Are you selling your ebook novels on Amazon? Did you create an Amazon author page? And you also let your book distribute via Draft2Digital (D2D) to iBooks, Kobo, Barnes&Noble, Thalia, Weltbild, Waterstones, Inktera, Hugendubel, Playster, Scribd, Chapters-Indigo, Tolino, 24Symbols, and the library wholesaler OverDrive?
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Very few of the retailers from this listing offer an author page. A single website where readers cannot only find all the books but the author’s portrait, bio, links to the author’s social media and his/her web presence, book trailer video and even a “Buy Now” button. Thanks to this international link, readers all over the world will be able to find your books at the retailer of their choice.
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The Good News?
D2D Author Pages are now available!
They created a central place for authors to send their readers, where they can learn more about the author and find all of their work. Book Tabs will give your readers a place to find out everything they need to know to make the decision to buy and read your book.
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Your very own author page is a critical part of any author marketing strategy. D2D Author Pages will give you a single platform, where readers can find out more about you, and find all of your books. D2D crafted a beautifully designed layout that includes:
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- Your book and series titles
- Your name as the author, with a link for readers to find more books by you
- Links to your social media accounts
- The cover image of your book
- A customizable book description
- Customizable page elements to help promote your book to readers
- A Buy Now button that uses our UBL’s (Univeral Book Links)
- Thumbnails of other books in the same series
- Your author photo and bio, along with links and buttons for readers to follow you on social media, and to either sign up for your mailing list or notified when you have new releases.
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How to Find Your Author Page on D2D
I must admit, it took me a while to discover my own author page on Draft2Digital. It has a hidden entrance… and after I couldn’t find it on D2D’s website, I viewed their YouTube video. At 2:30 minutes I reached the “aha” point:
The first step is to create universal links for each of your books – if you haven’t done already. This is the key! When you look at your book listing you discover next to your name a tiny little icon – a square with an arrow which points to the right upper corner of this square. Clicking this icon brings you to your own author page which is thanks to D2D already filled with all your ebooks.
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How to Edit Your Author Page
Click on “Enter Edit Mode” on top of your author page and edit or add one item at a time. Save the changes or editions after each step! Then click again on “Enter Edit Mode” and do the next step. Add an image of yourself, add your social media links and your website link, check and edit the description of each of your books and your author bio (use paragraphs, bold, italic etc. to make the text more pleasantly readable).
After each edit and save, you will need to click again on “Enter Edit Mode” to continue to the next step.
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Customizable Page Elements
A button that readers will be itching to click, to follow you for new release notifications or to join your mailing list, pointing to the list signup tool of your choice (such as AWeber, MailChimp or ConstantContact). For a video introduction to D2D Author Pages click on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW1cE_ETJWg&t=893s
More details can be found here:
– Universal Book Links:
https://youtu.be/oW1cE_ETJWg?t19s
– Reader View:
https://youtu.be/oW1cE_ETJWg?t3m55s
– Edit Mode:
https://youtu.be/oW1cE_ETJWg?t4m55s
– Inviting Readers to your Mailing List:
https://youtu.be/oW1cE_ETJWg?t6m44s
– Saving Changes:
https://youtu.be/oW1cE_ETJWg?t7m43s
– Adding an Author Photo:
https://youtu.be/oW1cE_ETJWg?t8m16s
– Adding Social Media Links:
https://youtu.be/oW1cE_ETJWg?t9m36s
– Changing Your Hero Image/Featured Book and Using the Promo Tag:
https://youtu.be/oW1cE_ETJWg?t11m25s
– Editing Hero Book’s 40-Word Description:
https://youtu.be/oW1cE_ETJWg?t13m42s
– Editing Buy Now Button:
https://youtu.be/oW1cE_ETJWg?t16m03s
– Including an Author Bio:
https://youtu.be/oW1cE_ETJWg?t17m09s
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Best of all: There is no advertising on your D2D author page, only your books! All readers and potential purchasers at the websites of Apple iBooks, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Thalia, Weltbild, Waterstones, Hugendubel, Inktera, Playster, Scribd, Tolino, Chapters-Indigo, or 24Symbols will see your books only. One more reason to use D2D for the worldwide distribution of your book.
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