Smith is a writer, editor and publisher. She has three novels to her name, and one non-fiction guide, written with fellow indie authors in mind. Katharine runs Heddon Publishing from her home in Shropshire, which she shares with her husband and their two children. I have a Facebook group of members who for the past months have been reading excerpts from my book and watching videos about it.
Could I offer a free book out a marked down book to the group and ask them to write an Amazonreview? Thanks for sharing and the promotional timing advice! Not much explanation here. Please inform me. But here goes anyway. No, Amazon shares zero buyer information.
If you want to get people on your mailing list, you have to include a link to do so in the back of your book. It is a TON of work to submit to all of these sites and go through my step checklist.
Therefore, you may want to consider purchasing advertising instead. However, Amazon has changed their mind. This was brought to our attention from other authors and we e-mailed Amazon directly to confirm. This was their reply…. We take activities that jeopardize the experience of our customers and our publishers very seriously and may take action against publisher accounts that engage in sales rank manipulation.
Therefore, we no longer recommend you use that service. However, there are many websites you can get paid advertising and we outline these in our book, Author Publicity Pack. One such site is BookLemur. They allow you to select the date of your promotion, however, they do fill up fast, so make sure you purchase your ad in advance here. Anyone that knows me well, knows that I operate in an ethical way and will not do anything that puts my KDP account in jeopardy.
If I have a question about something, I will e-mail Amazon directly. If they say it is okay, then I trust their word and vice versa.
For example, last year, many authors were using fancy HTML code in their book descriptions on Amazon. I e-mailed Amazon and they said it was against their terms of service to use that kind of code. I want you to be able to trust our recommendations and know that we do thorough research before recommending any product or service. If you have any questions on this, please let us know. Kindle books do reach an international audience.
However, there are some countries that are not currently able to download free Kindle books. If your targeting these countries with your promotion, you may want to try a different method. Have you used the KDP select program? If so, share your results with us below. Also, if you have any other websites to add, share them in the comments so we can add them to our list.
Share this post: on Twitter on Facebook on LinkedIn. Together, CJ and Shelley Hitz are passionate about equipping and empowering Christian writers of all genres to share their unique gifts with the world.
This website is filled with spiritual encouragement as well as prayers to help you overcome the resistance you face as a writer. Your story matters! We believe that you have a specific role to play in the kingdom of heaven to impact lives for eternity. And because of this, we will pour out our lives encouraging writers like you to not only tell your stories but to take the courageous step of self-publishing your stories in books that will outlive you and leave behind a powerful legacy.
Our online community, Christian Book Academy , is where we help you write, publish and launch your books. We invite you to join our community of Kingdom Writers! Can you add it to your list? So helpful. Hi there , So pleased to find this site its really helpful and filled with great ideas to attend too. Keep posted as we plan to share many more tutorials for authors here. Hey Shelley I started emailing all the emails you gave, and when double checking, some of their sites are no longer up or the one with the Facebook page is down.
However, thanks for putting a list like this together and links all in one place. Hey Steve, Thanks for letting me know! I just updated the list — it is ever changing! Great post. I will definitely use this when I have a free day. I actually have one tomorrow but will have to look over everything for my next free day. Thanks for including Awesomegang. It is much appreciated. If I can I would also like to add that we let authors place their books right on our Facebook page.
Thanks, Vinny! Submissions are free and we automatically place them for sale in our bookstore after the free days have passed.
We also accept perma-free books. Thank you! I added it to our list under contact forms and let authors know that paid options were available as well. Thank you, Sara! Extremely helpful work, thank you, I hope you are getting your works worth for it. Celal Boz. Here is another website to post your Kindle freebies, list your books, and promote yourself as an author! I greatly appreciate it! Feel free to add our site as well. Great tool for anyone planning a Kindle Select freebie.
If you have time, check the sites to see if they use a specific style, cover a specific genre or want you to contact them at a specific time, such as the morning the offer starts. Your generosity in sharing all of these links is so special and helpful. Thank you and Happy New Year, carol. Thank you so much!
I hope your book takes off like gangbusters! Glad to have found your blog through The Carnival of the Indies — your posts deal thoroughly with significant issues. THanks for this list. THanks again. However I Noticed that the days after the free promo days were followed by zero sales and zero reviews.
Any suggestions or recommendations? Great content! We post links to free ebooks on ebookspromo. We will also promote and submit your book to these free ebooks sites prior to your book being free. Visit our site for more information. I am a bit overwhelmed with my first ebook, hopefully publishing in next couple of weeks. This information is very useful.
Do you think for a first timer the KDP is the right way to go? We hope to be added to your awesome list and look forward to seeing some of your submissions soon! What a great resource!! We used the free promotion and the links provided in this post with huge success. All of the links to the free ebook sites and blogs definitely helped move the needle during our free launch. As we are new this is free of charge to start with.
I have been adding all these sites to my bookmarks over the past two days. I am really looking forward to using these resources. I have been reading you guys for a while and I really appreciate all the help. But it makes me sad that you guys recommend and link to any so called services just because you can make some affiliate commission.
They use bots to get you those guaranteed downloads. Again, I thank you for all the helpful tips and advice you guys provide here, but I sure hope you guys would verify things a bit more before recommending a service to your readers. And I mean it with utmost respect. Believe me, I thought the free downloads service was a scam as well. But, I did a lot of research before recommending it.
They said it was fine to use 3rd party services like theirs for paid advertising in this way. Not only did they get the downloads they paid for, but they also had an increase in paid sales in their book and series afterwards. They have a big e-mail list and so their downloads are from REAL people. This was their reply to me. We already have confirmation from not one but a few different people emailing and asking amazon about the legitimacy of the downloads.
If you have proof that it is anything otherwise, please let me know. Hi Shelley! Thanks for everything you do! Please add ChristianBookFinds.
Hi, I just want to thank you for the post on getting the word out on a free ebook promotion. This was my first ebook and, after the 3rd day, there have been free downloads of my book. I am very happy with those results for my first book!
Do you recommend doing a Countdown Deal right off the bat or just try to promote it through my site and other avenues beforehand? I started a 5 day free promo on January 8. Thank you so much for your advice. I am new to all of this. I only have a very small email list of about friends and family that I shared this with. I have ZERO presence on facebook and social media in general. If you read this article, act on what you read.
I submitted my book to every one of these sites that I was able to. By the way, do you have any more advice for how to translate this into PAID sales after the deal ends and tips to keep the momentum going? This would be a huge help to all of us.
If anyone is interested in the book, you can get it for free until Jan 12 at the link I provided. Hey Travis, That is very exciting to hear about your results using our checklist and listed sites. Amazon guides you step by step through publishing, choosing a royalty rate, and everything in between. Books are usually approved within a few hours and they even give you a ton of resources to format it perfectly.
Book promotion is easy and self-publishing is a great way to earn passive income, but you need to market yourself. Begin by visiting all of the subreddits I mentioned in the first section and submitting your book. Lastly, narrow down some free promotional websites and offer your book to them. Some require it to be free or a certain price, so do your due diligence. Reach out to me to learn more about my Toronto content writing services if you require a ghostwriter.
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