Apart from Bookbub, obviously. I see a lot of griping about them these days, and I've noticed diminishing returns myself, although it's impossible to tell if that's on them or if it's inevitable in me running the same book (#1 in a series, discounted to free) over and over again. I sort of had decent returns with Robin Reads and Ebookhounds a few months ago, but nowhere near what I used to see.
Page reads can make up the difference for folks in KU, but the non-Bookbub promo sites mostly seem good for rank boosts (depending on stickiness/sell-through/tail to provide a positive ROI) if you're wide.
Follow up to this: I've launched Book 6 (final in my series), and made Book 1 free to download for June 4-6. Because I'm getting skeptical about them, the only advertising I lined up (apart from my own tweets which I can tell from the metrics tab are pointless) were Ebookhounds on June 4 and Robin Reads on June 5.
It's now past midnight in the eastern US and day one, with only Ebookhounds advertising (in the horror slot only, mind you) has netted me a grand total of... (drumroll) 39 downloads.
For comparison's sake, all my previous free book promos have usually spent between $50-200 on various newsletters, along with submitting to 10-30 free ones, and my results were generally in the vicinity of 1000 free downloads, and the bulk of those on the first day. Of course that makes it impossible to determine exactly which places are sending you the most traffic, which will make this interesting. I'll be keen to compare Ebookhounds to Robin Reads tomorrow.
Follow up to this: I've launched Book 6 (final in my series), and made Book 1 free to download for June 4-6. Because I'm getting skeptical about them, the only advertising I lined up (apart from my own tweets which I can tell from the metrics tab are pointless) were Ebookhounds on June 4 and Robin Reads on June 5.
It's now past midnight in the eastern US and day one, with only Ebookhounds advertising (in the horror slot only, mind you) has netted me a grand total of... (drumroll) 39 downloads.
For comparison's sake, all my previous free book promos have usually spent between $50-200 on various newsletters, along with submitting to 10-30 free ones, and my results were generally in the vicinity of 1000 free downloads, and the bulk of those on the first day. Of course that makes it impossible to determine exactly which places are sending you the most traffic, which will make this interesting. I'll be keen to compare Ebookhounds to Robin Reads tomorrow.
I'm sorry about your experience withe eBookHounds. I just recently had 1216 downloads on all Amazon sites from Freebooksy. That was in Fantasy. I have a bulk package and it was $85.
I think RobinReads, BookBotBill, BookDoggy, eBookDiscovery, ENT, BookBarbarian, Fussy, and (sometimes) Booksends, Fktips, BookGorilla are the ones you want.
Newsletter swaps with people in your genre are also really cheap and effective.
Follow up to this: I've launched Book 6 (final in my series), and made Book 1 free to download for June 4-6. Because I'm getting skeptical about them, the only advertising I lined up (apart from my own tweets which I can tell from the metrics tab are pointless) were Ebookhounds on June 4 and Robin Reads on June 5.
It's now past midnight in the eastern US and day one, with only Ebookhounds advertising (in the horror slot only, mind you) has netted me a grand total of... (drumroll) 39 downloads.
For comparison's sake, all my previous free book promos have usually spent between $50-200 on various newsletters, along with submitting to 10-30 free ones, and my results were generally in the vicinity of 1000 free downloads, and the bulk of those on the first day. Of course that makes it impossible to determine exactly which places are sending you the most traffic, which will make this interesting. I'll be keen to compare Ebookhounds to Robin Reads tomorrow.
I tried ebookhounds first time for a .99 promo and got 0. I thought they didn't run it but they said they did. Aked for more info. never heard back. Won't use again.
My free promos average 1000 on sites like booksends, booksbarbian, book gorilla. freebooksy best at about 1700
Yep, Day 2 and Robin Reads (just in the horror category) netted me 397 free downloads. So they can stay on my list of worthwhile promoters, done with ebookhounds though.
It does occur to me that limiting my promotional material so I can more accurately gauge what I'm getting out of it might have been better to do in the future, rather than on my launch for the last book in my series... Whoops.
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