FastPencil Launches Affiliate Marketing Program

CAMPBELL, Calif. — March 3, 2010 — Bloggers and community sites with an audience compelled to author a book now have the ability to earn money while providing readers a powerful free service that aligns perfectly with their interests. The FastPencil (www.fastpencil.com) authoring and publishing service gives authors full control of their content, price, distribution and sales activity, making the company’s Affiliate Marketing Program a perfect match for any community site or blog focused on authoring and publishing.

“As a writing coach and an author I am very excited about FastPencil’s Affiliate program because people come to me all the time for advice on the best route to getting published,” said Joel Orr, author and America’s Empowering Book Coach. “FastPencil simplifies an often time-consuming, costly and laborious book authoring process and provides authors an efficient way to get published. The affiliate program helps people like me build my community by offering them something unique.”

Affiliates earn a 4% referral fee for book production, sale of books, and any author services revenue generated by a referred customer. A variety of standard ad tiles are provided, and an affiliate dashboard makes it easy to monitor referred users, royalties and earnings.

Availability
The FastPencil Affiliate Program is available at http://www.fastpencil.com/affiliates.

FastPencil Features:

• Select from a variety of book templates
• Seamless collaboration built into sophisticated online writing tool
• Publish in print and eBook formats supported by the iPhone reader, Kindle and soon the Apple iPad
• Distribute to thousands of online retailers including Amazon and Barnes & Noble
• Flexible content upload through blog to book or direct PDF to publish
• Expand readership through Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, AOL, Yahoo and MSN
• Capture inspiration from anywhere with a free mobile authoring app for iPhone
• Use professional concierge services including consulting, design services and formatting
• Integrated self-publishing wizard for step-by-step assistance

About FastPencil
FastPencil is leveraging the disruptive trends of self-publishing, social media, print-on-demand and eBook distribution to deliver a new unified online service that streamlines the book publishing process offering more control and higher margins for authors. The FastPencil writing and publishing service enables authors to create books online, collaborate, publish and distribute from one engaging, simple, cost-effective solution. For more information please visit FastPencil.com.

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