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Tag: Junk marketing

Junk Book Marketing: Book Fair “Representation”

A Pay to Play Bookstore Scheme: The Reading Glass Books

Should You Pay To Display Your Book At BookExpo? (Short Answer: No)

Junk Book Marketing: Pay-to-Play Magazines

Vanity Radio: Why You Should Think Twice Before Paying For an Interview

Publisher Alerts: Complaints at Month9 Books, Nonstandard Business Practices at Black Rose Writing

Universal Book Solutions: Anatomy of a Book-to-Screen Scam

From the Philippines, Not With Love: A Plague of Publishing, Marketing, and Fake Literary Agency Scams

Awards Profiteers: How Writers Can Recognize Them and Why They Should Avoid Them

Two Solicitation Bewares: Aimee Ann / Red Headed Book Lover Blog; Book Writing Inc.

Book Promotions International, or, How Not to Get Your Book Into a Library

Profit Engine: The Author Solutions Markup

Beware Social Media Snake Oil

A Marketing Pitch from Author Solutions

Solicitation Alert: Close-up TV News / Close-up Talk Radio

Global Talk Radio: How to Waste Money and Fail to Influence People

More Money-Wasting “Opportunities” For Writers

BookStoreMarketing.net: Beware Spam PR Services

Book Marketing Methods That Don’t Work

Book Fair Bewares

Guest Blog Post: Beware of Pay-To-Play TV Talk Shows

Alert: MyFreeRead.com Is Spamming Again

MyFreeRead.com: Not Quite What It Appears

Are You a Published Author? Now You Can Tell the World!

Postage Promotion

Another Interesting Promotion From AuthorHouse

Victoria Strauss — BEA Bewares

Jones Harvest Publishing Goes Hollywood!

Ways Not to Publicize Your Book: Spam Campaigns

AirLeaf: A Night to Remember

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