Tell Amazon Readers About Your Book

There are millions of books on Amazon, making them the biggest book store on Earth.

Also, millions of people are shopping on Amazon today, looking for the best selling books they've heard about in the media, and through friends. Others are there right this minute because they were shopping for something else, checking order status, or just bored with a few minutes to kill.

Amazon ranks the top 100 books every hour. The overall list has 4 pages of 25, listing the books that sold best in the past hour.. or so they say. In reality, they use an algorithm that they won't share, that includes historical sales data so a book that is not selling at all will not do as well as one that is continually selling.

We're not planning on sending out the massive number of email links with our promotion until next month... that's when we'll be a best seller on the list. In the mean time, it's not too soon to let some buyers and shoppers looking at the best selling books today know that the book is available.

There are several ways to do this.

1. Write reviews on books that are on the same topic. Don't go to a competing book and say "this sucks.. buy mine" as they will remove the listing (which is good, you'd look like a jerk). Say something nice.. and mention that you have a new book on the subject. It's perfectly fine if you mention the name of that book.

2. Shop around. Look at other books in your genre. Amazon keeps track of your trail, and since you'll undoubtedly click on the best sellers and your book, there's some chance that links will be made. These appear in Customers who viewed this book also viewed sections.

3. ListMania list. I did one for A Marketing Plan For Life You can view it by clicking on the title here. If you make it good content, with books that are well received by the public (best sellers) and that you know would be good companions to your book, people will like it, rank you as helpful, and the list will appear on some of the pages for the books on your list.

There's more to do at Amazon. But these three, repeated again and again will take up a lot of your spare time. Don't SPAM the lists.. put in good content. Soon, you'll be a recognized expert on the subject of your book.. at least to the millions reading about books on Amazon.

A good group to shoot for