Caroline Fyffe is the USA Today bestselling author of Sweet Western Historical Romance, such as the McCutcheon Family series. Her novel “Where the Wind Blows” won the Golden Heart Award of the Romance Writers of America. To date, five of her books have already been translated into German, two of which are published by AmazonCrossing. […]
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Most independent authors focus on ebooks first, especially when they branch out to translations and publishing in foreign countries. But thanks to Print on Demand services, creating print books has become easy and affordable as well. A while ago, I received a question from an author about how to address the market for physical books […]
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If your book is in Amazon’s KDP Select program, you have the opportunity to do a 5 day free run every 90 days. I already talked about free promotions in a previous post, but in this one, I wanted to share which paid advertising sites I used to get a book to the #1 in […]
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I’ve recently updated my Amazon Category Cheat Sheet (that you can download by signing up here) to see if there were any changes since last year to the category system, and to get an overview for which genres sell well in 2016 in Germany. Whether you’re just figuring out what to write or already have […]
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Most authors agree that reviews are an important aspect of book selling as they can influence a reader’s decision whether or not to buy the book. They may also be required if you want to book ads on certain ebook promotional websites. Below, I’ve listed six ways to get reviews for your German books by […]
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In this post, I’m answering the most important questions about translations that authors may have. Where can I find translators? You could go to the usual freelance websites like upwork.com where freelancers of all trades offer their services. E-ditio, Translatorsbase, and translatorscafe.com are web portals that specialize on translation and editing services. Finally, Babelcube is […]
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In a previous blog post I introduced several different social reading platforms that German readers use to connect and chat about books. Lovelybooks.de is the largest of these in Germany, similar to Goodreads for English-speaking readers. Judging from my own experiences with Lovelybooks, I can say that this site offers great opportunities for authors, especially […]
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If you’re an English-speaking author wanting to promote your book in Germany, you may run into the problem that navigating among the multitude of websites where you can book ads is not the easiest thing in the world. First, they are in German, second, they all come with different requirements, costs and offers. Because this […]
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A lot of authors want to know if Germany has “something like Bookbub” – a website that promotes your book deals to their large newsletter. Well, there are a lot of similar services for German authors (you can find a list of ebook promotion websites here) ‑ but is there anything that will work like […]
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Should you produce a German audiobook once you had your book translated? Well, I can’t give you an answer to that question. I can merely give you some numbers about the audiobook market in Germany as it is right now: In 2013, the overall market share of audiobooks of the total book market was below […]
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