• Contact
  • Account
    • Become an Affiliate
    • Sign Up for Deals

    • Login
Book Cave: Authors and Publisher promotional services and features
Book Cave
Authors & Publishers
Connecting the RIGHT readers with the RIGHT books
  • About
    • Book Cave Reviews
    • Who We Are
      • Mission
      • In the Works
      • Book Cave Logos
      • Meet the Ratings
    • Privacy Center
      • Privacy & Terms
      • Your Privacy Rights
    • Affiliate Program Agreement
    • Trademarks
  • Current Deals
    • Deals from Retailers
    • Book Cave Direct Deals
      • Exclusive Ebook Downloads
      • Free Group Deals
    • Giveaways
      • Win a Free Ereader!
      • Last Giveaway Winner
      • Past Winners
  • Readers
    • Sign Up
    • Rated Books Database
    • Rate a book I’ve read
    • Browse Author Pages
    • Reader FAQ
    • Reader Blog
    • Giveaways
      • Win a Free Ereader!
      • Last Giveaway Winner
      • Past Winners
  • Authors
    • How It Works
    • Our Services
      • Feature Your Book
      • Group Features
      • Subscriber Magnet Services
      • MBR Ratings
      • Create an Author Page
    • Submission Guidelines
    • Pricing
    • Submit a Book
    • Create Account
    • Become an Affiliate
    • Author Resources
      • Author Blog
      • Author FAQ
      • Promotion Tips
      • Cover Guide Calculator
  • Book Swag
  • Contact
  • Account
    • Become an Affiliate
    • Sign Up for Deals

    • Login
  • About
    • Book Cave Reviews
    • Who We Are
      • Mission
      • In the Works
      • Book Cave Logos
      • Meet the Ratings
    • Privacy Center
      • Privacy & Terms
      • Your Privacy Rights
    • Affiliate Program Agreement
    • Trademarks
  • Current Deals
    • Deals from Retailers
    • Book Cave Direct Deals
      • Exclusive Ebook Downloads
      • Free Group Deals
    • Giveaways
      • Win a Free Ereader!
      • Last Giveaway Winner
      • Past Winners
  • Readers
    • Sign Up
    • Rated Books Database
    • Rate a book I’ve read
    • Browse Author Pages
    • Reader FAQ
    • Reader Blog
    • Giveaways
      • Win a Free Ereader!
      • Last Giveaway Winner
      • Past Winners
  • Authors
    • How It Works
    • Our Services
      • Feature Your Book
      • Group Features
      • Subscriber Magnet Services
      • MBR Ratings
      • Create an Author Page
    • Submission Guidelines
    • Pricing
    • Submit a Book
    • Create Account
    • Become an Affiliate
    • Author Resources
      • Author Blog
      • Author FAQ
      • Promotion Tips
      • Cover Guide Calculator
  • Book Swag
Promotion & Marketing,Social Media
20 Mar 2018 at 09:50 PM PDT
Updated 3 years ago

How to Promote Your Ebook on LinkedIn

By Catia Shattuck

Advertisement

JutohWe at Book Cave prefer Jutoh for ebook creation because it gives us more control than most other ebook software out there, while still maintaining a friendly interface.

Browse by topic

All Posts Author Pages Author Website Cover Design Ebook Formatting Grammar & Punctuation Mailing Lists Promotion & Marketing Publishing Tips Social Media Technical Tips Tutorials Writing for Authors

Promote your ebook on LinkedIn

I'm a book wyrm
We hope you enjoy reading this post!
If you’re like us and love to read, then click here to score tons of free and discounted ebooks.

We recommend that, as an author, you set up a LinkedIn profile. Check out these reasons why you should have a LinkedIn profile and how you can promote your ebook on LinkedIn.

But don’t worry about it taking as much time as some of the other social media outlets. A LinkedIn profile is low maintenance.

Benefits of a LinkedIn Profile

1. You can fill it out and forget—just update it once a year. It is very low maintenance.

2. Links from LinkedIn to your online content are counted by Google; Facebook links aren’t. That means that including your links in your profile makes them more likely to show up in a Google search.

3. Having a profile looks professional.

4. You can use LinkedIn to find professional editors, designers, beta readers, and reviewers, and they can find you. You can also connect with other authors.

Tips on How to Promote Your Ebook on LinkedIn

1. Fill out your profile

Add your industry, your current job title (this should be “Author”), skills, education, and summary. You can include relevant courses you took in college, and any certifications or awards you have earned. This will take some time, but once you’ve filled it out, you’ll never need to do it again! All you’ll need to do is update it at least once a year.

2. Add each of your books as a job position.

A great way to promote your ebook on LinkedIn is to put the book in as its own job. The Title would be something like “Author” and the Company would be the name of your book. Next, put in the dates you worked on the book. In the Description, list a few bragging points about your book and the work you put into it, include a short description of the book, and add a few short reviews from well-known magazines, people, editors, or authors (not just some random Amazon reviewer).

add a book as a position on linkedIn

At the bottom, you can add a link to a page on your website where viewers can purchase the book. Also upload the image of the book cover and, if you have one, the book trailer. Additionally, you can link to a sample chapter of the book or a Q&A session about the book on your website.

If you have a lot of published books, it may be easier to put in each series as a job position instead.

