Using Goodreads To Help You Sell Books

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One of the most important things if you have written a book will be that you are able to figure out the things you can do to help the book sell well (and this is true regardless of whether you are published by a major publishing house or a small press, or are self-published!), as a book is unlikely to sell itself without a bit of help from the author; there are a lot of different ways by which you can go about promoting your book if you are in this position, but one of the best places for promoting your book is Goodreads - which is a social network for readers - especially if you know how best to use Goodreads to your advantage!

Setting yourself up as a "book expert" on your own Goodreads page is the first thing you should do - not only rating all the books you have read in the past, but also taking the time to write reviews of as many of these books as you can; when you have reviews of lots of books, people will be more likely to start following your reviews, and as more and more people follow your reviews, more and more people will try to find out more about you - and will end up looking into your book!

As is the case with any social network through which you are attempting to promote yourself, interacting with others on Goodreads will be an important part of your success as well; when people comment on your reviews or on the books you have read, make sure you comment back - and after you have read a new book, look around for others who have read (and written reviews) of this same book, and leave comments of your own.

And of course, getting others to "promote" your book for you is one of the best things of all that you can do, and Goodreads gives you a great opportunity for this, as it allows readers to recommend their favorite books to others. Try to get those who read your book to recommend it to others who they think will enjoy it, and watch as the word about your book begins to spread further and further!