You’ve been slaving for months or even years over the first manuscript of your book. You’ve spent endless hours into days and nights going over the content and polishing any errors. You think it’s finally really to start its journey into the world of independent book publishing. The question now is where do you start to look for places to promote your work? That’s where we can come in to help.
We’ve compiled the Essential list of Book Promotion Sites that every author needs.
This list will provide you with sites that provide book promotion for free and for a fee. Which site you ultimately choose will be based on what your specific novel needs and this list will provide all of that information for you.
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| Book Promotion Site | Description | Genres Accepted | Price |
| Advicesbooks | Advice Books is a European book promotion service. They specialize in getting books recognized internationally, specifically in Europe and Italy. They offer a wide variety of different types of promotion and the prices range from as low as 5 to as high as 100 pounds. | Not Specified | 5 to 100 pounds |
| Armadillo Ebooks | Armadillo eBooks only caters to authors whose books are currently free of charge. All you have to do to apply is fill out a form. They cater to a lot of different genres as well. If your book is on sale for .99 to $2.99, you have the option of the eBook Booster Special. The Ebook Booster Special will submit your novel to 25 sites for $25 dollars. | All | Free – $25 |
| Ask David | Ask David is pretty cool because you can submit the same book once every two weeks. This would out the author a lot! Your book must be free to be eligible. In order to be eligible for Ask David’s paid book promotion, you must be a member. Membership costs $15 and is valid for 6 months. As a member you can submit as many books as you want at no extra cost. | Not Stated | Free – $15 |
| Author Ad Network | Author Ad Network will promote your book to 28 different promotion sites and other social media programs. If your book is of the erotica genre, they’ll only promote to certain sites that allow it. The rate is a flat $129. | All | $129 |
| Author Marketing Club | Author Marketing Club offers submission to 28 separate platforms. You must be a club member to be eligible for these services. The basic membership option is free. Premium membership will cost you. Check out the site for more details. | Not stated | $20 |
| Authors Den | Does not give you any information unless you sign up for an account. Due to this, I wouldn’t include it on the list. | ||
| Awesome Book Promotion | This website is for stacking your book promo across multiple days. Using the form, you can submit your details once and we will put them across all our book promotion sites. Your promotion will be featured on the homepage of the websites and also go out in that sites newsletters and social media. There are 5 different platforms available. You can choose to spread out your promotion on specific dates on each of the 5 sites or stack them all in one day. This service will run you at $65. | All | $65 |
| Awesome Gang | Another form to fill out to access the free promotion service. Awesome Gang has no length requirement for your book synopsis. Remember, you’re essentially trying to sell your book to them. So, no length requirement is a huge help. In addition to Awesome Gang’s free book promotion service, they have an extra book promotion option for just $10. Get more exposure for your book by listing it on their front page for 2 days, a guaranteed spot in the Awesome Gang newsletters, and a blast out to the Awesome Gang social media channels. | Not Stated | Free – $10 |
| Babs Book Bistro | Bab’s Book Bistro will review and feature your book on the blog at no charge. However, she is currently only accepting certain genres. I would only submit if you have a romance or mystery that is in need of a review. | Mysteries, romance, western romances, historical romances, and Amish romances | Free |
| Bargain Booksy | Price paid depends on genre. More popular genres have a bigger list and therefore cost more. Check out the site for more details. | All | Price paid depends on genre |
| Bargain eBook Hunter | Ebook Hunter operates through the book promotion site Hot Zippy. Hot Zippy offers one of the biggest ranges of options and prices available. You can promote your book for up to a month using this service. You can also choose shorter promotional periods, such as one day. You have 3 options to choose from: sale, standard, and campaign. Prices range from $23-$330 | Not Specified | $23-$330 |
| Bee Zee Books | Bee Zee Books prides itself on the promotion of books by independent authors. All they have is a form to fill out when it comes to gathering information. So, I would use that as a way of inquiring about prices and genres. | Not Specified | Not Specified |
| Best Book Board | Best Book Board operates through another book promotion site called Author Ad Network. Author Ad Network will promote your book to 28 different promotion sites and other social media programs. If your book is of the erotica genre, they’ll only promote to certain sites that allow it. The rate is a flat $129. | All | $129 |
| Book Angel | Listing is free and your book could be chosen to receive reviews. But keep in mind those reviews will be honest. Please note that content must be PG-13 and your book must be on sale on Amazon.co.uk, not just .com. | Book must be considered PG-13 | Free |
| Book Barbarian | Book Barbarian specializes in the promotion of books in the science fiction and fantasy genre. Your book must be one of those two genres and be either a stand alone or first in a series. Pricing depends on the price of your ebook and ranges from as low as $25 to as high as $45. | Science Fiction and Fantasy | $25-$45 |
| Book Basset | No explicit content whatsoever allowed. You have two options: featured author post and guaranteed freebie post. Featured author post includes: Book Basset will feature one of your works, featured authors will get a dedicated post in the morning containing up to five of their books. Their post will be tweeted and posted to Book Basset’s Facebook wall and will also be featured in their daily “Today’s Deals from Book Basset” email.The guaranteed freebie post includes all of the previous package’s features plus some freebies thrown in. | No Erotica or explicit adult content. | $8 per day – $22 per day |
