Wordclay Promotion: Expand Your Audience, Market Your Book Online with an E-Book

Wordclay has teamed up with Smashwords and is running a great deal this month on E-Book formatting.  For just $75.00 (regularly $150) Wordclay will properly format your manuscript for you to be sold as an E-book in 9 different formats on Smashwords.

Now, authors can sign up for free on Smashwords and do this themselves if they have time. We’ve discussed before that yes, E-books are formatted much differently than regular book manuscripts.  Read The Smashwords Style Guide for free to learn more!  However, for someone who may not have time and energy to invest in this – afterall you just poured out blood, sweat and tears over writing that book – you might prefer to have someone do it for you.  So, if you are publishing with Wordclay, I think the $75 price tag is not too bad. According to Wordclay’s FAQ about this service, authors are entitled to their full royalties earned through sales through Smashwords, which is up to 85% of each sale!

The FAQ also points out that Wordclay only does the formatting; the author is then responsible for signing up with Smashwords and uploading their own work.  This means you can determine your own price.  And at 85% of each sale, with proper marketing, you can make back your $75 investment and then some in no time.

Here are three reasons E-book publishing is important, which were sent out in a Wordclay email blast promoting this service:

1. Expand Your Audience: A growing number of people are using e-readers, smart phones and laptops to read e-books. Gain access to a wider range of gadget-loving readers by letting them decide when, where and how to read your book.

2. Unlock the Power of Online Marketing: Reach more readers with less effort by promoting your e-book or published book on social networks like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

3. Publish Quickly and Affordably: Through Smashwords, you can deliver your e-book to the masses instantly and without cost. And if formatting your e-book for cross-platform presentation is more work than you have the time, skill or patience to complete, our pros can do it for you through our E-Book Formatting service.