Visiting Other Self-Publishing Blogs - Book Marketing and Social Media, Pricing Strategies and the Need for Research

From The Book Designer

Social Media for book marketing


An excellent guest post by Jason Kong on using social media to market books, particularly works of fiction.

http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2012/10/jason-kong/

From Book Making

Pricing strategies 

Michael Marcus took a break from targeting author services companies that are inept or possess questionable business ethics and wrote this excellent post about pricing and value for authors to consider when establishing a price point for their book.

http://bookmakingblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-important-is-book-value.html

From The Savvy Book Marketer

The need for research

The first in a series about mistakes self-publishers make, I really agree with this one and certainly fall into the category of authors who needed to do more research when I made the jump into self-publishing.  This post stresses the need to learn about the self-publishing industry.

http://bookmarketingmaven.typepad.com/book_marketing_maven/2012/09/the-biggest-mistakes-self-published-authors-make.html