What are the best free ways to market an e-book?

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   Xenonlitposted 11 years ago

   What are the best free ways to market an e-book?
   
   It is one thing to publish an ebook, but finding a way through the maze of free marketing options is a nightmare! Who has a clear, healthy program for enticing readers to try the book?

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   rlahaposted 11 years ago

   You could always promote it for a couple of days as a free ebook on Amazon.com. You can also put it on different websites, have a personal website for the book to promote it, and even put it on Facebook or Twitter for your friends to follow and promote.  Good luck!

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      vox vocisposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Promoting your ebook as free on Amazon is a great idea. I didn't know this was possible. People would probably be interested, and if it's a great book, they would recommend it, so others would be interested in buying it in the future. Great tips!

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      rlahaposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Hi vox vocis.
      
        Yes it is. I did that for my book of poetry. I gave people 5 full days of free access to my book via Kindle and to buy it if they liked it. It helped with a few sales, but you should also try marketing through other ways as I said.

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      Xenonlitposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks, riaha! I have a facebook page set up now. Amazon has a program for 90 days. If you give them an exclusive, kindle readers can read it for free and we get royalties on the free reads. I am working on
      Twitter, Digg, blogs, profiles etc.

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      rlahaposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Hi Xenonlit.  I also have a Facebook page and a separate webpage set up for my book. I think you have to be in people's faces though to really get them to buy the book. I am having a bit of a hard time right now with that.  I'm not very aggressive.

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      Xenonlitposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Thankriaha! I am in the same boat, but do not have a website yet. I am maxed out on the social networks and have to clean the book up for print. I hate hawking stuff, but will find some ways to sell my print books.

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      rlahaposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Hi Xenonlit:
        No problem! I got a free website at www.webs.com. You could try that and then market the website on your Facebook and Amazon.com pages.  Good luck!

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      Xenonlitposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Oooh. That sounds great! I will check into that as soon as I clean up my still messy book. I have an editor now and he is tearing it up!

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      rlahaposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Hi Xenonlit.
        I didn't have an editor for mine. I self-published through Createspace.com which is an Amazon.com company. Then I put it up as an ebook in Kindle.

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      Xenonlitposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      I have to clean that sucker up! ha ha! Whoo, were there problems on the first book. I just finished the last major renovation and will upload tonight. Then I will feel better promoting it. I learned a lot of things, such as not editing the wrong file

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       rlahaposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       Good luck with cleaning it up. I know. I usually read, re read and reread again. Sometimes it sounds great the first time, but then I find tons of mistakes by the time I proofread it for the third or fourth time.

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       Xenonlitposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       My volunteer editor is a retired editor who will get credit on the next volume. He said something very enlightening: The author can't see the mistakes because the author already knows what she or he wants to say, so writer brain simply fills it in!

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   littleguidesposted 11 years ago

   Why don't you promote in the forum with related topic?

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      rlahaposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      That's a good idea. Xenonlit can also promote the book under their HubPages profile.

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      Xenonlitposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks, littleguides! I put it up on several profiles.Still have some to do!

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