Book marketing and book selling can feel pretty overwhelming. You want to sell more books. Of the hundreds of ways to generate book sales, which ones will be effective—for your title, your market, your budget, and your own personal style?

1,052,803 books were published in the US in 2009—the first year to see more than a million separate titles, almost double from just one year earlier. That's two-thousand, eight hundred, eighty-four new books every single day of the year. Yikes!

The number of books published goes up almost every year. In 2008, it was 560,626. In 2007, it was 411,422. As recently as 2004, it was just 181,189—less than half of the number three years later, and only 20 percent of the number just five years later. In 2002, just two years earlier, only 119,123 books were published. As recently as 1990, the number was only 46,736.

In other words, an author or publisher releasing a book today has to work six times as hard to get noticed as authors and publishers did just a few short years ago in 2004—22 times as hard as an author who published in 1990.

Fortunately, you have a roadmap: Grassroots Marketing for Authors and Publishers, from award-winning author Shel Horowitz. And many of the strategies it lays out cost little or nothing. The 6x9, $24.95 paperback book is 290 pages of solid information to help any book succeed.

Direct orders from this website (or by phone, 413-586-2388, 8 am to 10 pm US Eastern time) include a big package of extra bonuses, including seven additional chapters as well as a number of goodies by other industry experts (click here to see them)

Marketing your books can be a full-time endeavor; make sure you spend your time and money wisely! Read on; you'll learn how to be an effective book marketer, and to watch your book sales—and your reputation—grow.

Click here if you've already written and published your book Click here if you're a publisher of more than one author Click here if you have written or mostly written your book and you're trying to figure out how to get it published and marketed Click here if you have an idea for a book but haven't written it yet Shel is also available for individual marketing consulting and copywriting: marketing plans, book cover copy, press releases, and more—all aimed at getting your book noticed in a crowded market. Please click here to learn more (on our sister site, FrugalMarketing.com)

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