Book Promotions – List of Websites For Book Submissions

The websites in the list below are websites I’ve submitted to that didn’t give me any problems. (Meaning they haven’t used my credit card without my authorization or sell my credit card details away. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you can read about it here.) 

I do NOT guarantee that they’ll produce the same result I got through my own KDP promotions, and I did not get paid to tell you about them.

If you want to read about my thoughts on this aspect of book promotion, it’s right here.

Now, here’s the list:

Digital Book Today

Free Book Dude

Book Goodies

Ereader Perks

Ereader Girl

Armadilloe Books

Awesome gang

Book angel UK

Free & Discounted Books

Book Canyon

New Free Kindle Books

Frugal Freebies

Indie Book of the Day

Free Booksy

Book Deal Hunter

OHFB

Book Freebies

Content Mo

Ebook lister

Christian Kindle News

Faithful reads

Christian Readers

Bargain Christian

Crossreads

Writer Owned

Book Praiser

Media Bistro

Choosy Bookworm

Book Circle

Deal Seeking Moms

Ebook Lister

eFreeBooks

Indie House Books

Feed Your Reader

Free eBooks Blog

Freebies for moms

Kindle Books Promo Penny Pinchin Mom People Reads Frugal Find Coupon Crazy Mom Blog eBook Daily Deals eBook Habits eReader Cafe Free ebooks for me I Crave Freebies One Hundred Free Books Story Finds Book Preview Club Great Books Deals I Love eBooks Kindle Book Review Indie Author News Jungle Steals & Deals Hunt 4 Freebies Free Kindle Books Free Digital Reads Free Books Hub FreeBooks.com Ignite Your Book eBooks Addict It’s Write Now Book Lover’s Heaven Book Pinning Free Stuff Times You’ll need to set aside a day or two to submit to all these websites. Some websites require you to submit on the actual day, some need you to submit at least a week in advance. So be sure to check them out before your actual promotion. Also, you can submit to 30 of these websites through a simple tool that will help you save hours. Check out the book submission tool that I use for every promotion.

Book Promotions – What Works & What Doesn’t (Part 5: Book Submissions to Websites)

The final installment of my series, and I’m going to write about submissions to websites.

If you still haven’t heard, there’s a cool tool that allows you to submit books to 30 websites in under 5 minutes. Check it out here.

Submitting my book to websites that cater to book readers is a part I alwasy include in my book promotions. The unfortunate thing about this promotion is that there isn’t a way to track the number of people visiting from each website, so you won’t really know which websites are directing people to you.

Here’s how most of the websites work:
You submit your book to the admin by filling up a form or sending them an email, then the admin will choose which books they are going to promote.

Usually, there will be a paid option to guarantee that your book is being promoted.

BUT, all these websites only allow the actual Amazon link. So you won’t be able to track how many people actually clicked on the link. Therefore, paying for guaranteed submissions is really just taking a chance.

So I can’t really give you a definite number, but here’s what I’ve taken away from the promotions I’ve run: They do work.

I’ve had promotions where I didn’t any besides submitting my book to websites and facebook groups (which I talked about in Part 4 of this series) and I still got at least 6000 free downloads through my KDP promotions.

A WORD OF CAUTION: Not all websites can be trusted. I’ve been scammed before. One of the websites used my credit card details and basically charged me for services I never ordered. Here’s the story  If you were to look at the comments, you’ll see that many others were scammed as well.

I don’t want the same thing to happen to you, so I’m going to share my list. But I’ve got to do it another time. I need to cook dinner. Until then, here’s a tool I use.

It helps you submit your book to 30 websites in a few minutes, much faster than it would if you were to do it manually. I’ve tried both ways, and I must prefer the tool. It’s really affordable. Since finding the tool, I’ve always used it in my promotions. Click here to check it out.

Book Promotions – What Works & What Doesn’t (Part 4: Facebook Groups)

Posting in Facebook groups for book promotions. There is quite a number of Facebook groups, some open, some closed (but you can click a join button to get entry into the group).

Different group has different rules, so be sure you read the rules before posting, or you might end up getting booted from the group.

I shared several posts, once a day for my 2-day promotion and one more on the last hour of the promotion, in 28 groups.

Here’s the stats:
Total of the three posts: 350 clicks.
Cost: $0

Yes, it’s free! All you need to do is to spend some time joining the groups, reading the rules, then posting in each group regarding the book promotion.