| Book Bongo | Book Bongo offers 4 different packages for the promotion for your book. The free package includes tweeting about your book, Facebook posts, and on their site for a promotional period that is decided by them. Book Bogo offers three different paid book promotion options. First, there is the Book Bump for $10. The Book Bump gets you a guaranteed Bongo Boost and your book permanently featured in up to two genres on Book Bongo’s website. Also includes a mention in their weekly mail out. The second option is the Book Blast which costs $20. The Book Blast gets you a guaranteed featured listing in the weekly mail out. Plus a guaranteed Book Bump, and your book posted on 5 to 10 of the largest Facebook groups that are best for its genre.Finally, there is the Premium Book Bang which costs $30. The Bang gets you all of the features in the other two promotions plus your book featured for a week on the Book Bongo homepage banner and in other prime advertising spots on the site. | Not Stated | Free – $30 |
| Book Browse | Book Browse is another book review service. However, the high demand only allows them to promote 30 books a month. They do not charge for their services. | Novels, Historical Fiction, Mysteries, Thrillers, short stories, young adult, biographies, and narrative history and science | Free |
| Book Bub | Book Bub is a great site for readers because they have great deals on Kindle books. Of course, readers are only able to get these deals by promotion. Unfortunately, Book Bub has a stricter submission process than other promotion sites. Their prices are also on the more expensive side. Despite the drawbacks, countless authors have reported huge success after being featured on Book Bub. | All | $25-$500 |
| Book Buzzr | Book Buzzr has a monthly and yearly plan. The monthly plan is only $9 a month and new authors will get a 14 day free trial. The yearly plan is $60. Book Buzzr offers many internet savvy features such as tweets and Facebook posts. | Not Specified | $9-$60 |
| Book Circle | Book Circle has three different options for book promotion. These options are free, premium, and professional. The free option is quite limited, which is why I didn’t include Book-Circle in the free list. However, the premium option gets you guaranteed listing on their Free Kindle Ebooks Page, 1 Tweet, 1 Facebook post, and 1 Banner Ad at $9. The professional option gets you everything included in the premium package plus an E-newsletter Blast at $19. | Not Stated | $9-$19 |
| Book Daily | Book Daily introduces authors to new readers by providing readers with a sample chapter from your novel. However, you are required to make an author account in order to use the service. Such benefits from Book Daily includes a video about your book, an author marketing newsletter, promotion from their free widget, press release information, and more. | All except erotica | Free |
| Book Eel | Book Eel offer a money back guarantee if your book doesn’t get at least 100 downloads for free books, or 30 sales for paid books. They offer two different paid packages depending on your book’s status.If your book is temporary listed as free, your package will cost $10. It includes a boost your book’s free ranking and a money back guarantee. If your book is not free, your package will cost you $30. This package includes a boost your book’s paid ranking and a money back guarantee. | All | $10-$30 |
| Book Goodies | Submit 5 days in advance. Book Goodies has many different paid book promotions that range from $7.50-$45. Check the site out for more details. | All | $7.50-$45 |
| Book Goodies Kids | If you can’t already tell, Book Goodies Kids will only promote books that are aimed at children under the age of 16. But they do have a small section for teens. Their prices range from $49-$229. | Children | $49-$229 |
| Book Gorilla | Book Gorilla does have some guidelines. Erotica is accepted but must have literary quality. Books must have 5 reviews with an average of 4 stars and be over 100 pages in length. Check site for more details. | All | $50 – $100 |
| Book Hitch | Book Hitch offers free as well as paid promotional services. The paid features prices range from $50-$129. These packages include website advertising, newsletters, and advertising. | All | $50-$129 |
| Book Kitty | Book Kitty has two packages at the low prices of $5 and $10. However, your book has to be either free, discounted by 50%, or be a new release. | All | $5-$10 |
| Book Lemur | Book Lemur has no minimum review amount stated. However, the site does state that “the more quality reviews the better.” Pricing depends on the price of your book and genre. | All but erotica | Pricing depends on the price of your book and genre |
| Book Marketing Tools | Book Marketing Tools has a credit system in place for promoting books. Each book you submit costs one credit and each credit is $29. Your credit will get your book promoted to 25+ sites. | Not Specified | $29+ |
| Book of the Day | Book of the Day has both free and paid book promotion services. The paid services will get you front page exposure, newsletter, Facebook posts, Twitter posts, Google + posts, and much more. | All but erotica | Free-$11.95 |
| Book Pinning | Book Pinning is the self-described “Pintrest for books.” All you have to do is fill out a form and upload your book cover image and book. Once you do that, your book will be “pinned” for readers to find. | All except erotica and Children’s Fiction | Free |
| Book Praiser | Book Praiser has many different promotional plans; both paid and free. Read up on each plan to figure out which one is best for you. | All | Free-$180 |
| Book Preview Club | Book Preview Club has cheap promotion details, but they probably won’t promote your book if it has anything they deem offensive. | All but erotica | Free-$20 |
| Book RAID | Your book must be discounted by 50% or more to qualify. Free books are also welcome. Fiction books must be at least 120 pages and non-fiction must be at least 80. Books must also have high quality covers and descriptions. | All | Free |
| Book Reader Magazine | $20 guarantees a featured spot on the Book Reader Magazine homepage for 7 days. Your book will also go out in their newsletter and spread in their social media channels. You also get the option of doing an author interview at no extra cost. | All | $20 |
| Book Review Buzz | Book Review Buzz offers 2 packages for book promotion. The cheaper of the two includes getting your book out there to many different venues, but you would handle getting the reviews. For an additional $10, Book Review Buzz will do that for you. | All | $25-$36 |
| Book Runes | All you have to do to seek book promotion is fill out a form. The cost is only $25 per promotion. | Biographies, history, cooking, health, fantasy, science fiction, fiction, horror, mysteries, thrillers, non-fiction, romance, success and motivation, young adult | $25 per promotion |
