Features | Self-Publishing Review

How Do I Sell Books in 2020?

It’s 2020. You have written your book and published it, but nobody is buying it. What works, what doesn’t work? Things have changed for authors but many points of information still churn out the same old advice. We take a look at what’s needed to become a success.

Price is all

Maybe there was a time when you could price your Kindle book at $9.99 and someone might buy it. But now, if you are an indie author, the best price point is between 99 cents and $2.99. Remember that it is better to sell ten books at 99 cents […]

Cate Baum2020-02-21T05:53:13+02:00February 11th, 2020|Categories: Features|Tags: Amazon News and Tips, Book Marketing Advice and Tips|

How To Get Your Book Turned Into A Movie

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Cate Baum2022-09-19T10:44:23+02:00February 9th, 2020|Categories: Features|

How to Optimize Your Book’s Sales Page on Amazon

Your Amazon product page is your book’s final sales page. It is the page that will ultimately dictate which browsers become readers. That means, you need to make it as inviting as possible–you want to optimize your page and draw in more sales and ‘one-click buys.’ After all, authors are always looking to level up their book marketing strategy.

Luckily, Amazon does a lot of the technical work for you. If you were to create a sales page on your website, you’d have to do all the positioning and testing to see what works. When you sell on Amazon, […]

Dave Chesson2020-02-10T11:06:21+02:00February 8th, 2020|Categories: Features, Member Blog|Tags: Amazon News and Tips, Book Promotion Articles, Dave Chesson Articles|

Why Authors Should Stop Blogging Now

If you’re a self-published author, or plan to become one soon, you’ve probably read plenty of great advice about building your online platform. And I’m betting that a common theme is that you should blog regularly.

And here’s why that’s poor advice:

If you set up a blog on your own website, and only ever post there, you risk only reaching people you’ve already reached! It doesn’t matter how engaging, fascinating, controversial, or informative your articles are. It’s irrelevant whether you blog about your writing process, share tips for other authors, take the reader behind the scenes, or offer bonus […]

SPR2020-02-06T06:17:11+02:00February 6th, 2020|Categories: Features, Member Blog|Tags: Author Blogging|

Introducing Bookvertiser: Book Marketing with Results

The team at SPR has created a new book promotion service for authors: Bookvertiser.

The service is a similar process to SPR’s own Amazon Promotions, but with more flexible options, such as the ability to gain 200 sales at once, and new monthly promotions where you can attain 4-5 sales and 50 sales a month to maintain momentum.

The full list of services are:

Kindle Book Sales

We target reader demographics who are likely to buy your book, based on age, gender, interests, and other important factors. You can receive 50, 100, and 200 sales at a time, […]

SPR2020-02-04T01:32:45+02:00February 4th, 2020|Categories: Features, News|Tags: Book Marketing Advice and Tips, Book Promotion Articles|

Mythbusting The Amazon Algorithm Part VI: Updates Fever!

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Cate Baum2020-02-21T04:32:24+02:00December 15th, 2019|Categories: Features|Tags: Amazon Algorithm Tips for Authors, Book Promotion Articles|

Rejected by BookBub? You and over 80% of authors

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Cate Baum2020-02-21T04:34:34+02:00December 6th, 2019|Categories: Features|Tags: Book Promotion Articles, Newsletter Campaign|

Keanu Reeves and Girlfriend: Indie-Publishing Since 2011

So for everyone under a rock for the past week, the top trending person on Twitter is beloved Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves. Because it has come to the world’s attention his girlfriend has gray hair, and she looks like Helen Mirren! (She’s over twenty-five years younger, but let the plebs have their say.) And drumroll, she’s only nine years younger than him! (see Jeff Goldblum, Dennis Quaid, Leonardo DiCaprio, or Sean Penn to see how, ahem, unusual this “small” age gap actually is in Hollywood.)