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How Creativity Rules the World With Maria Brito

The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

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How to Market Your Way to the Top of a Bestseller Chart

Colleen Hoover's sales really started to pick up in the spring of 2020 when she made five of her ebooks free. Readers devoured the free novels and started buying her backlist so anyone who says free books don't work anymore there you go. You can market your way to the top of a bestseller chart but you cannot make this kind of viral hit unless your books are amazing. The Kindle Prunar blog has a good roundup of some of the bugs that Amazon seems to have right now around pricing and categories. Ingram just invested in book.io an NFT marketplace for buying reading and selling ebooks and audio books, which is underpinned by the idea of the digital asset

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