| Book Sliced | Book Sliced asks that authors contact them in order to get book promotion details. | Not Specified | Not Specified |
| BookPebble | The Book Pebble has some requirements such as no errors, a good cover, a certain star rating, and a certain length. However, their promotions are currently only $5. | Action and Adventure, Contemporary/Literary Fiction, Steamy/Erotic, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Historical, Romance, Horror, LGBT, Non-Fiction, Young Adult, Romantic Suspense | $5 per promotion |
| BookRaid | Your book must be discounted by 50% or more to qualify. Free books are also welcome. Fiction books must be at least 120 pages and non-fiction must be at least 80. Books must also have high quality covers and descriptions. | African American & Multicultural | |
| Books Butterfly | The really neat thing about Books Butterfly is that they offer a prorated refund if their stated download target is not met. They offer a total of four different packages. These packages are pure gold, all month push, platinum 100, and new release max. Check site for more details. | Not Stated | $50-$500 |
| Books on the Knob | Books on the Knob separates their book promotions by traditional publishers, small publishers, and indie published. However, not a lot of information is given on their services and some of the links are broken. | Not Specified | Not Specified |
| BookSends | Book Sends has some guidelines when submitting books for promotion. These guidelines include at least 5 reviews, with a high overall average, an attractive cover, and a planned sale price of less than $3 and at least 50% off full price. Price varies by genre. | All | Free-$85 |
| BooksGoSocial.com / TheBookPromoter.com | Your Book Promoter is a 3 month service. Service includes a guaranteed number of Amazon book page visitors. There are three different packages that each lasts for the three months. | All but erotica | $49-$249 |
| Booksie | Booksie offers a medium for writers to post their stories on. They hold contests as well. | Not Specified | Free |
| Booktasktik | Booktasktik offers writers a whole lot for their buck. They will send their subscribers daily emails about your book, make Facebooks ads about your book, and much more. | Not Specified | $5-$15 |
| BookTweeters | It’s pretty self explanatory that BookTweeeters will tweet about your book. However, they have a very wide range. They will promote your book over 2 Twitter accounts to over 535,000 users 24 times a day. That’s a tweet an hour! | Not clearly specified | $15-$65 |
| Bookworm World | Bookworm World offers three different packages at very affordable prices. The $20 and $30 packages include Facebook and Google + posts. | Not Specified | $10-$30 |
| Buck Books | Buck Books has a few guidelines. Your book must be 0.99 or less during promotion, book must have at least 10 reviews with an average score of 3.8 or higher, must have a well written book description, and a pro cover design. Fees are based off how well your book does. | Non-fiction and Fiction | Fees based on average of books sold |
| Choosy Bookworm | Choosy Bookworm may be harder to break into, hence the name. However, they have a lot of subscibers. Which means that if you get picked, a lot of readers will be reading your work. | Not Specified | Free-$149 |
| Content Mo | Content Mo enables authors 2 free ads a month that last all day. They will even send you a confirmation email that lets you know what day(s) your book is scheduled to be promoted. Your book must be free of charge to be eligible. Content Mo has a lot of different paid promo deals. Their prices range from $19-$133. Check out the site for more in depth details. | Not Stated | Free – $133 |
| Daily Bookworm | Daily Bookworm has 4 different plans for authors to choose from. Each plan builds up from the one before. | Nor Specified | Free-$50 |
| Daily Cheap Reads | This site no longer provides book promotions, only book reviews. | All but erotica | $5 |
| Daily Free Books | Daily Free Books offers a “highlighting” service, where your book will be seen at the top of all promotions. | No erotica | $7.50-$17.00 |
| DebutCity | DebutCity is unique in that they not only publish novels, but they also promote articles and products. | No offensive content | Free-$20 |
| Digital Book Girl | Digital Book Girl promotes authors and writers for free on Twitter, Facebook, and the official Digital Book Girl site. | Not specified | Free |
| Digital Book Today | Digital Book Today lists over 95% of submitted fiction books for up to 4 days. You just have to make sure that your book follows the site’s guidelines. Perma-free books will be listed for 2-3 days per month. Digital Book Today has several different paid book promotion options. Check out the site for more details. | Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Children’s Books | Free – $15 |
| Discount Book Man | Discount Book Man offers free promotion by giving your book front page access on their website for 5 days. In order to take advantage of this, you must fill out another form. The form includes title of your book, book synopsis, author bio, author site (optional), link to book on Amazon, Twitter, Facebook Fan Page, book cover image, email address, book category, and genre. Discount Book Man offers a Featured Book Listing for $15. Your book will be listed on the front page of their site for 5 days. | All | Free – $15 |
| eBbook Hounds | Ebook Hounds’ guidelines are as followed: nonfiction books must be over 100 pages, fiction books must be over 150, and the book must have at least 10 reviews averaging on 3+ stars. Price is determined by genre. | All | Price is determined by genre |
| eBook booster | eBook Booster will promote single or multiple books to 25-45 different sites. | Not Specified | $25-$35 |
| EBOOK CHRISTIAN | Ebook Christian does promote many different genres of novels. However, since they are a Christian site, your novel probably shouldn’t have any offensive content. | Children’s. poetry, fantasy, romance, how to’s, science fiction, religion, biography, self-help, young adult fiction, non-fiction, suspense, drama, mystery, historical fiction, and spiritual | $5 |
| eBook Deal of the Day | Ebook Deal of the Day costs $5 per marketplace (e.g Kindle, iTunes etc). Also offers a specific Kindle India promotion option. | Not Stated | $5 |
| eBook Lister | Just fill out a simple form to apply for free book promotion. This promotion is open to free e-books, as well as discounted one. Just be sure to follow the guidelines. After submitting your listing,be sure to check your email (and spam box) for your confirmation code. After submitting the code, your listing will be placed in the ‘Review Queue. Listings not confirmed within 7 days are deleted. | All except erotica | Free |
