Geoff Lawson asked Ann Werner:

Hi Anne, I was interested in your comments regarding setting up a chapter to read (with Links) on Facebook. That would be a good trick but I'm not a computer guru - how do you do that? Regards, Geoff Lawson.

Ann Werner First thing you do is upload a picture of the book cover (I'll tell you why later). Then I go to the copy of the book I uploaded to Create Space and copy the first chapter and paste it into my Facebook status. Then I add the links (you can shorten them by going to bitly.com so they are a mile long). I usually do an Amazon link first, since they are the #1 source of sales, then a Barnes and Noble link, then a Smashwords link. I also include that the title is available on iBooks but there is no link I could find for that.

The reason you do the cover picture first is if you don't, then one of the links will wind up being your featured pic and will take whomever is reading the post to that link. So if you have a Barnes and Nobel person who has a Nook, but your link is Amazon, if they click the pic, it'll go straight to Amazon. With the separate links, it saves people time from having to look for the book on whatever site where they purchase their books.

Here's one of my Facebook posts and what a shortened bitly link looks like: http://on.fb.me/1TT5jM6

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