Book Promotion

Read all the articles on book marketing and book promotion from SPR – including Kindle marketing, social media marketing, newsletter marketing, and more.
Promotion for eBooks on emailers

Book Promotion Services: What Works for Immediate Sales?

A lot of the advice you'll find about book marketing is frustratingly vague. You'll find a lot of blog posts ...
Here's why Amazon is not Banning Authors

Six Reasons Why Amazon is Not Banning Indie Authors

There has been a lot of panic recently with horror stories about Amazon banning indie authors en masse for promoting ...
Mythbusting Part V

Mythbusting The Amazon Algorithm Part V: Amazon Categories and Keywords

Here we go again. Everyone is freaking out... What's going on with Amazon's book categories? Amazon may be preparing somewhat ...
How to Get Book Reviews

How to Get Book Reviews in 2018 (Without Going Crazy)

So you want to know the best ways of getting book reviews for your book now it is finally written? ...

Mythbusting The Amazon Algorithm Part IV – Is Amazon Ranking Broken?

Cate Baum examines the latest author outrage that Amazon is Broken. Many blogs have been shouting about how Amazon has ...
Indie Author Outrage

What Book Promotions Are OK and Not OK on Amazon Now

This is the first in a series on author internet outrage and Amazon adventure by Cate Baum. There's been a ...
Free Book Marketing Sites

Best Free Book Marketing Sites

Most know that BookBub is very expensive, as well as very difficult to get into. SPR's own BookBub alternative (starting ...
Places to Blog

15 Places for Authors to Write a Guest Post

Blogging is an essential part of book marketing. It's always a bit mystifying to hear authors say, "I don't know ...