With the high volume of books launching each year, competition for readers’ attention is skyrocketing while publicity teams’ bandwidths are stretched thin — so publishers these days are asking their authors to take on more and more of their own promotional activities. In … [Read more...]
Price Promotions
Dropping the price of your book for a limited time can dramatically increase sales and provide a halo effect! Check out the power of price promotions as a part of your book marketing plan.
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 I Launched My New Release and Sold 20K Copies
This summer I released Earth Alone, the first novel of my newest indie-published science fiction series, Earthrise. In its first seven weeks, the novel sold over 20,000 copies and received millions of page reads in the Kindle Unlimited library. Before the launch, my goal … [Read more...]
Marketing a New Book: 6 Tactics Authors & Publishers Love
When launching a new book, there’s a gamut of marketing activities authors and publishers can use to create buzz and generate sales. Despite that huge range of tactics, there are a handful of specific marketing activities that we hear authors and publishers buzzing about … [Read more...]
9 Ways to Market a Book After the New Release Buzz Dies Down
Myth or fact?: Once a book has launched and the new release buzz has died down, there’s nothing you can do to market that book except publish the next one. Myth! With a little creativity and persistence, you can continue marketing a book to effectively reach new readers … [Read more...]
Why Authors Running a Featured Deal Should Claim Their BookBub Profile
Looking to get the most out of an upcoming BookBub Featured Deal? Here’s something to keep in mind: Authors who claim their BookBub Author Profile before running a Featured Deal typically accelerate their BookBub follower growth after the deal. That means that if you’re … [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...]
7 Top Ebook Price Promotion Stats You Need to Know
Authors and book marketers are always looking for ways to increase discoverability and revenue of their backlist books, and price promotions are a known way to reach a high volume of readers. But how can you run the most effective promotion possible? Using data to determine … [Read more...]
How to Use Price Promotions to Market a New Book Release
When you release a new book, your existing book backlist can be a valuable promotional asset. Not only will existing fans gobble up your newest work, but discounting your own backlist book can help attract brand new readers and drive sales for a full-priced new book. In … [Read more...]
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