How to advertise your ebooks on the net

First and foremost, always include info on your books in your "sig" line. Send press releases to ezines, appropriate web sites, newsgroups and to your online friends who in turn will post the info other places you might not think of. Submit articles or stories to paying and even non-paying e-zines and newsletters, especially if they will include the url to your website. Create your own newsletter and include info on your upcoming releases, author interviews, book reviews and book signings.

An author website is a must. The best advice I can give you is to check out Victoria Strauss' "Building a Writer's Web site."
http://www.sff.net/people/victoriastrauss/victoria%20strauss%20whywebsite.html

No doubt you have submitted your web site url to a number of search engines and web sites. If not, or you need help on how to submit your site to search engines, check out Virtual Promote for valuable suggestions.
http://www.virtualpromote.com/

Scribes World.com, SFF World, The Eternal Night, Twilight Times and other ezines publish interviews with epublished authors. Sime~Gen, The Blue Iris Journal, WordWeaving.com, ebooksnbytes.com and many others post ebook reviews.

Take advantage of reasonable banner ads at Scribes World.
http://www.scribesworld.com/advertising.html

And SpecFicWorld.
http://www.specficworld.com/

Join online communities such as SFF Net if you write SF/F.
http://www.sff.net

Submit your new ebook release info to Solar Flare. Ask about their interactive author interviews.
http://www.sflare.com/news/submit.shtml

Authors Den offers great promo opportunities.
http://www.authorsden.com/

Take advantage of free promo opportunities, such as the "shameless promotion" section of the SpecFicMe! Market newsletter. You can send the latest news of any sales (including books, short stories, articles) you recently made.
http://www.specficworld.com/

Preditors and Editors™ -- will help advertise your *first* book.
http://anotherealm.com/prededitors/publback.htm

Get listed at About.com
http://publishing.about.com/library/bl_addebook.htm

Check out an article by Charlotte Boyett-Compo on "What You Won't Be Getting..." [when you sign with an epublisher.]
http://www.twilighttimes.com/c_Compo13b.html

Resources

Reference

eBook Sellers

Several distributors and ebook stores offer a non-exclusive agreement and will sell your books for you.

eBookAd.com has a very user-friendly web-based system for listing your books. Check out their affiliate program.
http://www.eBookAd.com/

eBookHome.com will soon (perhaps before you read this) have over 2,000 more new titles from major publishers like Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Mcgraw-Hill and others. Their stated goal is to provide readers with an independent alternative to the two-name stores and moreover, to give smaller publishers an opportunity to compete alongside the bigger ones.
http://www.eBookHome.com/

eBooksonthe.net offers authors worldwide the opportunity to promote and sell their books/POD/ short stories/novellas/books.
http://ebooksonthe.net/

KnowBetter.com publishes ebook news, reviews and will list your ebook for free.
http://www.knowbetter.com/

Reviewer Lists

Research

Mary's Wolfe's Guide to Electronic Publishers
http://www.coredcs.com/~mermaid/epub.html

And finally, beloved fantasy author Piers Anthony maintains a comprehensive reference page on Internet Publishing.
http://www.hipiers.com/publishing.html

These suggestions are a very small sample of the dozens of no-cost and low-cost promo ideas that can be found in Practical Tips for Online Authors available from Twilight Times Books.

Copyright © 2001 by Lida E. Quillen, publisher and author of Practical Tips for Online Authors.
http://www.twilighttimesbooks.com/practical_tips.html

Re-printed by permission of the author.

  About the Author

Lida E. Quillen is an author, editor, literary agent, publicist and web master. She is the founder and owner of cyber book shoppe and publishing house Twilight Times Books as well as the Twilight Times Agency and Twilight Times ezine.

Ms. Quillen is also the founder and owner of Lady of the Net Productions (web design/hosting service), publisher of the eBook Ecstasy newsletter, moderator of the online authors email list, member of Ardeon, Authors Den, SFF Net, EPPRO, Digital Women and Phenomenal Women of the Web. She shares the knowledge and experience gleaned from her internet endeavors in her non-fiction book, Practical Tips for Online Authors

Author's Note: If you found any of the above recommendations especially useful to you, please support our epublishing endeavors and our authors by purchasing a book from Twilight Times Books and/or one of our distributors.

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