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This post is for foreign authors wishing to publish on Amazon; the complete lowdown on how to get a US TIN (Tax Identification Number) and file a W8-BEN.
Below is what it says on DTP Amazon:
I am a foreign resident in a country with a U.S. tax treaty and have provided a Form W8-BEN, but the [...]
BACK TO BASICS – BOOK PROMOTION
How many of you have been tempted to or already paid for “Blog Tours”? Did it increase your book sales? Expensive book trailer? Fun but more book sales? When it comes to book sales, the old adage is still true: the best form of advertising is “word of mouth”. The [...]
This post about getting delisted on Amazon is getting cluttered with new information, and I want to call attention to Mark Coker’s comment here. A short recap: my novel was delisted from the Amazon Kindle on Saturday because the price on Kobo (89 cents) is below the price that Amazon allows authors to set – [...]
I have a daughter. Last night we were playing around with the site GirlSense.com. On the site you can design different fashions and accessories, as well as buy the fashion creations of other users. I’ve seen other avatar makers in the past, but the amount of detail you can do on these clothes, bags, shoes, [...]
I started a blog to review books published at Smashwords.com. There is a real need to help Smashwords authors get the word out on what they offer and how to reach them. The site is: http://smashwordsreviewed.blogspot.com.
Any Smashwords author can contact me at neilcrab@hotmail.com and we’ll make arrangements. The first review is Mike Jastrzebski’s The Storm [...]
This past Saturday, I was a sponsored book on Kindle Nation – something I wholeheartedly recommend. It costs $69 for one-day sponsorship, with other options:
Option 2 – Free Kindle Nation Short Excerpt Email Sponsorship – 1 Day:
Free Kindle Nation Shorts excerpt and sponsorship to be emailed to 5,500 opt-in free email [...]
Amazingly interesting move, reported in the Wall Street Journal:
In a significant defection for the book industry, best-selling marketing author Seth Godin is ditching his traditional publisher, Portfolio, after a string of books and plans to sell his future works directly to his fans.
The author of about a dozen books including “Purple [...]
Publishers Weekly has introduced an intriguing new program called PW Select that will review self-published books. They couch it in very positive terms:
We are returning to our earliest roots. PW dates to 1872, when it was first known as Trade Circular Weekly and listed all titles published that week in what was then [...]
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