When you’re putting together a new book marketing plan, you may be interested in trying new promotional tools to accomplish your goals. BookBub offers several book marketing tools for our partners to promote their books, and each option has its own benefits. Whether you’re looking to increase a book’s revenue, reach hundreds of new readers, or just start building your following on BookBub, this guide can help you determine which option might be your best bet!
Featured Deals
If you already have a published full-length book with an established platform, a Featured Deal can help you reach millions of power readers.
What they are: Featured Deals let you promote deeply discounted ebooks to our highly engaged audience. During a Featured Deal, we promote a book in the daily email we send to our millions of members, and we also feature it on BookBub.com. Our curated deals are hand-selected by our team of editorial experts and targeted by category to ensure the highest engagement from our audience. Partners often use Featured Deals to drive revenue for backlist books, boost a book up a bestseller list, or get readers hooked on the first book in a series.
Price: We charge a flat fee based on category, regions, and expected ROI. While we can’t guarantee feature results, our goal is to maintain pricing that, on average, leads to a positive return on investment for most of our partners!
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Author Profiles
Whether you’ve already written 20 books or you’ve just published your first, or if you’re self- or traditionally published, you should claim your Author Profile on BookBub. Claiming your profile and updating your information is a great way to get discovered by new readers on BookBub and ensure you can take advantage of New Release Alerts and other tools we’re planning to build in the future.
What they are: Author Profiles let authors list their complete collection of published ebooks on BookBub.com. Using the “Author Profile” and “My Books” links in your Partner Dashboard, you can update your author photo and biography and keep all of your book data current. Readers can view your profile on our website and “follow” you if they’re interested.
The more BookBub followers you have, the more readers your discounts and new releases will reach. That’s because BookBub sends dedicated New Release Alert and Deal Alert emails to all of your BookBub followers. If you haven’t already, you can claim your profile here.
Price: Author Profiles are free to claim and manage.
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Preorder Alerts
If you have a book that’s currently available for preorder and are looking to drive sales before the book is officially released, Preorder Alerts might be a great fit!
What they are: Preorder Alerts are our latest promotional tool. They’re dedicated emails to an author’s followers on BookBub letting them know that one of the author’s books is available for preorder. This tool is initially available in the US only to any authors with over 1,000 followers on BookBub.
If you haven’t quite hit 1,000 followers yet on BookBub, and are interested in growing your following, we have a handy blog post with ideas for boosting your count here.
Price: For these alerts, we charge $0.02 per eligible US follower on BookBub.
New Release Alerts
If you have an upcoming new release, New Release Alerts could be a great promotional option for you to drive some additional sales at launch and make sure your fans know about this next book.
What they are: A New Release Alert is a dedicated email we send to all of your US BookBub followers letting them know you’ve published a new book, which includes links to retailer sites for the reader to purchase. To take advantage of this tool, all you need to do is add your book (as long as it’s on preorder or recently released) to your Author Profile. Our team will ensure the book meets our basic requirements, and if it does, we’ll send a New Release Alert for you within the first two weeks your book is on sale.
Price: New Release Alerts are free!
BookBub Ads
If you’d like to promote a new release, full-priced book, novella, multi-author box set, or a title that hasn’t been selected for a Featured Deal, BookBub Ads are a great, flexible option.
What they are: BookBub Ads appear in a display ad space located at the bottom of our Featured Deals email. This platform allows partners to market any book at any time to our readers, without being subject to our editorial review process. The platform is totally self-serve and allows you to target readers by author interest, location, retailer preference, and genre interest. We’re only able to support a small number of advertisers at this time, but we’re busy expanding capacity, and in the months ahead we’ll gradually invite members of the waiting list to use the tool. You can join the waiting list here.
Price: Very flexible. Your budget can be as little as $1 or $1,000 or more, but the best budget and bid price for you really depend on your goals. If you need any tips for running a successful BookBub Ads campaign, please write to us at partners@bookbub.com, and we’ll be happy to help.
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We hope this guide has been helpful, and that we have a promotional tool or two that can help you achieve your marketing goals this year! And of course, keep an eye out for more options in the future — we’re always looking for new, effective ways to help authors promote their books.
You can find any news about new tools we’ve launched here on the Partners Blog, and we’d recommend signing up for updates to ensure you stay in the loop!
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