+127 of the Top Free and Paid Book Promotion Sites

A grand but overused tactic to improve Kindle book sales is to spread your book’s Amazon sale page link to as many free and paid book promotion sites as possible.

The hope is that regardless of the quality of the book promotion site, or the amount of actual traffic that they receive, sales or downloads will occur and hopefully a review or two may show up.

Whether you love this style of kindle book advertising or not, one cannot deny the effectiveness of this book advertising strategy.

The below list is my compilation of my favorite book promotion sites – some free, while others not so much.

Each one of the ebook promotion sites will have their own set of requirements in order to be accepted. So, to help you out, I did the research on each one and wrote a quick bit about their stipulations and what that website is all about.

In this article, you will gain:

• A list of the best book promotion websites, free and premium
• An understanding of how these book promotion sites work
• A couple of options in order to not have to do this yourself

List of Top Free Book Promotion Sites

The below list comprises of the best book promo sites out there.  As you’ll see they are all free, but some have a special upgrade.  Make sure to check the notes to the right and ensure your ebook meets the requirements. Many of these I have used, while others were ones I collected recommendations from by other authors, so please keep that in mind and if you find one to be incredible or terrible, let me know and I’ll update as necessary.

Book Promotion Plus Publishing Deal

There is a company in the list above that needs a special mention.  Inkitt is a publishing company that will not only submit your book to their thousands of readers for free (legit) but will also offer you a publishing deal worth thousands of dollars if their readers like it.

You win because you get your book out in front of a LOT of people, increase your discoverability, and get the chance to land a publishing deal.  They win because through their system, they’ll be able to know how much people enjoyed your book and with their mastery of book marketing, they know they’ll be able to increase sales so that it is profitable for the both of you if you do decide to sign with them.

How it works is that you first submit your book, and they’ll upload it to their e-reader app which has been downloaded by hundreds of thousands of people.  There, their app users will choose, download and read your book…all the while Inkitt will monitor how far they get into the book.  If they see that people are reading it at a high percentage, then they’ll offer you a publishing deal.

The best part is, you can still say no…but I doubt you would. They’ve got a solid record at this.

Requirements:

• Must be over 20,000 words
• No short story collection or poems
• Accepts only Fiction entries

That’s it.

So, check it out, upload your book, get it discovered by thousands and potential land a nice publishing deal!

List of Top Paid Book Promotion Websites

Below is a list of the top paid promotion websites.  These services either offer to send your book to other promo sites, saving you time and energy or will offer your book to a premium group of readers.  In most cases, you’ll get a better quality output through these sites…but at a price.  Also, if you want to see which ones are most worth your time and give you the best ROI, check out my list here.

Also, keep in mind the list of paid sites below consist of some that I haven’t personally used, and some that I have.  I’ve worked to compile as legitimate of a list of book promotion sites as possible so as to make it easier for you to see what is out there.  If you come across any you love or hate, let me know and I’ll keep the list up-to-date.

If you know of a legitimate site that should be featured here, contact me and let me know!

How Do Free Book Promotion Sites Work

These book promotion sites have collected a very targeted bunch of emails or built up a large social media account and are willing to do some free book promoting on your behalf.

All you have to do is submit your book information for a promotion, and they’ll blast the information out to their – hopefully – avid readers.  With all of those free downloads, the hope is that some of them will leave a review and the spike in downloads will help with your Amazon rankings.

So, why do they do such an amazing free service?

Podcast Episode – Learn More About Which Promotion Sites Are Best And How They Work

                                          

In many cases, these free and paid book promo sites will use their Amazon Associate link to point to your book.  That way, if someone clicks on it and downloads it, that site will get a percentage of anything that person ends up buying within 24 hours of clicking the link. Yup…that’s how Amazon Associate works.

But don’t let that get you all riled up!  These book promotion sites are basically free advertisement for you.  By getting the clicks and downloads, your book will become more popular by the minute…and all you had to do was fill out a form.  It’s a win-win situation.

Some even do it so as to see how well your book performs with their readers and will then turn around and offer you a very profitable publishing deal like Inkitt does — which is kind of brilliant if you think about it.

How to Best Use and Schedule Your Book Promotion Site Pushes

To help you see the big promo site layout, here is a video I did look at the how, why and when to book promo site marketing.

Book Promotion Site Services and Help

Now, if you are a writer with frugal living habits or just someone on a budget, you can take the above list of book promotion sites and hand-jam your information into each one.

Grab a bottle of wine and some ice cream, because that will take a little bit of time.

Viable Economical Services

Another viable option is to go to Fiverr and pay someone to do the lists above or follow their own list – although I don’t think they will be as thorough as my list. Typically, though, I will send my Virtual Assistant this list and have them do it for me, but until you make the VA leap, here are some potential contacts that will do it for you: (PS: None of these are affiliate links)

BKnights on Fiverr: This guy or gal is the bomb diggity of promotion sites sales.  The link to the left is his Fiverr profile page where you will find an assortment of Fiverr gig options.  I have never met anyone who didn’t think that these gigs were not worth every penny.

Book Kitty Facebook Promos on Fiverr: Through this gig, they’ll promote your book on 5 popular Facebook pages that the gig runner owns.  With 600+ positive reviews, its a favorite and go-to gig for many.

James H. Mayfield’s Promotion Service: This one is my favorite coming from my good friend Holger (uses a pen name).  Honestly, he has the most experience with working with these free sites and I took a peek at his analytics and well…the guy’s a pro.  Plus, he offers other types of promotions to include Facebook, Reddit, forums and others.

And here are some more Fiverr Opportunities:

Fiverr Gig for 25 Kindle Sites

If you would like to make some extra cash, go ahead and start your own Fiverr gig and email me your link.  I’ll include you on this post….talk about FREE publicity!

Premium Book Promo Submission Tools

If hiring someone to do this is not your thing, then you could always venture into the programming side of the world.  Here are two programs/services that you could try. Neither of these links are affiliate links because I don’t use them so I can’t say with certainty that they are good or work.  But if you try them, let me know your thoughts in the comments below:

Book Marketing Tools Submission Tool
Author Marketing Club

Disclaimer: Writing a post about this is pretty hard because every day these sites are are changing, going out of business or just disappearing. I cannot promise that the information above will be the same when you click on the link. However, in an ever quest to publish amazing content, please, by all means, contact me and let me know if any information has changed. I will be sure to update the site so as to reflect this. Till then, stay frosty and enjoy!

Alrighty guys, well I hope you enjoyed this list.  Now go out and make the most of it, and be sure to download my list of personal favorite book promotion sites below.

Cheers,

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