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Free Online Ways To Promote Your Book

by Anne Wayman on August 31st, 2007

Dream Jobs To Go has posted 8 Easy Online Ways to Market Your Book for Free by Regina Paul. Although I like the gist of her ideas, I do differ in some important ways.

For example, her first tip is ”Create a presence on the Web” but then she suggests using free web space. Every book author needs a website, but free web space is a mistake, particularly when you can have real space so cheaply, like at 1and1. I notice she’s moved her own website to someplace that allows her a real domain name.

I’m not sure how much good signing guest books does… we hardly see them anymore on websites, but if you do, her suggestions about including your own site is a good one.

She leaves out blogging – and blogging is now so easy to be almost a must for authors. In fact, a case can be made to make your book’s website a blog.

What I think is important about this article is not the details so much, as the general notion that there are lots of free, inexpensive and easy ways to promote your book online.

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