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One of the authors I do assistant work for is planning a Kickstarter campaign and so I decided to pick up this book as I knew hardly anything about kickstarter in general and almost nothing about how it works for books specifically. This book really helped me get a better idea of what kickstarter is, how it works and how authors can utilize it for selling their books.
This book helped me get familiar with a lot of terms around kickstarter and get a grip on all the ins and outs of the platform. There is a lot of tips and information about how to plan a campaign, how early to start and in what order to do everything. There is information about reward tiers, writing your sales copy, how to market your kickstarter and what to do after your kickstarter. As well as how to budget your campaign and how to fulfill orders afterwards. There are lots of tips from the authors that they learned running their own campaigns and it clear the authors have a lot of experience with kickstarter. It touches upon a lot of topics surrounding kickstarter and I learned a lot about this book.
Some of the most helpful chapters were the early ones for me that addressed why an author might want to do a kickstarter and to get into the mindset of why this works for authors and how this platform differs from selling your book on other places. I made a lot of notes and found this book contained a lot of helpful information. I enjoyed learning more about kickstarter and I finished this book feeling like I knew a lot more than when I started.
There were a few chapters later on that I felt didn't add as much value to me and some of the way the authors approached their newsletter didn't fit with my preferred way of handling this. There also was a chapter where they copied their messages to the backers, which I didn't find as useful as the authors just discussed in their own words already how the campaign had gone. This is mostly my personal preference and the rest of the book was very informative.
To summarize: I hardly knew anything about kickstarter and how to use the platform for selling books when I picked this book up. I thought this book was a very informative read and gives a lot of information and details about kickstarter and how to use it to sell books. All aspects of the process of running a campaign are addressed and I finished this book feeling a lot more knowledgeable about the topic and having a much better understanding of how kickstarter works for books specifically. There were a few chapters toward the end that I personally found less useful, but those chapters might be more helpful for others. I can definitely recommend this book to authors looking for know more about kickstarter and figure out whether this is something they want to give a try.
This book helped me get familiar with a lot of terms around kickstarter and get a grip on all the ins and outs of the platform. There is a lot of tips and information about how to plan a campaign, how early to start and in what order to do everything. There is information about reward tiers, writing your sales copy, how to market your kickstarter and what to do after your kickstarter. As well as how to budget your campaign and how to fulfill orders afterwards. There are lots of tips from the authors that they learned running their own campaigns and it clear the authors have a lot of experience with kickstarter. It touches upon a lot of topics surrounding kickstarter and I learned a lot about this book.
Some of the most helpful chapters were the early ones for me that addressed why an author might want to do a kickstarter and to get into the mindset of why this works for authors and how this platform differs from selling your book on other places. I made a lot of notes and found this book contained a lot of helpful information. I enjoyed learning more about kickstarter and I finished this book feeling like I knew a lot more than when I started.
There were a few chapters later on that I felt didn't add as much value to me and some of the way the authors approached their newsletter didn't fit with my preferred way of handling this. There also was a chapter where they copied their messages to the backers, which I didn't find as useful as the authors just discussed in their own words already how the campaign had gone. This is mostly my personal preference and the rest of the book was very informative.
To summarize: I hardly knew anything about kickstarter and how to use the platform for selling books when I picked this book up. I thought this book was a very informative read and gives a lot of information and details about kickstarter and how to use it to sell books. All aspects of the process of running a campaign are addressed and I finished this book feeling a lot more knowledgeable about the topic and having a much better understanding of how kickstarter works for books specifically. There were a few chapters toward the end that I personally found less useful, but those chapters might be more helpful for others. I can definitely recommend this book to authors looking for know more about kickstarter and figure out whether this is something they want to give a try.
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