How To Sell Your Book

Your book is being published, and hitting the market. With all the thousands of books available, you need to master how to sell your book. There are several tricks of the trade you can use to sell your book more successfully.
Get a literary agent. Having a representative talking about your book is the best way to get it into the hands of an editor.

• Trust your book publisher to know the market and where your book might be more successful. But don't put them completely in charge. The best way to sell your book is to promote it yourself even to your publisher. Make sure it ends up in your favorite book store.
• Make sure, too, that you have plenty of copies for yourself. You can do a lot of things with them to sell your book.
• Give away a few copies. Word of mouth is the best advertising. If you can get people talking positively about your book, you can sell your book.
• Send a few copies to your college or university magazine, with an announcement you've been published. It is free publicity for your work, and colleges enjoy telling success stories about their alumni.
• Tell everyone you know that you've had a book published! The easiest way to sell your book is to sell it to friends, family, and colleagues. They will be the first to support and encourage you, and to tell their friends to do the same.
• Never lose an opportunity to promote your book. A conversation on the bus can lead to an opportunity to sell your book. Commit to your work with pride.
• Many online retailers such as Amazon have made it a fairly easy process for anyone who has published a book to sell it on their site. The process of actually selling your book on their site may vary, but the first step is usually the application process. You'll submit titles to your books and possibly even a little bit about your book. Once your title has been approved, that means that technically your book can be sold. Payments are usually made at the end of each month on books that have been sold the previous month, and are paid by electronic transfer.
• The powerful way to promote a book online is social bookmarking. With more than 100 million computers sold this year, social bookmarking will allow you reach more of these people who are logging onto the internet, searching for you.
  

(c) 2011 Bookpal Australia Pty Ltd - All Rights Reserved Worldwide
http://www.bookpal.com.au is helping self publishers all around the world to successfully self publish and market their books with cost effective solutions to create bestsellers. The website offers a free book for budding self publishers, and many other free resources.

Terence Tam is the founder of BookPal, he previously spent 6 years as an academic and was a contributing author for several academic books. Frustrated with the level of service he was getting with traditional publishers, he set up his own self publishing company to help other authors publish and market books with cost effective yet efficient solutions.