Make Your Book Go Viral How To Promote Your Book Online gives you simple and effective ways to market your book so that your book will gain more exposure. It will show you how to use a free eBook to gain more readers, how to use a PowerPoint presentation to sell more books and the best websites to submit your book to increase sales and online exposure.
4. Introduction
There are many ways to promote your book online. As a self-published author it can be
difficult for your book to get exposure online. You need as many people as possible to know
about your book so you can sell as many copies as possible. In this eBook I will discuss six
simple and effective ways to market your book online in order to maximise exposure of your
book and increase your book sales.
#1 Slideshare
www.slideshare.net
Slideshare is a website where people share PowerPoint slide shows, articles and eBooks. It is
a slide hosting service. Files can be uploaded as PowerPoint presentations, PDF articles,
eBooks, Keynote or OpenDocument presentations. You can use this website to promote your
book to hundreds of people. Simply create an attractive, well-designed slideshow using
Microsoft PowerPoint promoting your book. Your slideshow can be about the benefits of
reading your book. It can be about your book description or even about the first chapter of
your book. People enjoy looking at slideshows because they provide information to
individuals using attractive visual images. When creating a slideshow embed a link to your
website and you can also put the link to where your book is going to be sold. Slideshare also
has an option where people can download your slideshow. You can also use Slideshare to
upload articles and sample chapters of your book to increase exposure and make your book
available to more people. In your slideshow, article or sample chapter include a link to your
website and links to other books that you have on sale.
#2 Scribd
www.scribd.com
Scribd is a website where people share eBooks and articles. It is important to your marketing
strategy that as many people as possible get exposed to your book. You can upload a sample
chapter of your book so that people can get an idea of what your book is about. You can also
upload articles about your book and a description of what your book is about. Always include
5. in your articles and book samples your website URL and links to your other books that you
have on sale.
#3 Book Listing Sites
There are websites that will list your book free of charge. Some also offer paid listings. You
can gain exposure for your books from the people who visit these websites looking for new
books to read. Below is a list of websites where you can submit your book.
www.goodbookstoread4uu.com
www.kboards.com
www.kuforum.co.uk
www.pixelofink.com/sfkb
www.pixelofink.com/sskb
www.feedbooks.com
www.manybooks.net
www.free-ebooks.net
www.bookglutton.com
www.askdavid.com
www.bookhabit.com
www.bookdaily.com
www.booksie.com
www.goodreads.com
www.wattpad.com
6. #4 Articles
You can write articles related to the topic of your book and submit the article to article
directories. An article directory is website which has collections of articles on different
topics. Most article directories allow you to put your website in the resource box. You can put
the website link to your author website and therefore gain more exposure to your books.
You can submit your articles to the following list of article directories:
www.thefreelibarary.com
www.sitepromotiondirectory.com
www.highrankdirectory.com
www.articlet.com
www.ehow.com
www.squidoo.com
www.ezinearticles.com
www.gather.com
www.hubpages.com
www.articlecity.com
www.goarticles.com
www.isnare.com
www.promotionworld.com
www.buzzle.com
www.articlesbase.com
www.articlealley.com
www.articlecube.com
www.articlesnatch.com
8. #6 Free eBook Giveaway
In order to increase sales for your book you can create a free PDF eBook with a sample
chapter of your book or an eBook on a topic related to your book. Inside this eBook include a
URL link to the book you are selling that is related to the topic. If it is a book with a sample
chapter from the book you are selling let the readers know that if they want to know more
where they can buy the whole book. Once your PDF eBook is completed upload this eBook
to as many PDF sharing websites as possible and gain massive exposure for your book.
Here is a list of PDF sharing websites:
www.flibby.com
www.docs.thinkfree.com
www.edocr.com
www.pdfcast.org
www.powershow.com
www.uploading.com
www.rapidshare.com
www.2shared.com
www.authorstream.com
www.smashwords.com
www.4shared.com
www.wattpad.com
www.lulu.com
www.free-ebooks.net
www.docstoc.com
www.slideshare.net
9. www.scribd.com
www.issuu.com
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