3. Choose a good profile picture.

Find or take a picture of yourself. Make it professional and friendly; what works best is a headshot of your smiling, well-groomed face.

4. Link to websites on your profile.

In addition to linking your Twitter profile, LinkedIn allows you to link three websites to your profile. We recommend using those links to link to your website, your Facebook page, and your author page on an ebook site (like Amazon or Google).

5. Fill out the summary.

Use first-person and a conversational tone. Try to use key words that relate to what you do.

6. Build your connections

Add family, friends, and other authors to your connections. Ask them to endorse your skills that they feel they can endorse and do the same for them.

7. Join author groups on LinkedIn.

Through these groups, you can talk to fellow authors to receive and offer advice, or exchange books to beta read for each other.

8. Post when convenient.

Don’t worry too much about posting updates. If you write a blog post that is a helpful guide for readers or authors, pop over to LinkedIn and post an update that contains a link to the blog post. This is a great and easy way to build trust with your connections.

How do you promote your ebook on LinkedIn? We’d love to hear any experiences in the comments below.

If you’d like to learn more about Book Cave promotions and receive more writing tips, please enter your email below and click the “Learn More” button to receive our author newsletter.

Copyright 2018 by Book Cave
Reuse notice: Non-commercial users, feel free to print out “How to Promote Your Ebook on LinkedIn” for personal use or give to friends, share online, or make a meme of, as long as you attribute and link back to this post. Commercial users, you may share a link to this post or quote a short excerpt from it with attribution and a link to this site, but you may not use this post in its entirety. Thank you for caring about copyright.

Avatar for Catia Shattuck
Catia Shattuck

I am a copyeditor and a typesetter of print books, and have been editing and typesetting (using InDesign) for twelve years. As the executive editor at Book Cave, I enjoy helping authors be successful, and I only get interrupted a little bit (ha!) by my cute, rambunctious one-year-old.


Share this authorpost

Keep Reading

helpful tools for authors: sites and apps for authors

Helpful Tools for Writers: Sites and Apps for Authors

We’ve discovered a few sites and apps for writers that we think you’ll love too! These helpful tools for writers can make writing easier and can help organize your writing life.

tips for writing fanfiction

13 Tips for Writing Fanfiction

For many, writing fanfiction is a completely foreign concept. Perhaps you have no idea where to start, or you’ve tried dipping your toes in and have become confused by the strange lingo used in the genre. Never fear, because here are 13 tips to help you write better fanfiction!

activities to help you unwind

28 Activities to Help You Unwind when You Need a Break from Writing

When you need a break from writing, here are some great activities to help you unwind.

Hello fellow book lover! We hope you are enjoying this post.
If you want free, content-rated ebooks that you can download straight from your favorite retailer, just sign up for our free newsletter
Sign me up!

Leave a Reply

Cancel


Comments

  1. Reuben
    Reuben • 1 year ago

    Helpful article

    Reply
  2. Worries
    Worries • 2 years ago

    Talking of winning, everyone loves a chance to win. Giving away your book as a prize gets people interested and talking about your book.

    Reply
  3. APKun
    APKun • 2 years ago

    The first impression is the last impression is a saying that even applies to Facebook pages. You should create a tab for your eBook to give your fans an idea of who you are as an author and what your book has to offer.

    Reply
  4. Homerenovates
    Homerenovates • 2 years ago

    Have you used Facebook for promoting a digital product? Can you suggest additional ways to promote an eBook on social media? We’d love to hear your thoughts.

    Reply
  5. John Edward Nickerson
    John Edward Nickerson • 3 years ago

    Thank you for your post. I am a self publishing author who is about to publish 7 books. I am now looking for ways of promoting my upcoming releases. I am looking forward to putting your advice into practice. Oh and since there is nothing wrong with a little self promotion in comments, my website is wearewisethinkers.blogspot.com. So check out and subscribe to my website to keep up with my book publishing notifications. Hope to read more from you, since I am very new to the self publishing world of books.

    Reply
  6. Gordon
    Gordon • 3 years ago

    Add each of your books as a job position. Brilliant advice and the rest of your article is laced with wise words 🙂

    Reply
  7. Bernard Mutai
    Bernard Mutai • 3 years ago

    Hi Ms Shattuck, Thank you for the helpful info.

    Reply
  8. David Fisher
    David Fisher • 3 years ago

    Re Point 2 in your article above: “Add each of your books on Linkedin as a job position.”
    Hi, You suggest this as a good way to promote ebooks, only you don’t explain how to do this! Pls mail me some instructions as I’m new to this. Many thanks, David

    Reply
    • Catia Shattuck
      Catia Shattuck David Fisher • 3 years ago

      David, I’ve edited the post to give better instructions on how to do this, including a screenshot. Let me know if you need more details!

      Reply
Receive free ebooks on Amazon Kindle from Book Cave
Receive free ebooks on Apple Books from Book Cave
Receive free ebooks on Google Play from Book Cave
Receive free ebooks on Kobo from Book Cave
Receive free ebooks on Nook from Book Cave
Receive free ebooks on Smashwords from Book Cave
Book Cave
Book Cave Direct
My Book Ratings
MY BOOK RATINGS
Connecting the RIGHT readers with the RIGHT books
  • Sitemap
  • Contact Us
  • Free ebooks
© Book Cave - All the rights reserved!