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Marketing a history book on Kindle - how?

by Steven Roberts
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Most of the advice about Kindle marketing starts with the premise that you can select a high traffic genre and you're going to create a business around a series of books in that or similar genres.

The problem here is that the book I want to promote is a one-off 19th century maritime history book. It's a dramatised true story written by a friend of mine. This isn't a business - it's just an attempt to help him get sales.

Things I've tried:
  • Promotion o FB readers and writers pages
  • Twitter account with steadily growing band of niche followers
  • Free giveaway weekends to generate traffic and ranking on Kindle
  • Traffic from well-established vendors on Fiverr (there are some good ones) - usually only works for highly discounted or free books
  • Introductory chapter on Slideshare
  • Video on YouTube
They work to an extent - but are there any other bright ideas that might get things moving?

Thanks



(It's a great story BTW but not something you'd sell on WF!)
#book #history #kindle #marketing
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    You might want to try goodreads and also create a teaser version for wattpad

    I'd also look into content marketing by distributing teaser copies to bloggers that run short story blogs or history blogs.

    Finally, I'd create a short teaser version (heavy on the upsell), get tons of related keywords (supplied by a $25 VA), and instruct my VA to get a HUGE list of free doc upload sites and upload away using the kws as tags.
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