Amazon Nonfiction Books: Plan and Schedule w/Book Calculator
What you'll learn
- Select a niche to write in for which you have experience and interest that will receive enough traffic to sell books and in which you can compete.
- Always write in a series to more easily sell existing customers the next book and to receive free Amazon advertising for your series on each book page.
- Set your book price at the sweet spot ($2.99) and write to that price point while writing more than 20,000 words.
- Review my current book series release strategy along with the shorter serial release strategy and the benefits of each.
- Learn to use the Book Calculator web page to estimate your book release schedule.
Requirements
- The only requirement is an interest to learn about Amazon nonfiction book writing, self-publishing and marketing (this is purely an information coursre).
Description
Hello,
Welcome to my course, Amazon Nonfiction Books: Plan and Schedule w/Book Calculator.
In this course, I explain how to plan and schedule your Amazon nonfiction book series release. The first third of the course discusses finding a writing niche with traffic that you can compete in and why you should always write in a series. The second third explains how to use choose a book length and price and various release models. The third part demonstrates the use of the free web-based Book Calculator to estimate your book release cycle time.
Learn to plan and schedule an Amazon nonfiction book release.
My name is Brian Jackson. I'm the instructor of the course. I'm also the writer of over one dozen books, publisher of well over 100 Amazon Kindle e-books and instructor with almost 40 Udemy courses to my name.
In this course, I demonstrate preparing a release schedule for a series of nonfiction Amazon books. More specifically, I address the following topics in detail:
Select a niche to write in for which you have experience and interest that will receive enough traffic to sell books and in which you can compete.
Always write in a series to more easily sell existing customers the next book and to receive free Amazon advertising for your series on each book page.
Set your book price at the sweet spot ($2.99) and write to that price point while writing more than 20,000 words.
Review my current book series release strategy along with the shorter serial release strategy and the benefits of each.
Learn to use the Book Calculator web page to estimate your book release schedule.
Learn to plan and schedule any book release the easy way.
I am directing this course to writers new to writing, self-publishing and marketing Amazon nonfiction books and those old timers wanting to brush up their publishing skills.
Whichever is the case, I look forward to joining you on a journey through the lectures ahead.
I'll see you in the classroom,
---Brian
Who this course is for:
- This course is aimed at writers new to writing, self-publishing and marketing books on Amazon.
- This course is also for old-timers looking to brush up on their writing and publication skills.
Instructor
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- 155,957 Students
- 42 Courses
I was born in the middle of the last century in Los Angeles, California. After moving for a time to the Silicon Valley, I graduated from Humboldt State University amid the redwoods of Northern California.
Two weeks after graduation I was working as a computer systems programmer for Lockheed Missiles and Space (LMSC) back in the Silicon Valley. Two months after that and I was married as I have been happy ever since (for 40 years).
After 14 years at Lockheed, I moved from working on IBM mainframes to using PCs running the Unix operating system and encountered a thing called the Internet. Cisco Systems seemed to be the right place to work, so I joined the company as their 650th employee. Eleven years later Cisco had grown to over 20,000 employees.
I retired at the age of 48 and instantly became bored!
Throughout my professional career, I'd always enjoyed both writing and providing technical training. So, I attended creative writing classes at my local junior college and began to write.
I managed to write and self-publish a handful of books, but things didn't take off until my wife, Melanie Jackson, an established author with a New York company, left traditional publishing to join me in self-publishing.
In 10 years, from 2010 to now, Melanie and I have made half-a-million dollars self-publishing well over 100 books. I also managed to record a pair of audiobooks for Amazon and Audible sale.
By 2014, our rapid rise to Kindle fame had already dwindled. I decided to pursue my second passion of giving training presentations.
Since 2014 I've published over 48 online video training courses for training sites such as Udemy and Skillshare. My goal is to provide low-cost high-quality screencast-based educational material focusing on my areas of expertise; namely, self-publishing and book cover design using the GIMP. I continue to expand my video training catalog while focusing some energy on resurrecting our flagging book sales using various marketing techniques. Finally, I spend a portion of my time maintaining both my website and my wife’s website, which was developed using WordPress.
I currently live in Las Vegas, Nevada, with my lovely wife and Butterscotch the cat.
I'll see you in the classroom,
---Brian