| eBook Lister | Just fill out a simple form to apply for free book promotion. This promotion is open to free e-books, as well as discounted one. Just be sure to follow the guidelines. After submitting your listing, be sure to check your email (and spam box) for your confirmation code from ‘info@ebooklisternet’. After submitting the code, your listing will be placed in the ‘Review Queue. Listings not confirmed within 7 days are deleted. | All except erotica | Free |
| eBook Skill | The Team at eBook Skill has a very active Twitter account. This will be a big help in giving your novel a broader reach. | Not Stated | Free |
| eBook Skill | The Team at E Book Skill has a very active Twitter account. This will be a big help in giving your novel a broader reach. | Not Specified | Free |
| eBook Soda | eBook Soda caters to readers by matching them up with books they like. Your book would be promoted right to its target audience. | Action and Adventure, Africian American and Multicultural, Biography & Memoirs, Children’s & Middle Grade, Contemporary Romance, Cooking & Lifestyle, Crime Fiction, Erotica, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, Horror, Humor, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Mysteries, New Adult & College Romance, Non-Fiction, Paranormal Romance,Religious & Inspirational, Short Stories & Novellas, Teen & Young Adult, Thrillers & Suspense, Woman’s Fiction | $6-$15 |
| eBook Stage | eBook Stage offers five different book promotion packages at varying different prices. However, they also use a points system. | Not Specified | $10-$16 |
| eBook Universe | eBooks links your book promotion with your author blog or website, free of charge. | Not Specified | Free |
| eBookasaurus | Standard book listings will display your book on the first day of promotion on the front page of the eBookasaurus.com website. Your listing will always be available on the site, however, new listings each day appear at the top. Large book covers are required. | All | Free |
| eBooks Habit | eBooks Habit offers three different book promotion packages. They advertise heavily on Twitter. | No erotica or graphic sex | Free-$15+ |
| eReader Cafe | eReader Café provides book promotion free of charge. | No erotica | Free |
| eReader Girl | E-Reader Girl’s free book promotion is only available to author’s whose book is currently free of charge to download. Be sure to check out the submission guidelines BEFORE you submit. E-Reader Girl does not accept any novels that contain profanity, graphic violence, or sexual content. You MUST submit your book at least 24 hours before it goes on as free. The paid book promotion option on E-Reader Girl is $20 per entry. Please remember that E-Reader Girl does not accept any novels that contain profanity, graphic violence, or sexual content. | Non-fiction, Children’s ebooks, and Christian fiction. | Free – $20 |
| eReader Love | Not a lot of unformation is available about eReader Love’s promotion service. However, they do have a form where you can contact them about it. | Not Specified | Not Specified |
| eReader News Today | In order to submit your book to eReader News Today, your book must be available on Amazon and be eiither free or on sale. For more guidelines check out their site. | No erotica or controversal subject matter | $30-$135 |
| eReaderIQ | eReaderIQ offers three different options for getting your book promoted. The first is getting your book featured in their newsletter, the second is being featured on their blog, and the final option is getting a deal with BookSends. | No Erotica or explicit adult content. | $5-$180 |
| Excite Spice | Here’s a site that specializes in the genre of erotica. These are unfortunately hard to come by. | Erotica | Free-$25 |
| Feed Your Reader | This is strictly for your book to be featured on a personal blog. Feed Your Reader does not accept titles that contain erotica, homosexuality or gruesome covers. | No Erotica, GBLT or books with sensual or gruesome covers. | Free |
| Fire and Ice Book Tours | Fire and Ice Book Tours offers three different packages to choose from. Visit the site to see which one is right for you. | Not Specified | $20-$50 |
| Free & Discounted Books | Here is another free book promotion service that only requires you to fill out a form. You will need to include your name, book title, a book synopsis, your targeted age group, and a link to your author home page. However, if you have your book listed on an independent publishing service such as iTunes books, Amazon, Nook, etc., it must be free to download. If your e-book is not free and for a discounted price, then you can take advantage of Free & Discounted Books paid book promotion services. $8 will get your book posted on their site for 30 days. $20 will give your book a permanent spot on their site, as long as your book is under $3. | All | Free – $20 |
| Free Book Club | Free Book Club is another promotion deal for books that are currently listed as free on Amazon. This service is affiliated with the Publishing Profits Podcast. | Not Stated | Free |
| Free Book Service | Free Book Service should probably change it’s name because it has some of the most expensive packages on this list. Hopefully, the benefits are worth it. | Not Specified | $189-$1,499 |
| Free Books | Free Books gives you the option of either a temporary promotion or a permanent promotion with their site. | All but erotica | Free |
| Free Books Hub | Your book will be promoted via email, on the website, and through social media. Extra payments can be made in order to be more prominently displayed on both the site and on Facebook. The paid packages include the priority listing package, book blast package, and the featured author package.The priority listing package is $10. The package includes a free book post in a single page with image, book description, and author details. One tweet to their 50K+ Twitter users. One email to 1000+ eBook subscribers. Finally, if space is available, listing as a featured author.The book blast package is $15. It includes everything from the previous package plus reach ability of more than 100,000+ users and one Facebook blurb with a big picture of your novel.The final package is the featured author package and is $20. You get everything in the book blast package plus a feature in “Featured Author” column on Freebookshub.com and a feature in “Featured Author” column for 1 week of your promotion. | Not Stated | $10-$20 |
| Free Books Hub UK | Your book will be promoted via email, on the website, and through social media. Extra payments can be made in order to be more prominently displayed on both the site and on Facebook. The paid packages include the priority listing package, book blast package, and the featured author package. | Not Specified | 5-15 pounds |
