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Dale L. Roberts
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Resource5 Ideas for Using Free Audible Book Promo Codes
Dale revisits a previous video about free ACX audiobook promo codes, noting ACX provides 25 promotional codes when you publish to …
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ResourceHow to Get Free ACX Promotional Codes
Dale Roberts explains how to get free ACX promotional codes after a policy change he says ACX made with no notice. Authors who …
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ResourceACX Sales: How to GET MORE Audiobook SALES
Dale shares a simple, overlooked way to increase ACX audiobook sales: fix your categories. Prompted by a tip from a narrator of one …
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ResourceBecome a Bestselling Author on Amazon KDP in 30 Days
Provenance note: the transcript track for this video is in Arabic (verified by reading the actual text, which is coherent Arabic …
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ResourceACX Review: The Pros and Cons of Audiobook Creation Exchange
Dale reviews Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX), the platform for distributing audiobooks to Audible, Amazon and iTunes. Citing ACX …
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ResourceAmazon Best Seller Book: You WON'T BELIEVE What Became #1
Dale Roberts recounts a blog post by professional ghostwriter, editor, and book coach James Ranson about Brent Underwood's book …
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ResourceUsing Google Images for Commercial Use Or In Books
Dale Roberts warns self-publishers against lifting images from Google Images for use in books or on covers. He explains that most …
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ResourceAmazon KDP: How to Publish a Permafree Book on Amazon
Provenance: the transcript track is in Arabic; summarized here in English from that track. Dale explains how to make a book …
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Resource4 Reasons to Make Your eBook Free on Amazon Kindle
Dale gives four reasons to make an ebook free on Amazon Kindle. First, expand the brand: longevity comes from an author brand, and a …
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Resource4 Strategies of Video Marketing for Books
Dale outlines ways to promote a book or author brand through video. First, on-camera video: he notes he was mentioned in an article …
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Resource4 Book Promotion Strategies Through Your Website
Dale outlines four strategies for promoting books through your own website, without needing to be an SEO or web-building expert. …
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ResourceHow to Promote Your Kindle eBook | 5 Book Marketing Strategies
Dale shares five free ways to promote a Kindle ebook that cost time rather than money, stressing the list is not exhaustive. First, …
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ResourceHow to Write a Nonfiction Book Description
Dale lays out a six-part structure for a nonfiction book description that sells, rather than a run-of-the-mill summary. First, the …
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ResourceBook Length: How Long Should a Book Be?
Dale Roberts argues there is no universal ideal book length and rejects the old self-publishing rule he attributes to earlier …
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Resource5 Weird Kindle Publishing Niches in 2017
As a lighter follow-up to a previous video on five highly profitable and competitive Kindle publishing niches, Dale shares five …
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ResourceHow I Got My KDP Account Suspended
Dale tells the story of how his KDP account was suspended after he gamed Kindle Unlimited page reads. He explains the old KDP Select …
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ResourceSelf Publishing Interview with Ghostwriter Tim Knox
Dale interviews Tim Knox — best-selling author, serial entrepreneur, syndicated newspaper columnist, comedian, speaker, and talk …
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ResourceKDP Select Review: The Pros & Cons of Amazon Exclusivity
In this older Self-Publishing with Dale video, Dale reviews KDP Select, Amazon's program that places enrolled ebooks in Kindle …
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ResourceUntold Truth of the Amazon KDP Best Seller
Dale Roberts argues that the Amazon Kindle Best Seller rank is largely a myth that new self-publishers misunderstand. He notes that …
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Resource5 Highly Profitable & Competitive Kindle Publishing Niches
Dale looks at the opposite end of the spectrum from untapped niches: five highly profitable but highly competitive Kindle publishing …
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Resource5 Untapped Niches on Amazon KDP
Dale follows up his earlier video on popular, lucrative Kindle niches — now highly competitive — with five untapped Kindle …
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ResourceHiring a GhostWriter: Unethical or Acceptable?
Dale Roberts examines whether hiring a ghostwriter is unethical or acceptable, especially for self-publishers who have more money …
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ResourceHTML Book Description: How to Make Book Descriptions Great
Dale follows up his earlier HTML book description video with two free online tools for authors who cannot afford conversion software …
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ResourceHow to Make HTML for Amazon Book Description
Provenance note: the transcript track is in Arabic, summarized faithfully in English here. Dale argues that after an author has a …
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