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Your Own App - Custom Icon
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You get your own custom Authors App. Your App appears in the major Android tablet app stores - Amazon, NOOK, Google Play - with your own custom icon. Plus, when your readers and fans download your Authors App, they get your App icon with your name on their device. Your App is at their fingertips, right on the device they use to read your books. The best engagement and promotion ever available for an Author.
The Home screen is where Your App first opens. Your profile and your books are featured here. All of your books are actively linked for purchase. Your fans and readers just tap to purchase and you make sales.
What's New
Updates
The What's New screen lets you highlight your hottest and latest news right when your Authors App launches. Instead of the Home screen the What's New screen will show. Direct contact with your fans and readers and the best way ever to keep them up to speed with your news.
Your social media feeds flow right into your app. Your tweets from Twitter, your posts from Facebook, even your new entries on your blog - all available right in the app for your readers to stay up-to-date on what you're saying.
About
Your biography and promotional picture are right here so readers can get to know more about you.
Kindle books/Nook Books
Direct Purchase Links to Ebooks
Direct links to buy the ebooks you have available in the Amazon and Barnes & Noble ebook stores are available here in your app. Drive readers to not only your newest books, but also your full back catalog of titles.
amazon and Barnes & Noble
direct Purchase Links to Physical Books
@Amazon.com/@bn.com These screens in your app get your readers to your physical books - hardcover and paperback - available from the leading bookstores at amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. These and any other of your products all accessible at any time.
Events
List your book signings and other in-person events on this screen. This is also where you can put any online and virtual book tour information with direct links including URLs.
Trailers
Excerpts
The latest book video trailers go right here in the app and your reader can watch them in context with all of your other content. These can be videos for upcoming titles or other promotional trailers as well.
Put excerpts from current or forthcoming titles right here. Readers will know this is the place to find the latest gems from you.
Faves
Book clubs
Here you can recommend those other authors you'd suggest your readers explore. And other authors can include you in their list of Faves too.
Put any and all info you'd like to provide to those running book clubs with your books here. And use our dashboard to set up online book club discussions for you and your readers to share together.
Easy Access to All of Your Online Content
The Author Dashboard
The More tab gives your fans and readers unprecedentedly easy access to all of your online presence. With the tap of a finger your readers can see your website, blog, photos, and whatever else you have online. With such easy access to web-based content, your options for promoting are endless.
The Author Dashboard is your portal to manage your growth from Author to Brand!
Control Your App
Social Media Management
The Author Dashboard lets you make your App your own. Upload your images, manage your books, connect with your fans and readers like never before. Manage your events, trailers, book clubs and all of your online presence right from the Author Dashboard. It's the easiest way to grow your Brand as an Author.
Tweets
Posts
Blogs
@mentions
The Author Dashboard lets you manage your critical social media presence. You can login and update your Facebook and Twitter accounts in the Author Dashboard. Plus, you can monitor your @mentions and blog easily all at one convenient location.
Manage Your Presence in Authors 2.0
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To maximize your promotion and brand-building the Author Dashboard updates both your App and your presence in the Authors by WorldLive App. With your Author App you become a part of the largest Author promotion and branding ecosystem available on tablets. Don't just be an Author, become a Brand!