Authorbuddies.com Offers Book Marketing Assistance Abroad

From Publishing Perspectives:

Self Publishing has significantly lowered the barriers to publish a book. Nowadays, this is a global phenomenon. In the US, “more self-published authors are earning a living wage today than Big Five authors,” according to Hugh Howey’s Authorearnings report. And in Germany, more than half of the Kindle top 100 are ebooks by independent authors for more than a year now. In 2014, for the first time, all top 20 spots were occupied by self publishers. Authors can easily sell their books all over the world, be it in Europe or the US, in India or in Indonesia, even as far as Japan.

As every author knows, a title being available doesn’t mean a title being sold. While it is easy to reach the world wide book market, every country has its own rules and conditions.

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But what about marketing? In your own country, you surely know your tools. You can easily find the perfect category to list your book on Amazon and B&N. You may be using GoodReads giveaways to garner reviews, later you might book a spot on Bookbub for your promotion. Now, there is no Bookbub in Italy. French readers aren’t exactly flocking to Goodreads. In Spain, the KDP categories do not mirror at all the system in the US. And if you come to Germany, you’ll notice that there even isn’t a B&N ebook store to speak of (they do have a Nook Press site in German language though).

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If you don’t have that friend, maybe you can recruit the help of a fellow author. With around 75,000 indie authors in Germany and many more in France, Italy, Spain, Sweden… and all parts of the world, the probability is high that someone else might be looking for support on your home market. This is the idea behind Authorbuddies.com: Here both of you can meet and talk.

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Non-US, Self-Publishing