28 Quotes About Book-marketing

…based on second hand knowledge and first-hand experience, a successful online marketing cocktail looks like this: Equal parts hard work, talent and persistence, shaken for a long, long, long, long time, and some luck skewered onto a toothpick and thrown in for good measure.

Don’t be an expert, be a filter.

For me, there is no separation. Writing is the center… But it’s all critical.

You don’t stop the watch when you are afraid of getting old, so don’t cut off advertising when you want to save money.”~Madi Preda

Authors, why sell books one at a time when you can sell them by the set, boxload or trunkload.Charmaine Hammond.bookasabusiness.com

If your author platform is not well built, you may lose readers to an inferior product that was simply easier to find because its platform was superior to yours.

Are you making noise with your book marketing or are you creating a symphony?

EAN codes ordinarily have the first three digits (the prefix) identifying the country of manufacture, but that doesn't make sense for books. The industry committee's clever solution was to invent two new imaginary countries -- called Bookland 1 and Bookland 2 -- with corresponding prefixes of 978 and 979." (29)

I've always thought the best way to promote a book is to write a damned good one. If it's good enough, people will talk about it and do a large part of the marketing for you.