How to promote a kindle book on goodreads

HOW TO PROMOTE A KINDLE BOOK ON GOODREADS

WHAT IS GOODREADS  It

is a social cataloging website

 It

permits individuals to sign up and register books to create their library catalogs and reading lists.

 It

also allows users to create their own groups of book suggestions and discussions.

IN THIS PRESENTATION, WE WILL LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT WAYS ON HOW TO PROMOTE A KINDLE BOOK THROUGH THE GOODREADS AUTHOR PROGRAM.

PIMP YOUR PROFILE  Add

a photo to your profile

 Add

information about yourself

LINK YOUR BLOG  Your

posts will automatically appear on goodreads.  Your followers will be notified of your posts  There will be tons of exposure for your books

PROMOTING A KINDLE BOOK WITH FRIENDS AND FANS  Goodreads

has a friends system that works a lot like the friends systems on other sites

 Join

a Goodreads Group

 Join

discussions.

 Leave

a comment.

IT'S GOOD TO HAVE FRIENDS BUT IT'S EVEN BETTER TO HAVE FANS  Fans are best for the ego  Set up a Q&A Group for

discussion and invite your fans or friends.  Goodreads members

love to chat with authors

YOU CAN ALSO SEND MESSAGES TO YOUR FRIENDS AND FANS 

Be sparing with this to avoid being seen as a spammer.



Only send messages when there is a major event like giveaway or publication of a new title.

PROMOTING A KINDLE BOOK WITH PAID ADVERTISING ON GOODREADS  Goodreads

offers pay-per-click contextual ads.

 Select

demographic and genre so that your ads are shown to the right people.

 Upload

a free chapter so they can preview your book directly from the ad.

PROMOTING A KINDLE BOOK WITH GOODREADS GIVEAWAYS  Offer

a physical copy of your book. Don’t worry because you only have to give away one copy.

 Consider

joining the Goodreads advertising program to advertise your giveaway.

RESPONDING TO NEGATIVE REVIEWS  NEVER

post a comment or contact the reviewer through the message system.

 By

commenting, you are pushing bad review up into a more prominent position.

 Bad

reviews can be useful feedback that you can learn from the next time that you write a book.

 REMEMBER:

Every author has some bad reviews.

RESPONDING TO POSITIVE REVIEWS  Click

the button to like them.  Or you can just leave a comment thanking that person.  Either one of these actions will help the positive review up toward the top of the list.