Attention Indie Authors,
I scheduled free book promo (ebook giveaway) between 17th to 20th June 2020.
This time, I didn’t promote it here much just added a line to inform in the footer of my regular posts, or on any other social media platform. I rather focussed on websites.
Here, I am sharing with you all the list of tried and tested (by me) website that allow you to feature your book promotions for free.
- https://awesomegang.com/
- https://authormarketingclub.com/(this one has a list of links for submission)
- https://www.freebooksy.com/
- https://www.indieauthornews.com/
- https://www.ereaderiq.com/
- http://www.frugal-freebies.com/
- http://lovelybookpromotions.com/
- https://theereadercafe.com/
- https://itswritenow.com/
- http://bookangel.co.uk/
- https://www.bookzio.com/
- https://bookoftheday.org/
- https://readingdeals.com/
- http://indiebookoftheday.com/
- https://pretty-hot.com/
- https://bookgoodies.com/
- https://askdavid.com/
- https://bookbongo.com/
- https://discountbookman.com/
- https://wantonreads.com/
- https://free99books.com/
- https://www.readersintheknow.com/
- https://newfreekindlebooks.com/
- http://www.free-kindle-books-4u.com/
- https://www.humanmade.net/
- http://thedigitalinkspot.blogspot.com/
- http://www.icravefreebies.com/
- https://dealseekingmom.com/
- https://indiesunlimited.com/
- https://contentmo.com/
I have requested to be featured on all of these 30 websites and was successful with 14 of them (the ones I have highlighted), doesn’t mean others don’t feature maybe your book will have a better chance so I highly suggest you try you luck at all 30 of them.
By trying your luck I mean for free feature, if you want guaranteed feature you might have to pay. Every website has different packages.
My own feedback.
Last promotion (2 months back) I was able to give away 165 book in 2 days. I used all platforms known to me; my blog, instagram, twitter, and these websites.
This time I tried promoting only on websites and managed to giveaway 51 ebooks.
The book managed to rank on number 1 on multiple categories, but free books have different ranking. Still helps to highlight your book on amazon.
I am glad I did it. Learned A LOT along the way.
And I’m even happier I had a chance to give away my book in any form to 316 readers.
They say you get more reviews and ranking, but I haven’t gotten any yet. I did get mailed from paid reviews which I didn’t respond because I was people to be honest about my book.
I also heard giveaway help you with future sales. I got a few between these 2 promotions, but this number I was getting before too.
So, yea that’s about it.
I have removed swinging sanity from kindle select program, as it doesn’t suit it well. Might do a post about that too.
This was my total experience of free book promotion.
If you want to ask anything just feel free to reach out.
Stay safe and eat well!
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@awkward_expressionist
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thats a great list of websites! I’m glad some of them featured your book! So good you managed to give away so many copies!
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I hope it helps my fellow indie authors I compiled it for them.
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If you don’t mind my asking, what sort of success have you enjoyed in terms of sales from these sites?
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I wrote that below the links.
To sum it up I gave away 316 books (free). There was no remarkable difference in sales after promotion. No new reviews or rating. Even though a few paid reviewers contacted me with their quote in case I wanted to pay for a review, which i don’t.
I am getting my regular number of sales that too from my wordpress readers.
I wasn’t looking for sales my intention was too give free books, I had success with that part.
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Ah, so getting the book out there so to speak, was the aim? If you got over 300 people to at least download it, hopefully they’ll spread the word 🙂
I’ve only been published for a month, had a small spike when it went free of charge for a bit
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not just that, it was also for my blog followers 🙂
you have to promote like crazy even to give away books for free.
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