Let's look at how to promote a Kindle book through the Goodreads Author Program.

1. HOW TO PROMOTE A KINDLE BOOK
ON GOODREADS

2. WHAT IS GOODREADS
It is a social cataloging website
It permits individuals to sign up and register
books to create their library catalogs and
reading lists.
It also allows users to create their own groups
of book suggestions and discussions.

3. IN THIS PRESENTATION, WE WILL LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT
WAYS ON HOW TO PROMOTE A KINDLE BOOK THROUGH
THE GOODREADS AUTHOR PROGRAM.

4. PIMP YOUR PROFILE
Add a photo to your
profile
Add information
about yourself

5. LINK YOUR BLOG
Your posts will
automatically appear
on goodreads.
Your followers will be
notified of your posts
There will be tons of
exposure for your
books

6. PROMOTING A KINDLE BOOK WITH
FRIENDS AND FANS
Goodreads has a friends system that
works a lot like the friends systems on
other sites
Join a Goodreads Group
Join discussions.
Leave a comment.

7. IT'S GOOD TO HAVE FRIENDS BUT IT'S EVEN
BETTER TO HAVE FANS
 Fans are best for the ego
 Set up a Q&A Group for
discussion and invite
your fans or friends.
 Goodreads members
love to chat with authors

8. YOU CAN ALSO SEND MESSAGES TO YOUR FRIENDS
AND FANS
 Be sparing with this to
avoid being seen as a
spammer.
 Only send messages
when there is a major
event like giveaway or
publication of a new title.

9. PROMOTING A KINDLE BOOK WITH PAID
ADVERTISING ON GOODREADS
Goodreads offers pay-per-click contextual ads.
Select demographic and genre so that your
ads are shown to the right people.
Upload a free chapter so they can preview
your book directly from the ad.

10. PROMOTING A KINDLE BOOK WITH
GOODREADS GIVEAWAYS
Offer a physical copy of your book. Don’t
worry because you only have to give away one
copy.
Consider joining the Goodreads advertising
program to advertise your giveaway.

11. RESPONDING TO NEGATIVE REVIEWS
NEVER post a comment
or contact the reviewer
through the message
system.
By commenting, you are
pushing bad review up
into a more prominent
position.

12. Bad reviews can be
useful feedback that
you can learn from
the next time that
you write a book.
REMEMBER: Every
author has some bad
reviews.

13. RESPONDING TO POSITIVE REVIEWS
 Click the button to like
them.
 Or you can just leave
a comment thanking
that person.
 Either one of these
actions will help the
positive review up
toward the top of the
list.