Podding is a great new way of increasing your
book sales on the web by teaming up with a specialist publishers like DragonCub.
Podding is a new term coined to describe a relationship between an author and a ‘print on demand’ publisher.
Instead of stacking rejection slips by touting your manuscript around agents and traditional publishing houses, a podding agreement will let a publisher take your manuscript, edit and format the text ready for firing out paperback or hardback copies as soon as the orders come in.
DragonCub will also help with
marketing the book, but because podding cuts the overheads, you earn a bigger royalty on each sale.
You can also help yourself
sell more books online with these five simple steps:
- Team up with a podding partner like DragonCub
- Set up a website – call the site <yourbooktitle>.com. This is easy to do with a blogging tool called WordPress. Then, write one or two articles a week for your blog linking to your book page on the podding site.
- Let people know about your blog by setting up accounts on social networking sites – the type of site depend on your readers.
- Join forums and online communities that specialise in your niche and offer free articles based on snippets of your book in return for links back to your site or your book sales page.
- Politely ask any readers who comment on your book to post their comments on your book sales page. Reader recommendations are valuable resources that drive sales.
The objective is to raise the profile of your book by raising your profile on the internet. Every site that carries one of your articles, blogs or comments with a link back to your sales page makes your book easier to find for interested readers.
Your readers are out there – you just need to team up with
online publishing experts like DragonCub to help you find them.
