Comments on: Insider Guide To Landing A Book Promo Deal

By: Coretta Burgess

Coretta Burgess — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:59:55 +0000

There is this word…ironic, yes That is it. Ironic that you guys are demanding reviews when the people who already have reviews have less need for your services as against those who have none. smh.

By: Effrosyni Moschoudi

Effrosyni Moschoudi — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 11:49:00 +0000

"I pinch pennies so tight that they all have my thumbprint for tails and my index fingerprint for heads." LOL Gosh, I love Matt Stone's copy! As a member of his Digital Freedom Academy I absolutely lap up all the resources he constantly makes available and just downloaded off Amazon 3 more of his books. Thank you for this truly insightful post, Matt and Dave. I have never submitted a book on Buck Books but will try my luck at first opportunity. And you're so right about humor and people being people, Matt. An author friend once got a Bookbub deal after putting in her submission the comment that she's named her goldfish 'Bookbub'! :) Effrosyni

By: HowardRoark314

HowardRoark314 — Wed, 17 May 2017 00:05:00 +0000

In reply to Dave Chesson. I've been thru dozens of BookBub promos over the years, my first one was actually a surprise: BB was so young they promoted one of my books for free without telling me, leaving me to be shocked at the sudden sales spike. Back in those days, I got accepted every month like clockwork for a year - then the secret got out and I maybe scored 3-4x a year, at best. Just the past several months have actually seemed to get a little easier, but the ROI is nowhere near where it used to be in my experience. From roughly $3000 in profit to less than half that, which is still nothing to sneeze at. Just my $0.02.

By: Thea Kelley

Thea Kelley — Tue, 02 May 2017 17:55:00 +0000

In reply to Dave Chesson. Thanks! So then, if you wanted to price it at $0 for a promotion, would you do it via Draft 2 at all the vendors, or just at one in particular?

By: Dave Chesson

Dave Chesson — Tue, 02 May 2017 17:44:00 +0000

In reply to Thea Kelley. I put mine through Draft 2 Digital, who then submits the books to all of the other pertinent vendors.

By: Thea Kelley

Thea Kelley — Tue, 02 May 2017 17:31:00 +0000

Hi Dave – Thanks for these great tips. Question about “Sell on lots of vendors, not just Amazon” – which of those other vendors is good for temporarily pricing the book at $0?

By: Scott David Plumlee

Scott David Plumlee — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 08:36:00 +0000

Hello Dave Chesson and Matt Stone, thank you both for your consideration to help us ‘developing authors’ get more exposure for our artistic creations. I appreciate your content in this well-written article, as I have been looking for other places to showcase my latest book publications. However, after reviewing the requirements for Buck Book’s Promotion submission, I’m saddened to realize that my book will not qualify; any suggestions would be appreciated.

To better understand my unique problem, some background information is needed. I am writing a series of travel photography eBooks, each title chronicles my adventures over 3-6 days in a particular location, and contains 50 images over 50 pages with limited text boxes to provide a narrative to the adventure. I have recently done a 5-day free released on Amazon for the eBook, Vietnam Backpacker Photo Journey #4: Caving Phong Na, and got 163 downloads and 19 reviews (plus one in Japanese) with 3.8 rating.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XVQ3MSW

In reviewing the requirements for Buck Book’s promotion submissions, I have two problems. The first is that my book is only 50 pages in length; I purposely set this limit to keep the file size down. Buck Books requires that the books to be submitted are at least 60-pages. The second problem is due to the large amount of images, the file size is 5.52MB, and even at the 35% scheduling the cheapest that Amazon would allow me to sell the book is $1.99. Because of the file size, I cannot lower the price to $0.99 that they Buck Book’s require.

So in a nutshell, I have a unique product outside of the normal publishing situation, and would like your advice on work around for these problems, or suggestions for other book promotion sites that would be a better fit for my photo journal travel books. Thank you in advance for your time and consideration. I love the Kindlepreneur site and have gained so much valuable information here – thanks for helping to inspire me.

Forever your fan, Scott David Plumlee

By: Carol Conway

Carol Conway — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 00:50:00 +0000

In reply to Dave Chesson. Tee-hee ...

By: Chris Tick

Chris Tick — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:22:00 +0000

Good reference to have handy.

By: Steven Erlick

Steven Erlick — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 20:34:00 +0000

Good informative article, if a bit self promotional. But came away feeling very elitist like the old days of publishing before self publishing on Kindle. Most average self publishers are not going to meet these standards but for top end its perfect.

By: Dave Chesson

Dave Chesson — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:31:00 +0000

In reply to Woodyd1941. Oh dear! haha...that's a little embarrassing. Thanks for catching it.

By: Woodyd1941

Woodyd1941 — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:21:00 +0000

Good stuff, However–Not to be a grammar nazi, but “Three principals to help with promotion?” Where–at the PTA book sale?