There are plenty
of eBook promotion sites to help get the word out — some paid, some free.
Digital press releases are becoming an important part
of the ebook promotion process.
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A great example for
you of ebook promotion and marketing in action.
Below is a regularly updated database
of ebook promotion sites with all the information you need to know about each one, including application fee, possible upgrade options, and book requirements.
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of ebook promotion websites here) but is there anything that will work like a «magic bullet»?
Here is a complete list
of Ebook promotion sites and their requirements.
Kobo has announced a variety
of eBook promotions for the month of August.
I'm seeing this a lot in the way
of eBook promotions.
For example, I'm a big proponent
of eBook promotions, I think indie authors need to be doing these at minimum once a quarter.
Not exact matches
In addition, a special Father's Day
promotion offers a free sleepcover for the Arc, and Workman is offering an exclusive Kobo
eBook edition
of Jessica's Hagy's How to Be Interesting, with How to Be Interesting After You Graduate: A Digital Short as an extra chapter at the end.
Workman promo offers free holiday recipe sampler to anyone who sets up a Kobo
eBook account through an ABA member bookstore between October 15 and November 12; Kobo to run 48 - hour sale on select group
of eBooks, starting October 19; BookWeb adds Kobo
promotions calendar
«We will have sole discretion in determining all marketing and
promotion related to the sale
of your
eBook through NOOK Press,»
This unique
promotion, which is hosted at http://www.unusualpromotion.com marks the beginning
of a turning point in the Book 2.0 evolution with launch
of the Kindle
eBook reader in 2007.
The Center
of Artificial Imagination, Inc., a leading publisher based in San Francisco, is running a kindle
ebook promotion that is the first
of its kind — they are giving everyone who purchases the Kindle edition
of the Amazon memoir Inside the Giant Machine: An Amazon.com Story the print version
of the book for free.
Regarding the impact
of the Affiliate changes on Free
ebook promotions, many
of them were receiving only a very small commission
of their overall income from clicks to Amazon for free books.
In addition to the concerns already listed above, I'm cringing at wording like: «We will have the sole discretion in determining all marketing and
promotion related to the sale
of your
eBook through NOOK Press.....
Please see our
ebook promotion section, which has a variety
of paid options.
There are dozens
of book
promotion sites out there, some massive like Bookbub, others small like
Ebook - soda.
Many
of the free
eBooks here are only free for a limited time, mostly as special
promotions, so download them while they are still available.
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.
The price
of your
ebook can be altered throughout your marketing process to coincide with
promotions.
One way
of finding and connecting with new readers seems pretty obvious to me:
ebook promotion services.
You will then be presented with an «ever - growing» list
of sites that will list your Kindle
eBook on their website during your book
promotion.
On this screen you will be presented with a very simple calendar which corresponds to the dates
of your
promotion for your Kindle
ebook.
Every day we list free books from Amazon automatically, but if you really want to make the most
of your free
promotion days and get more downloads than ever, we now offer a range
of ways to further promote your
eBook on DailyFreeBooks.com Have your book featured with a gold highlight at the top
of the freebies list.
In return, Amazon makes the
ebook available in their lending library, paying authors a percentage
of fees allocated, and also allows authors to initiate free
ebook give - away
promotions.
None
of the above has anything to do with
eBook formats, marketing and
promotion.
In November, I ran a smaller
ebook promotion for A Storm
of Stories and garnered 3,468 free downloads and more reviews.
We offer
ebook submission for authors, a large and fully searchable bookstore
of free and discounted books and a host
of book
promotion services.
You are solely responsible for the marketing and
promotion of your
eBook, for compliance with any applicable laws, regulations or rules in connection with such marketing and
promotion and for your participation in blogs, social media or any other marketing forums and outlets, whether in print, on line, or in person.
When an
ebook sells for $ 1 to $ 6, and the AVERAGE
ebook sells a few hundred copies (or even a few thousand) where's the money for development in addition to: design, additional content such as illustration, audio or video, editing, a teeny bit
of overhead, royalties, and
promotion?
After discussing tips on productivity, BookBub, and bursts
of promotion, they took on the latest in publishing news including Nook reporting errors, Amazon's plans for India,
ebook tax laws, artistic freedom, and using your backlist.
Most authors find this
promotion highly effective, since it's going to a list
of people actively looking for new
ebooks to read or purchase.
Tony, I love how you turned your foray into
ebook publishing and
ebook promotion from a tale
of woe into a tale
of wow.
You have two options here: request to get your
eBook mentioned on the date
of your
promotion without paying for it (a shot in the dark, perhaps), or pay for a guaranteed spot (if available).
The biggest and most influential
promotion service, Bookbub.com, is a subscription service that sends email to millions
of readers about
eBook specials.
The best way to build this is to have a free
promotion on your
ebook (or even better, have a book permafree), and in the very front
of it have a graphic leading people to sign up for your mailing list.
This
promotion meant wide spread exposure to a targeted audience
of ebook readers who were interested in my writing genre.
Ironically, most
of his takeaways are things that weren't unknown to anyone paying attention a year ago, including the value
of an email list; the importance
of an author's platform; the increasingly out -
of - whack signal: noise ratio in the market; print as premium product; the power
of free
promotions combined with targeted marketing; and, perhaps the most obvious,
ebooks have a long way to go before they replace print.
But here's a secret strategy to turbo - charge your book giveaway
promotion: when you offer your book for free, contact a shit - ton (a lot)
of sites that promote Free Kindle
Ebooks and let them know your book is available for free.
And the
ebook reader is a lousy platform for discovery and
promotion of new titles (what a missed chance).
Select subscribers receive a 70 % royalty on all
ebooks sold plus a variety
of other benefits like the free
promotion option.
Your pool
of potential readers is limited if you're still conducting exclusively traditional book
promotion campaigns and ignoring social networking; producing articles, podcasts, and book trailers; syndicating your blog; using your Web site to create an online community; distributing newsletters electronically to those on your mailing list; publishing
eBooks to offer free peeks at your book's content or to gain readers who might potentially get interested enough in your topic to buy your book (or, perhaps, to hire you); and so forth.
In this week's episode
of the podcast I talk to Myke about the upcoming launch
of A is for Angelica and how Amazon have chosen it as one
of their 100
ebooks for # 2.99 summer
promotion.
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.
Uses HTML code to include links to website, email list, newsletter in
eBooks for
promotion of author
As more and more writers turn to self - publishing, they're going with a platform that can provide a wide variety
of distribution channels and the opportunity for low - cost
ebook gifting and
promotion.
As authors and publishers clamor to help their titles be found in an ever growing
ebook market, one source
of promotion and increased revenue has come in the form
of ebook bundling.