new free site to help authors & publishers promote books

If you’re an author, book publicist, or publisher, this may interest you. There’s a new site to help authors and publishers promote their books–fReado.com.

They say: “Free Online Book Marketing Technology for Authors

• Reach your target audience on Facebook, blogs and over 60 other social networks & bookmarking sites
  
• Tell them where your book is available
  
• Persuade them to read it by allowing immediate preview of your book extract
  

It looks pretty good to me, though I haven’t yet explored it all. I did start the sign up process, though, and that, too, looks easy and enticing:
1. Sign-up
2. Upload book extract
3. Add details about yourself and your book
4. Share your book on facebook and on blogs

May 22nd, 2009