Reaching Out to Writers....Getting your book aired???

One of our stated aims as mardibooks is to democratise publishing using the power of the web.  We are foremost writers, good writers, with interesting stories to tell.  ...and we join a remarkable and huge talent pool of already established and struggling to establish itself creators, manipulators, artists...

The economy has impacted enormously on publishing and the cost of e-books is time, or opportunity cost, not hard cash.  Already the major publishing houses are diverting and re-directng their efforts to harness a low cost solution.  For every 100 actual hard copy books sold, Amazon sells 180 e-books. So how do we promote ours in the face of such fierce competition and marketing costs?


...And where does this leave the niche independents, the self-publishers and the writers' groups?
Since our launch in December we have been pleased with our successes on Amazon, reaching the top 8,000 rankings in some weeks with our books - not bad considering Amazon sells over 4,000,000 books...
We regularly blog and tweet and utilise media groups and support each other's, so that our reach grows exponentially by the number of writers we have as well as by the number of followers...

So how does this help YOU?
The web is a big space and harnessing the social networking media available is time-consuming and difficult on a budget.  Time zones, language barriers, search protocols are both an issue and a non-issue as web traffic is fickle and tends to fall into daily routine patterns.  Setting up scheduled messages for different markets and time-zones can over-come this to some extent, but the weight of traffic still means your message still reaches mostly arbitrary audiences.  Social media sites are continually updating their user tools to enable refined messaging to specific demographics, but ultimately what makes them successful is not just the desire to message, but the desire to join in.  The human need to participate and not be left out.  Interestingly it is that same human need which attracts readers to our books - to know we belong we are, oxymoronically, unique but ultimately not different!


So here it is...how we can help you...
Each month we would like to review your books, give you air space.  This coming month is home to Valentine's Day, so we would like to hear from any writers of fiction, non-fiction, romance.  Promote your books on our site.  By linking together your networks through the conduit of mardibooks, who knows what reach we can cover?