There is a challenge to drawing readers into a series after several books have been released. In March, Lila Dubois and I released Delicate Ties, book eight in our Trinity Masters series. The series has been very successful, yet our sales numbers weren’t growing. Readers who … [Read more...]
BookBub Featured Deals
We have plenty of tips on how to run a successful price promotion! By discounting an ebook and promoting it with a BookBub Featured Deal, you can boost book sales, hit bestseller lists, and get new power readers. Here are a few of our top posts on running Featured Deals:
9 Reasons a Book Was Rejected for a BookBub Featured Deal
BookBub editors get on average 300 Featured Deal submissions per day and are only able to accept 10-20% of them. Why might we select one book above another? What criteria do we look at? In this post, we’ll reveal some of the most common reasons why a book is rejected for … [Read more...]
Q&A with a BookBub Editor on Launching New Categories
At BookBub, we regularly test and launch new categories to include in our daily Featured Deals email. This helps our partners run more targeted and effective book marketing campaigns. Since we just launched two new categories — Psychological Thrillers and American … [Read more...]
How I Sold 100x More of My Book Series
I'm always one of the first to advocate for making a first-in-series book free. Permafree series-starters are what have kept my book sales chugging along. And when I'm lucky enough to score a BookBub Featured Deal on one of my three free Scottish historical romances, the … [Read more...]
The 11 Most Common Questions Authors Ask BookBub
At BookBub, we hear a wide array of questions from authors on everything from the Featured Deals selection process to claiming a BookBub Author Profile. But there are certain questions that come up again and again, so we thought it would be handy to compile the answers to … [Read more...]
How I Became a Bestseller with a Coordinated Marketing Plan
When my first novel, The Fairy Tale Bride, was traditionally published in October of 2000, I had all the usual hopes and dreams of new writers — letters from readers, great reviews, and, of course, becoming a bestselling author. What I didn’t know at the time was that my … [Read more...]
Why Discounting Box Sets Can Dramatically Increase Sales
Running a limited-time price promotion is an effective way to increase sales or downloads of a book or series, but different types of promotions work best for different marketing goals. We’ve discussed before how discounting the first book in a series to free is an excellent … [Read more...]
Q&A with a BookBub Editor on Our Selection Process
We often get questions from our partners about the Featured Deal selection process. We have a team of in-house editors who review every book that gets submitted to BookBub, and I interviewed one of these editors to give our partners some more insight into her … [Read more...]
How BookBub’s Editors Pick Categories for Featured Deals
We’ve already shared how our editorial team chooses books for Featured Deals, but in addition to deciding which books to feature, there’s another element to their selection process — in which category should a book be placed? Our editorial team’s category decisions are … [Read more...]
11 BookBub Myths Busted
There are a lot of myths and misconceptions out there about how BookBub works — from how we select books to feature to what kind of behavior will get authors on a “blacklist” (this one baffles us!). We wanted to put some of the rumors we hear about most often to rest. … [Read more...]
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