Would I do this again?
Definitely! It’s free, and it delivered more clicks that Twitter and even the paid Facebook promotion.

Cheat/Hack
Here’s a tip if you have a few bucks to spare but not absolutely no time in your busy schedule. You can get someone to do it for you for a mere $5.

This will save you the time of having to join the groups and waiting for the admin to approve your request. So if you’re promoting your book within this week but haven’t joined a single group, this is a great choice.

You simply go to Fiverr.com and run a search using the term ‘Facebook group.’ Then you’ll be able to choose from the lists of sellers there. Be sure to send them a message to check if they’ll be able to help you post on the date that you want before purchasing.

Book Promotions – What Works & What Doesn’t (Part 3: Facebook Paid Campaigns)

Part 3! Sorry about the delay between posts, but I’ve been down with a flu.

Anyway, I shall dive right in.

Here’s what I did:

I post an update regarding the free KDP promotion I’m having, then boosted the post. (I do post in Facebook groups too, but I shall write about that in the next post.)

It is really easy to boost the post, Facebook has a small button on the bottom of each post to allow you to boost it. But I do have several issues with it. Each time I boosted the post, after maybe an hour or so (sometimes longer, sometimes shorter), I get an email from Facebook telling me that they had suspended my boosted post.

Why?

Because there’s too many words on the picture posted. According to Facebook rules, the words are only supposed to cover 20% of the picture. But I needed to put in information stating that it is free on which date and such, and it had to be large enough for people scrolling to see the information.

I still do it each time though. They have a pretty good analytic that will tell you how many people clicked on the post and such. 

Here’s the result:
I had a two-day promotion.

On the first day, the boosted post reached 89 people, with 1 post click and 1 other click.

On the second day, the boosted psot reached 2518, with 63 post clicks, 7 other clicks, 4 likes, and 2 shares.

Overall cost: $15
Cost per click: $0.21

BUT here’s the thing. I have 72 clicks in total, but I can’t confirm if the 72 people actually downloaded my book.

Would I use it again?
The result doesn’t seem fantastic, but I probably would. It’s not that expensive, and I get a tiny exposure with shares.

I’ll try my next campaign without the Facebook paid campaigns and update this post then.

Book Promotions – What Works & What Doesn’t (Part 2: Twitter Campaigns)

So I’ve already explained where I learned how to promote my books. If you’re interested, this is the book:

Through this blog spots, I’ll talk about each of the strategy involved and tell you if it works! Wherever possible, I’ll give actual numbers and teach you how you can track your own promotion as well.

My blog posts are on the results of my KDP promotions. All of these strategies seemed to work perfectly for the author.

Anyway, for Part 2, I’m going to talk about the Twitter Campaign I purchased.

In the book I mentioned, one of the strategies is to set up a twitter campaign.

The gist is to post a twitter message every 20 minutes with hashtags or @s in order to reach twitter users.

What I like about this strategy:
It puts my book out there, right?

What I don’t like about this strategy:
I don’t think it’s right for me to bombard my followers with a book promotion tweet every 20 mins.

I still followed the advice anyway, just for my first promotion. But I have gone back, retrieved a couple of the links, and checked the statistics.

Some of my links overlap (I used the same link for Twitter and Facebook) as I didn’t know I was able to check the statistic for the links. I only made sure that I use different links for different purposes on my latest promotion.

My Own Tweets:
I posted on my Twitter account with various hashtags and @s. I didn’t do it as often every 20 mins, I think I posted one every hour.

And the total clicks: 2

Purchased Tweet Campaign:
I’m not going to state who I purchased my tweet campaign from. This isn’t a smear campaign. 

I think the person who promoted my book posted around 1 tweet per hour as well. I’ve collected several of the links and checked the statistic.

Total clicks: 10

You may say that perhaps I didn’t purchase from the right person. Well … I can assure you the website is rather popular among indie writers.

But hey, you can check out the other major players as well. (Here’s the post on how to track the links.)

Personally, I tried checking the links of several popular twitter book promoters and their results weren’t fantastic as well, ranging from 0-5 clicks per posts, with the 5 clicks being extremely rare.

Conclusion:
I won’t pay another cent for twitter campaigns again. It’s expensive (more than a third of what I spend in total), and the results weren’t worth it.