| Free Booksy | Pricing depends on genre. Price ranges from $40-$200. The size of the reader base your book will be promoted to also depends on your genre. Your book will only be shown to fans of that specific genre. | All | $40-$200 |
| Free Discounted Books | If your e-book is not free and for a discounted price, then you can take advantage of Free & Discounted Books paid book promotion services. $8 will get your book posted on their site for 30 days. $20 will give your book a permanent spot on their site, as long as your book is under $3. | All | $8-$20 |
| Free eBooks Blog | Free eBooks Blog does promote books on their website, however, they do not have a lot of information available on their site. You can contact them for more details. | Not Specified | Not Specified |
| Free Kindle Books & Tips | Free Kindle Books & Tips have 2 paid book promotions options. These options are regular book posting and featured book posting. The regular posting rate is at $60 IF your book costs a $1 or above. If your book is .99 cents or less, the rate is $30. The cost of a featured posting is $100 if your book is priced for free on the day of promotion and $125 if your book is priced at .99 cents or above on the day of promotion. | No erotica or offensive themes | $30-$125 |
| Free Kindle Books 4 U | Free Kindle Books 4 U offers free book promotion. However, due to high demand not all books will be accepted. If you choose to donate to the site, you’ll probably have a better chance. | All but erotica | Free |
| Free Kindle Deal | Free Kindle Deal is another deal where your Kindle book has to be free to be eligible for promotion. Just fill out the form. | All | Free |
| Free Me | Not a lot of information available at all. But you can click the various links to try and submit your book. | Not Specified | Not Specified |
| Free Stuff Unlimited | This site isn’t really about book promotion and is more about finding good deals. But you could still ask them about book promotion. | Not specified | Not Specified |
| Free Today | This is actually a Facebook page. It does have some instuctions on how to apply for the book promotions and you can always join the group and chat with other authors. | Not specified | Not Specified |
| Frugal Freebies | Your book must be free of charge to take part in this promotion. | All | Free |
| Frugal Reader | The Frugal eReader advertises solely on Facebook and Twitter, with a combined 11,000+ fans. However, the submit page seems to be down. | ||
| Get Free Ebooks | All you have to do to seek book promotion is fill out a form. | Not Specified | Not Specified |
| Genre Pulse | Genre Pulse has no special requirements and they pride themselves on this. Their pricing starts at $16 + and includes targeting apps and genre specific email lists, 57 available campaign slots per day, 3,000 to over 12,000 email recipients depending on genre, and automated Amazon localized click through. | All | $16+ |
| Good Kindles | Good Kindles has three different book promotion packages. The cheapest is the standard package at $25. This package will get your book listed on Good Kindles’ homepage and in at least one best matching genre category. Plus a feature in their newsletter and social media profiles.The next package is the standard plus at $35. This package includes the two features from the previous package plus an additional full promotion for both features.The most expensive package is the professional package, which will run you $45. For your money, you get everything from the previous two packages plus the possibility to add your blog and/or website link to Good Kindles’ Popular Authors’ Website List. | All | $25-$45 |
| Goodreads | If you choose to promote your book through Goodreads, you get your own author page. | All | Free |
| Hidden Gems Romance | Thousands of quality subscribers and growing daily, newsletter goes out twice a week and price varies on package. All genres of romance. Also has an ARC program for attracting honest reviews. Check out site for more details. | All genres of romance | $10-$30 |
| Hot Zippy | Hot Zippy offers one of the biggest ranges of options and prices available. You can promote your book for up to a month using this service. You can also choose shorter promotional periods, such as one day. You have 3 options to choose from: sale, standard, and campaign. | Not stated | $23 – $330 |
| I Crave Freebies | I Crave Freebies gives top priority to books that already have some good reviews. | No explict or controversial content. | Free |
| I Like eBooks | I like Ebooks has 3 very affordable promotion packages. The first is called silver listing package and is only 99 cents. The package includes a lifetime submission, no monthly fees, and a book cover upload.The second package is the gold listing package and is $5. Gold listing includes lifetime submission, no monthly fees, multiple categories, book cover upload, Facebook and Twitter post, and featured front page spot for 1 week or more.Finally, the sponsored banner page is $10. Sponsored banner includes lifetime submission, no monthly fees, multiple categories, book cover upload, Facebook and Twitter post, 3D realistic book mock-up, featured front page spot for 1 week or more, sponsored banner for one month, and a mention in the I Like Ebooks newsletter. | All | .99 – $10 |
| iAuthor | iAuthor sorts all their promoted books by themes. | All but erotica | $15+ |
| Ignite Your Book | Ignite Your Book has the reputation of being the cheapest paid service available. They only charge you 99 cents for their services, though there are some guidelines. Ignite Your Book only accepts eBooks that are currently available through Amazon.com. They only allow books to be listed once. Your book must be free for the entire time period you list. Your book can only be featured for a total of 14 days. They cannot make changes to your listing once submitted. | Children, Fiction, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Romance, Thriller, and Mystery | 0.99 |
| Independent Author Network | Independent Author Network offers many different book promotion services to choose from. Check out the site to see which one is right for you. | Varies | Varies |
| Indie Author News | Indie Author News asks that you fill out a form to get more information about their book promotion services. | Not Specified | Not Specified |
| Indie Book Lounge | You must make an author account with Indie Book Lounge in order to promote your book. | Not Specified | Free |
