John Doppler, the Alliance of Independent Writer’s Watchdog recently did a comparison of 8 eBook discovery services.
Free and discounted ebooks can be a powerful tool for increasing sales, but only if readers know about the deal.
That’s where ebook discovery services come into play. These mailing lists can put your free or discounted books in front of tens of thousands of interested readers.
We’ve gathered the data on eight popular services so you can compare pricing, audience, and features to find the right platform for promoting your free and discounted books.
Lot’s of the content is relevant for different fiction genres, but it was good to see there was a ebook discovery recommendation for the travel guide genre (non-fiction).
Freebooksy and Bargain Booksy are sister sites. Freebooksy promotes permanently and temporarily free ebooks to their audience of over 230,000 readers, while Bargain Booksy promotes discounted titles to more than 170,000 subscribers. Deal of the Day features are available to distribute ads to a combined audience of Freebooksy and Bargain Booksy subscribers.
Best Categories: Bargain Booksy’s nonfiction categories are great values, particularly the Cooking, Travel, General Nonfiction, and Self Help categories.
Here’s the recommended ebook discovery services for all price points between free books to $2.99.
For each genre below we have evaluated four price brackets — Free, $0.99, $1.99, and $2.99 or higher. Each tab lists the services from best to worst value, determined by the cost to reach 1,000 subscribers (CPM). The higher on the list an option is, the better its value.
Although most services assign a genre to your book, they may honor requests for a specific genre. Only genres which have comparable categories among two or more services are shown.
Prices, categories, and subscriber counts were gathered on May 24, 2016. Consult the companies’ websites for the most recent details.
If you’re looking to promote your travel guide ebook, take a look at these stats and see the preferred services recommended by John Doppler based on his evaluation of these ebook discovery services.
Thanks John for this well research article.
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