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This is a really diffcult post. So apologies for what follows. Having looked at your books I really can’t see anything in those books that would tempt me to make a purchase. The problem isn’t with the books, it is just that they don’t tick any of the boxes that would make me want to buy one. So assuming the problem is with me, rather than with your books, we need to think why aren’t they selling. What have you done to market your books? Putting them in the Blurb BookStore isn’t going to generate sales. I tend to think of the Blurb bookstore as an eclectic book shop down a side street off the main drag. Nobody is going to stumble into the bookstore and buy a book (or very few). There has to be something that tempts them to go down that side street and enter the book store. To make that happen there needs to be some marketing of your book to potential customers. Who are you aiming the books at? What have you done that would make that potential audience aware that your books exist? Have you identified potential markets? Have you targetted those markets with e-mail, blogs, adverts to make them aware of your book? Can I suggest that you make a search of the forums for "marketing" and study what others have done to promote their books. Again, it isn’t necessarily a comment on your books saleability, but more a suggestion that you need to target your marketing efforts at more explicit potential customers than hoping that people browsing the blurb Bookstore will jump in and buy one. …..Tony
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