| Indie Book of the Day | Do you have kindle books that are free? Or are you in KDP Select and about to use your free days? Whatever the reason, if your book is (or going to be) listed free in the next 30 days, Indie Book of The Day will make those free days count. They will share the promotion via their website, Facebook page, Twitter and Pinterest. | All except erotica | Free |
| Indie Book Promo | Indie Book Promo uses a many different types of social media to get your book will be exposed to a wide audience of readers. | All | $25 |
| Indies Unlimited | Indies Unlimited offers four different free self-service promo features. | No erotica, religious, or poltical books. | Free |
| InkArcade | nkArcade gives indie authors the chance to promote their book in two ways; through newsletter and a permanent listing on their site. | Not Specified | $20-$30 |
| Inkitt | Inkitt not only offers free book promotion, but you also MAY be offered a publishing deal as well. All you have to do is submit your novel to Inkitt, they will promote your novel to thousands of readers, and if their readers love your novel, they might consider offering you a deal. | All accepted except fanfiction | Free |
| Interviews With Authors | Interviews with Authors is another book promotion site that runs through Author Ad Netwotk. | All | $129 |
| It’s Write Now | It’s Write Now offers guaranteed submission for only $10. With a guaranteed submission your book will be featured on the front page of the It’s Write Now site for up to 3 consecutive days, permanently listed in their book blog, featured in subscriber newsletter, shared on Facebook, tweeted on Twitter for 3 days, pinned on Pinterest, and have a written author interview permanently listed ItsWriteNow.com | Not Stated | $10 |
| Jacket Flap | There are four ways to advertise on JacketFlap: self-service advertising, permanent monthly sponsorships, traditional CPM-based advertising, and book widgets. | Children and Young Adult | Not Specified |
| Jungle Deals & Steals | Jungle Deals & Steals does not post ebooks that contain graphic violence, sexual content, paranormal activity, or excessive profanity. | No graphic content, profanity, or paranotmal subjects | Not Specified |
| Just Kindle Books | Just Kindle Books has 4 different paid packages to choose from. The Premium Kindle Book Promotion is $30 and guarantees maximum exposure. The package includes a top spot on the Just Kindle Books homepage for 1 day, a top spot in the Just Kindle Books newsletter, a custom written Facebook post, a post on all other Just Kindle Book social channels: Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, StumleUpon & Tumblr, a top spot on eReaderNation’s homepage, and a top spot in eReaderNation’s newsletter.The 2nd package available is the Premium Book Promotion Plus and it costs $35. This promotion gives you everything in the previous promotion plus an extra 2-3 days of Homepage exposure in our Hot Books section and an option to add an eReaderNation Facebook post.The 3rd option is for those more on a budget. It’s called the Budget Book Promotion and is $15. For your buck, you will receive homepage placement for 1 day, Just Kindle Books’ newsletter placement, a post on all other Just Kindle Book social channels: Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, StumleUpon & Tumblr, eReaderNation’s homepage placement, and eReaderNation’s newsletter placement.The final option is the Kindle Scout Promotion and the price tag is $25. This promotion is strictly for books up for nomination on Kindle Scout. This promotion helps readers discover and nominate your book on Kindle Scout with these features. You get a top spot on the Just Kindle Books homepage for 1 day, a top spot in their newsletter, a custom written Facebook post on Just Kindle Books’ Facebook page, a post on all other Just Kindle Book social channels: Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, StumleUpon, Tumblr, LiveJournal, Delicious, and Plurk, eReaderNation’s homepage placement, and eReaderNation’s newsletter placement. | All | $15-$35 |
| Kate Tilton | The Kate Tilton’s Book Blogger Reach-Out service was designed to be a more flexible option for authors and bloggers than a standard blog tour. For $105, Kate will reach out to her list of bloggers (the Kate Tilton’s Book Blogger Group) with your book or request for reviews/interviews/guest posts/giveaway hosts. | All genres except erotica and steamy romance are accepted. | $105 |
| Kindle Book Promos | If you’ve used the Kindle Publishing Service to publish your book, then Kindle Book Promos is a great option for you. All you have to do is fill out a small form and you can pay for additional days for your promotion. Kindle Book Promos offers 4 different paid options. The guaranteed listing for up to 2 days is $10. The guaranteed listing for up to 5 days is $20. The Featured Freebie for up to 2 days is $25. Finally, the Featured Freebie for up to 5 days is $40. | Not Stated | Free $40 |
| Kindle Book Review | Kindle Book Review has several diifferent options for book promotion. All you have to do is fill out a form. | Not Specified | Free $59+ |
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| Kindle Mojo | Kindle Mojo offers a wide array of options including Twitter, creating a VIP page on the site, and even having ‘prime time tweets’ sent out for a slightly higher price. Kindle Mojo is currently changing its packaging features, since the site is becoming better known.The Featured Author option is a one-time fee of $25. The VIP option is a one-time fee of $75. Check the website for more details. | Not Stated | $25-$75 |
| Kindle Nation Daily | You can buy either daily, weekly or monthly packages, and have the option of choosing to promote to specific genre pages or to the whole site in general. Prices range from as low as $30 to as high as $130. | Not Stated | $30-$130 |
| Korner Konnection | Korner Konnection asks that authors visit their facebook page before submitting their book. | Not Specified | Free |
| Kufads | Kufads offers cheap advertising fees and a wide choice of how and where you advertise and market your book. | No sexual content | $7.50-$17.00 |
| LibraryThing | Want to know something cool about LibraryThing? Famous authors actually use it. Laurie R. King is a LibraryThing author. My mom loves her. | Not Specified | Not Specified |
| Love Lust and Lipstick Stains | Not much information on this site, but you can submit your book to appear in their newsletter. | Not Specified | Not Specified |
| Lovely Book Promotions | Lovely Book Promotions has many different options for paid book promotions. A standard paid book promotion will cost you $20 and includes book cover photo, links, book description, a small author bio and photo, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Google+ and Email Promotions, Front Page Feature for 7 days, and a permanent listing on the Lovely Book Promotions website. | Not Stated | $20+ |
