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.