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How to Promote an Audiobook on Audio Thicket

We are excited to introduce the latest addition to the Written Word Media family - Audio Thicket! Audio Thicket is a promotion site dedicated to helping authors drive sales and redemptions of audio...

How to Measure KENP Read from Amazon Ads

Authors with books enrolled in Kindle Unlimited were long frustrated by Amazon Ads inability to report on the number of Kindle Edition Normalized Pages (KENP) Read generated by ads. Thankfully, in ...

How to Get A Book Series Page on Google Play

Series pages are a great way to showcase your entire book series in on place. Keep reading to learn how to set up a series page on Google Play, and click below to check out our blog posts focused o...

How to Get A Series Page on Apple Books

Series pages are a great way to showcase your entire book series in on place. Keep reading to learn how to set up a series page on Apple Books, and click below to check out our blog posts focused o...

Promoting Your Book Is Even Quicker and Easier

We recently rolled out an update to checkout on Written Word Media to make it even quicker and easier for you to promote your books. The Author and Publisher portal - the place you go to reserve pr...

How to Use a Short Story to Sell More Books

Short stories occupy a bit of an awkward niche in self-publishing. It can be hard to generate revenue for a single short story published on its own, but not many authors have so many short story id...

Series Promo Results: What To Expect

A few months ago we detailed successful strategies for promoting your series, and we highlighted the new and improved Freebooksy Series Promotion. In this article we share the results of all the Se...

We’re In This Together: Our Covid-19 Response

As we all face a new reality in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, we at Written Word Media are committed to supporting authors and publishers during this time. Here you can find the different initiat...