HOW TO MAKE GREAT COVERS FOR YOUR EBOOKS

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

You Must Promote Your Kindle Books

Kindle Publishing is certainly an exciting venture. My experience is that Kindle books are flying off the virtual shelfs at an amazing rate. That is not surprising when you know that Amazon are said to be selling over one million Kindle readers a month. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. There are iPads, smartphones and other digital devices with Kindle apps bringing a ready market to the Kindle Store. This is definitely the place for authors to be.

One of our major problems, however, is being noticed among the millions of other Kindle books. Of course, our titles and keywords help immensely, but we need to do a lot more marketing.

Those who have reached the million best-seller status all have one thing in common – they promote their books seriously.

I have acquired a 36 page PDF eGuide that has really opened my eyes in this area. It tells you just about everything you need to know about promoting your Kindle book. It is easy to read and clearly explains each type of promotion, demonstrating how to use the free tools already on Amazon plus some other great no-cost resources in an easy-to-follow plan.

This guide shares :

- An simple 10 step plan to promote your Kindle books.

- Easy ways to increase your book exposure.

- A replicable system for every book published that does most of
the work for you.

- Visual instructions that walk you through each step of the
process!

- Resources to easily outsource part or all of your efforts.

There are some really good tips in this guide. One of the things
that really interested me was how to get book reviews in a way that
is completely acceptable and encouraged by the Amazon management team.

I recommend you take a look at it.

Here’s the link:
http://valwaldeck.com/recommends/KindleKickstartPromotion

To your Kindle Success!

Val

P.S. I am .20% on my way to selling one million Kindle books! One day that will be 20% and then 60% and then 100% !!!

Val Waldeck
Author of Kindle Publishing Made Easy
http://kindlepublishingmadeeasy.com

How To Write eBooks That Sell
Author: Val Waldeck

eBooks are very popular and much sought after. This is an ideal medium to share your expertise and passion with the world at very little cost. More people are buying and reading electronic books than ever before and Amazon.com tell us they are selling more eBooks than hardcovers.

“Eyeballs are moving from print to online. eBooks are the future.”
– Dan Poynter

Here’s a brief summary of how to go about writing ebooks:

* Choose a title that works.
* Outline your topic.
* Include four to seven headings in your outline.
* Add three to five sub-headings under each main heading.
* Write an  introduction.
* Write some explanatory paragraphs to support each heading and sub heading.
* Finish with a short conclusion.
* Add your website and contact details and a special offer.

Discover how easy and profitable it is to write, publish and sell your own eBooks with the minimum of fuss and expense.

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