process and there is much more to do, before it catch the attention and interest of readers. Just like any other product, you need to promote your eBooks effectively.  This doesn't mean you need to spend hours in marketing your eBooks, but promote them smartly.

Jeff Bezos, Amazon's Founder and CEO

Here are quick tips that were shared by successful authors who climbed up to the Amazon Best Sellers page, apart from promoting the eBooks on their websites.

1. Participate actively in the Amazon's Discussion Forum

Active participation at the forum would draw the attention of other amazon members and visitors to take a look at your profile.  Create an Amazon Listmania Lists and a Wishlist.  Ensure, that you list your eBooks in these two categories.



    2.  Kindle Boards

Share your thoughts, ideas about writings and be helpful to other members of this board.  Shameless self-promotion without adding value to the discussion is not going to benefit you in anyway.


   3.  Mobile Read

 

An online community that give members the opportunity to exchange ideas, gain knowledge and seek suggestions on every topic regarding the mobile internet world.  Be a part of this gadget community and its worth your time spent here in getting many hot leads. 

 

   

   4.  Amazon's KDP Select (Kindle Direct Publishing)

A self-publishing platform to sell your books at the Amazon Kindle Store. The eBooks are available for purchase on all Kindle devices and Kindle apps. When books are made available through KDP Select, you can earn 70% royalty and also promote your eBook for free.

 

Another feature is when your eBook is exclusively published at KDP for 90 days, it would also be available in the Kindle Owners' Lending Library.  The best part is you would earn a share of the monthly Kindle Owners' Lending Library fund, when your books are borrowed from the library.

Certainly, these tips would have a great impact on your eBook sales on amazon.  Just ensure not to blast these platforms with advertisements and surely, in no time readers would soon start recognizing your presence on these discussion boards.

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