They say you don’t judge a book by its cover, but in the world of publications you certainly do.

Think about the last time you visited a bookstore. Unless you went there to purchase a specific book and were totally focused on that, you would have been attraced by certain covers.

Research has shown that people send a few seconds on the front cover, then they turn the book around and spend a few longer seconds on the back cover. If the front cover says “Pick me up” and the back covers says “Buy me”, it is likely you will do exactly that.

In the world of digital books, there is no back cover so your description fills that gap. It is your advertising copy and you must take great care in crafting it.

A good advice is to focus on around 70 words and capture the essence of your book.

The cover must be very attractive and that is not easy for amateurs so I recommend you hire a graphic artist for the job. I generally use www.getclive.com for all my work. He is very reasonable and very professional.

Sometimes though, you just want to make a cover quickly without cost and there is a very useful Warrior Special that helps you make really nice covers.

It’s called Instant Kindle Cover and 3-D eBook Cover Creator and offers very nice templates to build book covers. Follow this link to take a look.

Instant Kindle Cover and 3-D eBook Cover Creator

To your Kindle Publishing Success.

Val Waldeck

Amazon Kindle is one of the hottest niches on the web right now and this is where every author should be. The traffic is truly amazing. I know that from personal experience. Without much advertising on my part (yet!), my books are selling and one has even reached #2 on the Kindle BestSeller List in the prophecy section.

I want to know how to move them even faster and found an interesting-looking program from Ken Sar. I have purchased it and am about to extract what I can effectively use. I thought you might like to take a look as well. I know you – like me – want to publish and sell more books. We want our voice to be heard.

According to top researchers, nearly $1 billion dollars worth of ebooks were sold last year and by the year 2015 that number is expected to grow to over $3 billion dollars…

Ebooks are changing the face of the publishing industry as we know it.

This is what Ken is offering in his Kindle Publishing Course:

• 10-professionally created MP4 Video Modules
• 10-professionally created MP3 audio files
• Kindle Publishing System EBOOK
• Mindmaps
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Content of the Ten Modules:

• Module 1: Learn the differences between traditional and self publishing.
• Module 2: Learn about the Kindle Bookstore and what it is.
• Module 3: Learn how to understand your readers and what they expect.
• Module 4: Learn if you should target a specific Niche Audience.
• Module 5: Learn about Kindle pricing Strategies.
• Module 6: Learn about Professional or Self Editing methods and what is best.
• Module 7: Learn about the Importance of Creating Attention Grabbing ecovers.
• Module 8: Learn about using Specific advertising Techniques to promote your Kindle ebook.
• Module 9: Learn Step by Step How to Publish your ebook on the KDI Network.
• Module 10: Final Recap and Summary, Bringing it all together.

Visit Ken’s site for more information about The Kindle Publishing System.

My Kindle Publishing Made Easy eGuide takes you step-by-step through the process of formatting your book and uploading it to the Kindle site, but to make more sales, we need to get very involved in marketing and this is where Ken’s course may be of benefit to Kindle authors.

To Your Publishing Success!

Val

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Now PAYPAL has come to South Africa (March 2010) and, at last, we have a viable ecommerce option. An important restriction is that they are partnered with First National Bank and you have to open an FNB account (if you don’t already have one). A simple savings or transaction account will suffice.

The big problem for non-techies is how to make a PayPal payment button and put it on their website so people can pay them directly.

I have just released PAYPAL BASICS FOR NEWBIES and this will take you step-by-step through the process. Take a look here:

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If you don’t have a website, go to www.blogger and follow the easy instructions to start a free blog. You can put a picture of your book or ebook there, together with a PayPal payment button and get paid instantly. (Use the text widget to copy your PayPal generated code to.)

PayPal is a secure eBay Company and so easy to use. I highly recommend you look into this. It is a great way to share your work with the world.

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