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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /srv/users/sandra/apps/sandra/public/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Today’s guest blogger, Penny Sansevieri, is one of my favorite people in the book marketing world. She is as friendly as she is smart. She is CEO and founder of Author Marketing Experts, Inc., the\u00a0first marketing and publicity firm to use Internet promotion to its full impact through online promotion and its\u00a0signature program, “The Virtual Author Tour\u2122” Penny is a best-selling author, internationally recognized book marketing and media relations expert, and an adjunct professor at\u00a0NYU. She\u00a0is the author of 14\u00a0books, including <\/em>How to Sell Books by the Truckload<\/a>. To learn more about Penny\u2019s books or her promotional services, visit her web site<\/a><\/em>. To subscribe to her free newsletter, send a blank email to: <\/em>mailto:subscribe@amarketingexpert.com<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n By Penny C. Sansevieri<\/strong><\/p>\n What if I told you that you could simply and easily revive an old or older book and start making sales on it again? Would you be game?<\/p>\n Most of us who have been writing for a while are sitting on a lot of content and a lot of older books that are taking up virtual shelf space on Amazon.<\/p>\n I was at an event a few weeks ago and an author there said that he had a science fiction\/fantasy book that had been out for a few years and it hadn\u2019t done well.<\/p>\n \u201cI sure wish I knew then what I know now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n I realized that for him, it\u2019s really not too late.<\/p>\n This is an issue a lot of authors face: a book that\u2019s been out for a while and you feel like you\u2019ve really exhausted your options. Book sales are sagging and you figure it\u2019s over. Well, it\u2019s not. You have a ton of options now to revive, renew, and even re-release a book with minimal effort.<\/p>\n Here are just four of them.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s look at this first because this is often the easiest to do. Many authors with older titles haven\u2019t done anything with them digitally and now is the time to do this.<\/p>\n If you are someone who\u2019s been published by a traditional house, see if they have the rights to your digital content. Many old contracts don\u2019t have this provision so be sure and check. What do you need to do? Most savvy e–book folks can work with a PDF of the book, and course, a Word doc works well, too. It will need to be converted to a digital format and that\u2019s it. It\u2019s pretty easy.<\/p>\n If you do this, you may also want to freshen up the book cover and add some quotes you got.<\/p>\n The guy I spoke to about his sci-fi book also told me that his book was long, 330 pages to be exact, and I said, \u201cWhy not split it up and re-release it as a series and a bundle?\u201d (See Exhibit A on the right.) Even if it\u2019s the same book, it doesn’t\u00a0matter. Some folks like shorter books, we know that. And it\u2019s also a great way to start owning the virtual shelf.<\/p>\n A longer book can be separated out (make sure you chop it at a natural ending point in the book). Then you can put these separate segments up on Amazon. With a book that\u2019s as long as his, you could do three separate e-books.<\/p>\n Make sure that you have a page in the back of each book that leads the reader to the next book in the series. Also, doing this will now revive your publication date and bring it current. This will open up new options for promotion and reviews, too.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, we had one of our authors redo a cover for her book \u2013 one that\u2019s been out for a while. When we did that, sales started spiking again.<\/p>\n We had another author who tried this and it worked again.<\/p>\n I was at an event last weekend and an author told me she did this, too. It\u2019s not an Amazon algorithm thing per se, but it\u2019s often the newly, refreshed content that helps to spike visibility of the book because it looks new to readers, especially if your book is genre fiction. These readers are always on Amazon looking for a new book to read so it\u2019s a great way to grab their attention.<\/p>\n We have all heard that we should \u201cown the shelf,\u201d which means that you want to publish a lot, and pushing out new content to Amazon in the form of an e-book can help propel your other, older books, onto a reader\u2019s radar screen. If you have white papers, blog content, or pieces of your book that you didn\u2019t include or cut out because of length, you can package these up and release them on Amazon.<\/p>\n An example of this is an author we\u2019re working with who wrote the third in a series of books. The third book had a lot of content removed to keep it at a particular length. She\u2019s going to take the content that\u2019s been removed and release it in a \u201cdirector\u2019s cut\u201d version, putting the separate segments on Amazon.\u00a0 If you do that, make sure that all of the books lead to all your other books with a page or link or something else to direct them.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a lot you can do with a book that\u2019s been out for a while. As long as the content is still relevant there\u2019s almost nothing you can\u2019t do to it to revive it and give it a second chance.<\/p>\n Keep in mind that once you do revive it, you can start to pitch it or, in some cases, repitch it, to reviewers. Sometimes authors will tell me that they\u2019ve already pitched certain reviewers for their book and didn\u2019t get a response the first time around, and ask if they should they pitch them again.<\/p>\n The answer is yes, you should. Once you have a new book, it\u2019s like a clean slate. Make the most of it!<\/p>\n What have you done to revive sales of an older book, or what questions do you have about how to do it?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/a>Today’s guest blogger, Penny Sansevieri, is one of my favorite people in the book marketing world. She is as friendly as she is smart. She is CEO and founder of Author Marketing Experts, Inc., the\u00a0first marketing and publicity firm to use Internet promotion to its full impact through online promotion and its\u00a0signature program, “The Virtual Author Tour\u2122” Penny is a best-selling author, internationally recognized book marketing and media relations expert, and an adjunct professor at\u00a0NYU. She\u00a0is the author of 14\u00a0books, including <\/em>How to Sell Books by the Truckload<\/a>. To learn more about Penny\u2019s books or her promotional services, visit her web site<\/a><\/em>. To subscribe to her free newsletter, send a blank email to: <\/em>mailto:subscribe@amarketingexpert.com<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n By Penny C. Sansevieri<\/strong><\/p>\n What if I told you that you could simply and easily revive an old or older book and start making sales on it again? Would you be game?<\/p>\n Most of us who have been writing for a while are sitting on a lot of content and a lot of older books that are taking up virtual shelf space on Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,49,20,11],"tags":[565,566,567],"class_list":["post-6880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-publicity","category-guest-columns","category-news","category-tactics","tag-how-to-sell-books-by-the-truckload","tag-penny-sansevieri","tag-stale-book"],"yoast_head":"\n4 ways to revive\u00a0a stale book<\/h3>\n
1. Release it in e-book format.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
<\/a>2. Bundle your e-books.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
3. Change up the cover.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
4. Short is the new long.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Copyright (c)<\/em>\u00a02015 Penny C. Sansevieri<\/em><\/h6>\n
4 ways to revive\u00a0a stale book<\/h3>\n