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Successful Self-Publishing On Kobo Writing Life With Tara Cremin
How can you reach more readers worldwide and sell more books on Kobo? What are the advantages to publishing direct with Kobo Writing Life? Tara Cremin gives her tips in today's show.
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Tara Cremin is the Senior Manager for Author Experience at Rakuten Kobo heading up the Kobo Writing Life team.
You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and full transcript below.
Show Notes
* Kobo's core principles and partnerships that enable you to reach readers worldwide
* The long-term view on the shift to digital reading, accelerated by the pandemic
* On Kobo’s (non-exclusive) subscription service, Kobo Plus
* The advantages of publishing directly with Kobo Writing Life
* Pricing tips for international sales
* Book marketing tips for Kobo
You can find Tara Cremin and the friendly KWL team at kobo.com/writinglife and on Twitter @KoboWritingLife. You can also check out the Kobo Writing Life Podcast.
Transcript of Interview with Tara Cremin
Joanna: Tara Cremin is the Senior Manager for Author Experience at Rakuten Kobo heading up the Kobo Writing Life team. Welcome, Tara.
Tara: Thanks, Joanna for having me. I'm excited to be here.
Joanna: It's great to talk about this stuff.
Tell us a bit more about you, and your background in writing, and bookselling, and publishing.
Tara: Sure. I'm originally from Ireland, I've been living in Canada for about eight years. My background has come from American literature. That's what I studied in university. After that, I moved to Canada wanting to live in a very large city, as I like to think of Ireland as one big small town.
I wanted the bigger city life. I've always been really interested in books and reading and bookselling. And when I came here, I was super interested in how books merged with technology. I traveled a little bit after university and read a lot of classics,