Now why didn’t I think of that? Well, actually, I did, but Nicholas says it much better in his blog. Don’t forget to read bestselling author Jonathon Gunson’s original post at==>BestsellerLabs!
Effrosyni Moschoudi was the very first one to suggest to me this little trick, and I have since used it with all my books. Now, Jonathan Gunson has written a great post with the same easy way to sell more books, as a comment on a presentation by Goodreads CEO Otis Chandler.
In a survey of Goodreads’ 15 million strong membership, he found that the main driver of eBook purchases was, unsurprisingly, ‘referral by a friend’. But when a follow-up question was put to readers, another powerful sales strategy for authors emerged.
They were asked: “What do you want to do when you get to the end of a book?”
The telling response was that 83%wanted tosee what else the author had written.
Here’s the actual slide from Chandler’s presentation:
How Can Authors Take Advantage Of This ‘Show Me More’ Moment?
If most readers finish books and immediately…
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Thanks for sharing, Connie! 🙂
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Jeff Bennington, who did the cover for my first book, “The Tourist Killer,” suggested I put the first chapter of my next book at the end. I’ve done that ever since.
I like the other ideas, too, especially reviews of the other books.
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Yes, as someone who is more of a reader than a writer, I find this blog very accurate.
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