Just like ebook promotions don't do anything in a vacuum, share any new information with your followers and in your newsletter.
But since most eBook publishing involves authors whose chances of landing traditional media coverage is necessarily limited (for now, anyway), it's good to know that eBook promotion doesn't mean fewer book publicity opportunities.
Not exact matches
That said, I got more downloads from a one day
promotion with
Ebook Stage than I
did in a year on my own.
If you don't know how to make your book free in preparation for
promotion, see our How to Schedule KDP Free Days for an Amazon Kindle
eBook article.
Why don't we hear more about
eBook promotion?
Do not run an
ebook promotion without any reviews on your book.
Stay away from things the majority is
doing such as the trendy free
ebook promotions on Amazon.
If you want to
do a free
promotion, you're going to need to tell all of the different sites that feature free
ebooks about it.
None of the above has anything to
do with
eBook formats, marketing and
promotion.
So how
do you make your
ebook promotion stand out?
Authors, if you ever wonder where you should submit your
eBooks when
doing your free Kindle
promotion, you don't have to look any further than this list.
While the traditional publishing world was
doing its thing (the same old, same old thing, for the most part), self - published books (and that includes self - published
ebooks, by the way) have established their own strong track records and earned their own top - notch book
promotion opportunities.
Doing less maybe more when it comes to
ebook promotion.
So what's a book publicist, or an
eBook author, to
do when they want to find
eBook promotion opportunities and they can't find them in the usual places that were so friendly to traditional authors who needed media visibility for their traditional books?
Beyond that, all
promotion has cost is my time and effort: I guest blog, run social media
promotions,
do ebook giveaways, host online events, etc. to engage readers and get my name out there.
One of the book publicity tricks I've developed is to pitch the
eBook (if it's available along with a traditional book) to the venues for
eBook promotion that
do not consider traditional books.
An
eBook promotion, when
done properly, can really help boost exposure and sales for your book.
So you
did an
eBook promotion and didn't get a great number of downloads.
Figure out how to leverage your
eBook promotion or use it in conjunction with something else you're
doing (like to announce a new release).
Your goals are wrong: Why are you
doing an
eBook promotion?
Originally posted at BookGorilla.com Over at his Kindle Review blog Abhi has been
doing his usually fine job of following events in the Kindlesphere, and he turned his focus today on something we've been thinking about too: the effect of the Kindle Store's wildly popular Sunshine Deals
promotion on
ebook prices generally.
Even though the ad is specifically for a reduced price
ebook promotion, having nothing obviously to
do with the audiobook, the audiobook sales skyrocket.
eBook price
promotions are a great way to boost exposure, but if that's all you're
doing, that may be why it didn't work.
Aside from outright book
promotion,
ebook giveaways can also
do some pretty great things for your branding and bottom line:
Also, Kobo owns OverDrive — the
ebook distributor that's critical to the U.S. library market — and has an
ebook retail partnership with Flipkart, the most significant book retailer in India; those affiliations can be very helpful if your books
do well and catch the attention of Kobo's marketers and
promotions managers.
If you decide to
do a free
promotion, know that despite the Amazon muscle behind a free
eBook, you still have to promote it on your own, too.
While hybris
does not limit itself to the
promotion of
ebook content, adapting its model to the needs of all kinds of digital content providers, hybris
does allow for a much more personalized product from the end to the user, lending itself well to the needs of
ebook development.
Basically, my strategy for a $ 0.99
promotion is the same as what I
do for a free
eBook — tell as many people as possible.
If you don't want to spend a fortune, try these free
ebook promotion sites.
I won't give the Amazon link to my
eBook here, because I don't want to get bludgeoned for self -
promotion, but if you're thinking about writing for this site, this
eBook will propel you in the right direction so you can start making money.
This means that authors can't rely on the «free
ebook downloads» sites to
do their
promotions, they'll need to
do their own.
Because of my previous experiences with the Kindle Free
eBook Promotions, I didn't spend a ton of time creating these posts.
Don't forget you can also use pricing as a promotional tool for your
ebook, through low - price special
promotions and even periods where you offer your book for free.
Be aware that these sites don't promise you
promotion, so don't get snippy if your
ebook doesn't appear.
They are offering up to 75 % off bestselling
ebooks from every genre (don't forget that Google is running a 75 % off Cyber Monday weekend sale as well, and Amazon is price - matching many of the titles from both
promotions).
And, for those who are interested in book
promotion, publicity, and marketing, but who can not afford to hire a book publicist and have the time to invest in a
do - it - yourself compaign, I offer an affordable
eBook called How to Market, Sell, Distribute, and Promote Your Book: Critical, Hard - to - Find Information for Authors and Publishers.
The third option
does not allow free
ebook promotions; if you want to sell your
ebook for free, you must select the first option.
There's no reason why a publisher can't
do a
promotion offering one or more free
ebooks with a hardcopy purchase, or a bundle where you pay say half the price of the standalone
ebook price extra to get the two.
Just when it appeared that Amazon had stopped
doing their monthly free Whispersync for Voice audiobook and
ebook combination, a new title went up yesterday, considerably later in the month than usual, but it's good to see that the
promotion is still ongoing.
Amazon can undercut its competitors on price because it can factor in earnings from future
ebook sales, it can sell a lot of Kindles from Amazon.com and not have to share a cut with retailers, and it doesn't have to spend as much on marketing and
promotions.
So if you're planning a
promotion, how
do you discount your
ebook on Barnes & Noble?
What
do you
do promotion wise for your
ebooks?
We
do not accept preorders for our
ebook promotions.
eBook Promotions: While to some degree this falls under the eBook pricing and flexibility it's still worth mentioning that some publishers will not let you do discounts or freebie book promotions
Promotions: While to some degree this falls under the
eBook pricing and flexibility it's still worth mentioning that some publishers will not let you
do discounts or freebie book
promotions promotions on Amazon.
Due to the large number of variables with any given
ebook promotion, we
do not guarantee specific performance results, sales, downloads, etc..
We measure success in a variety of ways: engagement such as people entering our contests and replying to our posts on Facebook, Twitter, and our blog; increases in fans and followers; online mentions of our titles; increased web traffic to our website and blog; and increased sales — for example, when we
do ebook price
promotions, we measure whether or not we sold more
ebooks at the promotional price.
Though their
ebook promotion pricing is very competitive, being between $ 25 and $ 110 depending on your
promotion, they
do have a list of
Promotion Requirements that they adhere to strictly, which includes no erotica, as well as the requirement that your book is over 125 pages (except for Children's Stories or Cook Books).
Yes friends, this is where I tell you about a «Kindle Free Giveaway»
promotion that I
did — one involving writing five
eBooks, performing a ton of setup and headache to get everything formatted correctly, and time spent submitting the giveaway to the various «free
eBook» sites in advance.
They also offer free
ebook promotion if your book is on sale or free, but submission to that list
does not guarantee placement.
I'm in the second day of my free
promotion for my
ebook Sportsman's Bet and I
did pretty much everything you mentioned, plus I contacted several author friends of mine to ask for their help in promoting it.