Each Chirp featured deal reaches hundreds of thousands of audiobook listeners in our daily deals email — but did you know this email is only one of many places readers can find discounted books on Chirp? There are lots of other ways Chirp surfaces your featured book (and … [Read more...]
5 Tips for Making the Most of your Chirp Audiobook Deal
Running a Chirp deal is a great way to increase revenue from your audiobooks, drive a high volume of sales, accumulate more reviews, and find new listeners. Audiobooks selected as Chirp featured deals are included in daily emails to our listeners as well as prominent … [Read more...]
Chirp Follow Buttons for Authors’ & Narrators’ Websites
Chirp users can now follow their favorite authors and audiobook narrators on Chirp! The more listeners an author has following them (or their narrator) on Chirp, the more effective their Chirp promotions can be. That’s because whenever an audiobook deal is promoted on Chirp, … [Read more...]
How to Self-Publish Audiobooks: 16 Tips from Indie Authors
Have you started self-publishing audiobooks? Audiobook readers are listening to more books than ever — the average number of audiobooks consumed per year increased to 8.1 in 2020, up from 6.8 in 2019, according to Edison Research’s national survey. And the fast-growing … [Read more...]
How to Drive Audiobook Series Follow-On Sales on Chirp
For many authors and publishers, one of the primary reasons to discount a book is to generate additional revenue and exposure from follow-on sales. A Chirp Deal is a fantastic way to drive hundreds or even thousands of sales of a discounted audiobook, but it can also boost … [Read more...]
5 Reasons Why All Indie Authors Should Produce Audiobooks
I’m what you call an early adopter. Way back when in the Stone Age of Romance — you know, before 2000 — I loved audiobooks; you know, those CD versions you could get from the library. There was something about someone reading me a story that really clicked. Maybe because I’m … [Read more...]
How an Author Drove 2K Audiobook Sales with Chirp & BookBub Ads
Many of our partners drive hundreds or even thousands of audiobook sales when they run Chirp Deals. And for those looking to boost sales during this promotion even more (or to promote other Chirp audiobook discounts), BookBub Ads offer another way to promote discounted … [Read more...]
The Ultimate Collection of Audiobook Marketing Examples [Free Download]
The audiobook market is one of the fastest-growing segments of the publishing industry. According to the Audio Publishers Association, it grew an estimated 16% from 2018 to 2019. And Findaway Voices recently shared that the growth they’ve seen from self-published authors and … [Read more...]
How I Promote My Audiobooks to Skyrocket Sales
Anyone “tuned in” to publishing will tell you the audiobook market is growing by a whole heckofalot. A survey in July 2019 by the Audio Publishers Association demonstrated how audiobooks are continuing to lead the book/publishing market in growth, with $940 million in sales … [Read more...]
New: Promote Chirp Audiobooks with BookBub Ads
We're always looking for new ways to help our partners connect with readers, so today, we’re excited to announce a new targeting option for the BookBub Ads platform that we’ve been working on for the past several months — you can now directly target Chirp members and other … [Read more...]