| Many Books | Many Books’ promotional service has a flat rate of $29. For that you will get, a listing in their daily newsletter and they link your book to major retailers including Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Apple, Google & Smashwords.You also get a feature on the Many Books website. This feature includes your book featured on the Many Books homepage with links to Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Apple, Google & Smashwords the same day it is featured in the newsletter. It will then be available in its genre for up to 30 days depending on the length of your promotion/discount. You will also have the option of adding an Author Profile to your book listing with links to your social media profiles and website. | All | $29 |
| Market List | Market Lisr has been around for a long time and allows authors to promote their books by communicating with other writers. | Not Specified | Free |
| Masquerade Crew | Masquerade Crew will tweet about your book starting at just $2! | Not Specified | $2-$50 |
| Mobile Read Forum | This site allows you to self promote your book by the use of a message board. Read the guidelines before posting. | No erotic or explict content | Free |
| My Book Cave | My Book Cave promotes your book by either promoting it on retailer sites and/or putting it in their newsletter. | Not Specified | $5-$20 |
| New Free Kindle Books | For $5 you can guarantee that your eBook is placed on the book shelf on the “Upcoming Free eBooks” page or the “Books Deal” page with a larger image and a partial description below the shelf. | Not Stated | $5 |
| Novel Finds | Novel Finds creates content that matches the theme(s) of your book in order to sell it. | Not Specified | Starting at $39.95 |
| Obooko | Obooko is only interested in authors who want long term book promotion. | All but erotica | Free |
| On BookTalk | On Booktalk offers five different packages for book promotion. Just be sure that your novel has no offensive content. | No offensive content | $30-$585 |
| One Hundred Free Books | One Hundred Free Books offers free and paid book promotion. But if you go with the free version, you are not guaranteed a spot. | Not Specified | Free-$100 |
| Online Book Club | You won’t get much information from this site until you submir. However, they are more of a book review service than a promotional service. | Not Specified | Not Specified |
| Penny Pinchin Mom | The Penny Pinching Mom may review your book if you contact her. | Not Specified | Not Specified |
| People Reads | People Reads are not accepting Children’s or Middle Grade books at this time. Your book must have 10 reviews on Amazon (US and/or UK) with an average rating of 3.9 stars or better. For books with 50+ reviews an average of 3.8 stars or better must be maintained and for books with 200+ reviews an average of 3.5 stars or better must be maintained. People Reads has many different paid book promotion deals. Way too many to write about here. Go to their site, read up on the different offers, and pick the best one for you. | Not Stated | Free – $20 |
| Pin Your Book | PinYourBook.com is a free service provided and maintained by Author Marketing Club | All but erotica | Free |
| Pixel Scroll | Pixel Scroll is run by Hot Zippy. Hot Zippy offers one of the biggest ranges of options and prices available. You can promote your book for up to a month using this service. You can also choose shorter promotional periods, such as one day. You have 3 options to choose from: sale, standard, and campaign. | Not Specified | $23-$330 |
| Planet Ebooks | Planet Ebooks has 4 different packages that depend on the stare of your book. Books with reviews are preferred, but no minimum quantity/score is required. If your book is free, your two options are a $19.95 package and a $29.95 package. If your book is not free, your options are a $29.95 package and a $59.95 package.The $19.95 package includes adverting to 130,000+ worldwide followers on Facebook with multiple posts, a tweet from their Twitter account, a post on their Google + page, a pin on their Pinterest pin board, and a feature on the Planet eBooks website homepage.The $29.95 package has all the benefits of the $19.95 package plus a boost to your Facebook post with paid Facebook advertising and a team up with partnered Kindle book promoters for extra exposure, your book appears in thousands of newsfeeds, your Facebook post pinned to the top of the Planet Ebooks timeline for one day, and links on their website to your own website and Amazon author profile.Next, is the $29.95 package for books that are not listed as free. This package includes advertising to 130,000+ worldwide followers on Facebook with multiple posts linking to your book on Amazon, a tweet from their Twitter account, a post on their Google + page, a pin on their Pinterest pin board, and a feature on the Planet eBooks website homepage.Finally, there is the $59.95 package. This includes everything from the $29.95 package plus a boost to your Facebook post with paid Facebook advertising and a team up with partnered Kindle book promoters for extra exposure, your book appears in thousands of newsfeeds, your Facebook post pinned to the top of the Planet Ebooks timeline for one day, and links on the Planet Ebooks website to your own website and Amazon author profile. | Not Stated | $19.95- $59.95 |
| Pretty Hot Books | In order to submit to Pretty Hot Books, authors must submit a form. On the form you will give a synopsis of your book (there is no length requirement), and introduction of yourself as an author. This service is free, but Pretty Hot Book also has a featured option for $25. Get more exposure for your book by listing it on their front page for 7 days! | Not Stated | Free – $25 |
| Read Cheaply | Read Cheaply targeted daily email reaches over 70K subscribers across 23 genres with passionately engaged readers eager to discover new books and authors. | Not Specified | $25-$100 |
| Read Freely | Your book must be sold at a discount in order to get this service. | All | Free |
| Reader’s Hideaway | Reader’s Hideaway will pin your post about your book to their front page for a specified number of days. Once it is done on the front page, it will remain listed in the Featured Books Category. | All | $20-$99 |
| Readers in the Know | Unlike most book sites where you have to submit your details every time you run a promo, and then wait / hope for someone to add your books on the correct day, Readers in the Know gives you total control over your book and promo management. | Not Specified | 20 pounds |
