Amazon Book Review Policy Demystified for Authors
- Free books: okay to giveaway
- Paid reviews: okay to pay
- $50 Amazon spend eligibility requirement
- How to disclose a relationship
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Book Reviews & Testimonials
Five Tips for Managing or Responding to Negative Book Reviews
Should you respond to negative book reviews? If so, how to respond? Here are 5 tips for managing or responding to negative book reviews.
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How to Create Free Apple eBook Promo Codes for Giveaways to Book Reviewers
How to use Apple iTunes Connect to create free promo codes you can give away to readers. Use these for book reviewers, friends, family, clients.
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The Essential Guide to Running a Goodreads Giveaway
There are two Goodreads Giveaways: choose the lower cost option. Includes pre-listing advice and five important tips for maximizing your Goodreads Giveaway experience.
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How and Where to Get Paid Editorial Book Reviews
Should you pay for an editorial book review? • What should you consider when choosing a review business? • Includes 16 book review businesses with rankings and criteria.
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How to Use Amazon KDP Print for Advance Reading Copies-ARCs
ARC timeline considerations and summary • Preparing files before submitting to KDP • Using KDP (formerly CreateSpace) to print advance reader copies
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How Changes to Amazon’s KDP Select and Review Rankings Impact Authors
Amazon changed how they calculate Kindle Edition Normalized Pages (KENP) to improve fairness with paying out royalties for books in KDP Select. They also stopped averaging reviews. Now they are weighted.
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Using Amazon Badges for Book Marketing and Building Your Author Platform
What do those little labels next to names and books, or badges as Amazon calls them, mean? Vine Voice, Real Name, Top 10 Reviewer
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How and Why to Gift eBooks to Reviewers
We recently finished developing six eBooks for the San Diego Reader and wanted to share them with a group of people who volunteered to write reviews. There are a few ways we could have sent them out—including email or a download page—but we chose to gift eBooks to our reviewers. Why not email the eBook?
5 Resources to Seek Free eBook Reviews-Ideal For Priming the Pump
There was a query this week from a member of my Linkedin Group Marketing on Amazon asking how to get his book reviewed before he starts using his KDP Select free promotion days. It’s a good question and echoes the advice I gave here after running my first KDP Select promotion. (Promoting your free days
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