Length7h 29m
About this audiobook
A step-by-step guide to finding real readers in a crowded book market.
You wrote the book. You pressed publish. It is on the store, on the shelf, in the subscription library, on the review site with its empty star row, and almost nothing happens. This book starts there, because its author has more than seventy titles published and for about nine months sold nothing to anyone he had not met. He measured it: 235 visitors a month, 12 clicks on a buy button, zero sales. Then he changed one thing, and four days later a stranger bought a book.
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics, Self-Help
Length7 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 6, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Published Doesn’T Mean Discovered
2No, People Haven’T Stopped Reading
3The Eight-Step Reader Journey
4Part Two
5Who Exactly Are You Writing For?
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6Stop Trying To Promote 100 Books
7Your Cover Gets About Three Seconds
8The Five Things Selling Your Book Before Your Writing Can
9Part Three
10Stop Asking Strangers To Buy Something
11The First-Chapter Test
12It Does Not Tell You About Chapter Twelve, And A Book Can Open Well And Fall
13Ten Readers Are More Valuable Than Ten Thousand Impressions
14Part Four
15Nobody Followed You To See Advertisements
16Fiction: Sell The Question, Not The Product
17Nonfiction: Solve Something First
18Turn One Book Into Thirty Posts
19Part Five
20Congratulations, You’Ve Published A Book. Now Everybody Wants Your Money
21Reader Opportunity Or Author Solicitation?
22Part Six
23Followers Aren’T Really Yours
24Give Readers A Reason To Join
25The Second Book Is Easier Than The First
26Part Seven
27Likes Aren’T Readers
28Find The Leak
29Part Eight
30Part Nine
31Your First Ten Matter
32Don’T Confuse Silence With Rejection
33The Store Page Is Not Open. Nothing In The Sales Report Has Changed By Enough Part 1
34The Store Page Is Not Open. Nothing In The Sales Report Has Changed By Enough Part 2
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