| Reading Deals | No sexual content or hate speech allowed. Good quality covers only. 10,000 words minimum. Books must have at least 5 reviews with a 4 star rating average. Must be at least 33% off, or free. Reading Deals’ guaranteed submission will run you at $29. This includes guaranteed promotion to over 40,000 readers on their list and more! | Do not approve books with graphic sexual content or hate speech | Free – $29 |
| Red Feather Romance | Each package comes with guidelines that your book must follow. | Not Specified | $80 – $125 |
| Riffle Select | Riffle Select’s guidelines include that the book must be over 150 pages and be professionally edited and presented. Riffle Select offers pricing at $25, $50, $75 and $100 based on list size, category, ebook price and availability. | All | $25-$100 |
| Ripley’s Booklist | Ripley’s Booklist specialuzes in Young Adult and New Adult fiction. | Young Adult and New Adult Fiction | $15 |
| Robin Reads | Books are promoted specifically by genre. Erotica is allowed but featured separately. Books must have a good cover and good reviews to be selected. No minimum reviews. Price is determined by genre. | All | Price paid depends on genre |
| Shameless Book Deals | Shameless Book Deals specializes in erotica. | Erotica | Not Specified |
| Snicks List | Snick list is one of the cheaper paid promotion options. You can choose the number of days your promotion will run, with very small price increases for extra days. If you have a permafree book, your promotion will run for a year for only $5. | All except for erotica | $1-$5 |
| Steamy Romance Books | It is actually quite difficult for erotica writers to find good promotional services. This is because most publishers like to advertise to a larger demographic. Not to say that erotica doesn’t have a large fan base, it just eliminates younger readers. Steamy Romance books specializes in this sometimes hard to market genre. Their rate is $25 dollars for a permanent listing on their site. Really, not a bad deal. | Romance and Erotica | $25 |
| Story Finds | You won’t get much information from this site until you subscibe to it. | Not Specified | Not Specified |
| Sweet Free Books | By listing your book with SweetFreeBooks, you will reach a dedicated audience with a voracious appetite for books in your target genre. | All | $7 |
| The Books Machine | The Book Machine offers a Kindle Daily Deals package and a blog post. | Nor Specified | $35-$55 |
| The Digital Ink Spot | The Digital Ink Spot focuses on audio books. reviews, insights, promotions and sales. | All | Email for inquries |
| The eBook Bandit | The eBook Bandit only promotes free or discounted books. | Not Specified | Free |
| The Fussy Librarian | Your book must also have at least 10 reviews with an average of 3.5 stars +. Once again, pricing depends on genre. | All | $12 – $18Pricing depends on genre |
| The Page-Hungry Bookworm | The Page Hungry Bookworm offers many different promotion packages at very affordable prices. | Not Specified | $3.99 – $10 |
| This Is Writing | This Is Writing is not only a great place to find your next favorite book, but is also a great source of free book promotion! This Is Writing offers you such features as the Author Spotlight Interview, a guest post related to your genre, a book excerpt for readers to get a taste of your talent, book reviewers, and an author and book page. | Any as long as story is fictional. | Free |
| Topless Cowboy | If you can’t tell from the name, Topless Cowboy specializes in specific subject romances and erotica. | Romance/Erotica | Free |
| Wanton Reads | Here is another promotion service that may cater to erotica. However, romance is their main game. | Romance and Adult Romance | Not Specified |
| Whizbuzz | Your book will be promoted on the Whizzbuzz website, to over half a million Twitter users, on Facebook, and Pintrest. | No erotica or offensive themes | $50 |
| WhoWroteWhat | WhoWroteWhat offers three different package deals. | No language or offensive themes | $35 – $100 |
| xtme: gute eBooks | Promote your book here and hundreds of readers could download your book. | Not Specified | $9-$29 |
| Your Book Promoter | Your Book Promoter is a 3 month service. Service includes a guaranteed number of Amazon book page visitors. There are three different packages that each lasts for the three months.The first package is the basic package and it will run you at $49. The basic package includes 2 weeks of tweets to 747,380 readers, 3 months full membership, email and Facebook promotions, 700+ Amazon book page visitors guaranteed, global book promotion, book reviews and support, a free guide, blog post boosts for each month, and online video readings promotion.Next is the mid package, which costs $99. The mid package includes 5 weeks of daily tweets to 747,380 readers, 3 months full membership, email and Facebook promotions, 1,750+ Amazon book page visitors guaranteed, global book promotion, book reviews and support, a free guide, blog post boosts for each month, online video readings promotion, and virtual marketing and training.The final package is the premium package and it is the most expensive at $249. The premium package includes 8 weeks of tweets to 747,380 readers, 3 months full membership, email and Facebook promotions, 2,800+ Amazon book page visitors guaranteed, global book promotion, book reviews and support, a free guide, blog post boosts for each month, online video readings promotion, and virtual marketing and training. | No erotica | $49-$249 |
| Zwoodle Books | Just fill out the form to submit your book. Once again, your book must be free of charge to be eligible. Zoodle will promote your book on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+. | Strict anti-hate policy, no Religious books, no erotica | Free |
Conclusion
With such an extensive list, you should have no problem finding a site that suits your particular needs. Though, keep in mind that there is a lot of information here. It could take you some time to go through it. Also, try not to get too overwhelmed.
My suggestion would be to keep a list of all the sites that meet your requirements and submitting to each one. Eliminate the ones that don’t suit your needs. By submitting to all of the sites that cater to your book, you will have a better chance of getting promoted.
There is enough sites here to suit anyone’s budget as well. Whether you have no budget or a big budget. You can also try the sites you can’t afford right now at a later date. Though keep in mind, you never know when a particular site might go down. We sincerely hope you find what you are looking for and happy promotion hunting! You may even find your next read as well.
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