We’ll be running a workshop in Auckland next month on how to use social media, especially Facebook, to market books and ebooks. Love it or hate it, social media – with Facebook and Twitter to the fore – are taking over more and more of the discussion around books. Books are a traditional word-of-mouth sale [...]

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Google has just launched the Google Ebooks affiliate programme, opening the door for any website owner to become an ebook retailer. Likely candidates would be bloggers, publishers, media sites, link sites and anyone who can generate a reasonable amount of traffic. Even booksellers. Sites can link to a single ebook, a group of titles, or [...]

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I’ve reproduced the article I wrote for the Australian Booksellers Association magazine on the subject of what you have to do to set up an ebook store. This is truly a moving feast but the article below should give you some insight into what’s involved right now. From the August 2010 iss ue of News [...]

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