by Judith Briles | Oct 15, 2024 | amazon, Book Marketing
Amazon Author Alert Amazon is in the change mode again. It has recently changed the way it manages best-seller badges—as in how they are to be displayed ongoing. For authors, this does matter. After all, if you hit bestseller status, you want others to know. ...
by bs_admin | Dec 12, 2023 | Book Marketing, Book Publishing, Book Shepherd, Book Success
Receive the Gift that Keeps on Giving … When I published The Author’s Walk in the Spring of this year, it was the book I openly said, “I wish I had this in my hands 40 years ago when I started down the authoring path.” Little did I know how long, how roller coaster,...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 18, 2021 | amazon, Author Success
Amazon has been the lifeline for millions of authors every day. Some just starting on the authoring and publishing journey; some deeply involved in it with Amazon the primary distributor or printing of their current book(s); and others reawakening and pushing out an...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 11, 2021 | amazon, Author Mistakes, Author Power, Author Success, Webinars
Last Friday, my friend, author advocate, publishing truth-teller and award-winning book designer Joel Friedlander died from bladder cancer. A colleague of many years, I wrote for Joel’s website, TheBookDesigner, until he sold it several months ago; had him many...
by bookshepherd_admin | Mar 17, 2020 | Book Industry News, Book Marketing, Books, Publishing, Shipping Books
Since last year, I, along with others, have been scratching our heads on what to do about Amazon … the Advantage program has been on hold since last May — it was the single, easiest way to get the non-POD version of a book up on Amazon and start the marketing process....
