David VanDyke said:
Seems an odd structure - free or jumps to $75. Anyone have experience with the paid option? Was it worth it?
I was thinking the same thing. I just did a Bookbub ad and paid $110 for a supernatural suspense freebie. I'm still way above normal for free downloads on this book. (perma-free). I'm somewhere around 28,000 downloads across all platforms. (I can't see the numbers of free from BN, so I'm not even counting those.)
I'm not sure a $100 there would work as well since I don't see that they have as many on their mailing list, and it isn't genre specific. (Bookbub's supernatural suspense had 660,000 subscribed to that genre). However, I have been picked up by them before when I ran a free book through Select and hadn't planned any other promotion, and had the free run do much better than I had expected because they picked it up. I wish I could remember numbers though.