One of the most powerful ways to promote your book is to offer it for free for a limited time. Why? You need to remove all resistance separating your book from your readers – including a price tag. Not forever, but enough to get a ton of downloads and some thoughtful reviews, which will help sell the book.
But here’s a secret strategy to turbo-charge your book giveaway promotion: when you offer your book for free, contact a shit-ton (a lot) of sites that promote Free Kindle Ebooks and let them know your book is available for free.
This would be a great thing to outsource – you could probably find someone willing to do it for you for around $50. (However, try not to blast out at everybody – your book probably won’t be appropriate for everything on this list. Make sure you or your assistant check to see if the website only deals with certain categories or types of books, and if it’s not a good fit, don’t waste their time…)
How to do it
Visit the following sites and see what they need (click the links, which will take you to specific free-ebook-submission information). Fill out the form or send a simple email like “Hi! Just wanted to let you know my book, “MY TITLE” will be available for free for the next three days at this link: www.myfreebook/amazon/etc. – here’s a short summary and a jpg of the cover. Thanks so much for sharing this with your readers!”
Places to promote your book/ebook.
Some of these are just for free books, or kindle books, some are for cheap books, some are open-ended. Just try your best, submit to all during your launch, try to get as many downloads as possible in the shortest amount of time. To really do well, couple your launch with some kind of reward system (like $20 amazon cards for the top 10 rated reviews on Amazon by a certain time).
How to really do a free book promo on Kindle (and get a ton of downloads)
Websites
- Addicted to Ebooks
- Books on the Knob
- Ebook Deal of the Day
- Ebook Deal of the Day UK
- Ebooks ‘n’ Bytes
- Ebook Directory
- Ebooks Habit
- Ebook Jungle
- Ebook Palace
- Ebooks Portal
- Free Kingle Ebooks
- Free Kindle Fiction
- Idea Marketers
- Indie Book of the Day
- Kindle Daily Nation
- Kindle Finds
- Kindle Hook
- Kindle Spice.com
- TheFrugalReader
- Addicted to Ebooks
- Amazon Forum
- Author Marketing Club (1)
- Author Marketing Club (2)
- Bargaine book hunter
- Booktalk
- Centsibleereads
- Daily free ebooks
- Digital book today
- Ebooklister
- Ebooks free daily
- Ereader news today
- Fkbooks and tips
- Flurries of words
- Free book dude
- Free books hub
- Free books hub.co.uk
- Free booksy.com
- Free ebooks daily
- Get free ebooks.com
- Gospel ebooks
- Indies unlimited
- Kindle boards
- Pixel of ink
- Published.com
- Snickslist
- Story finds
- That book place
- The cheap
- The kindle book review
- The kindle daily deal
- Virtual Ebooks
- Wisdom Ebooks
- Many Books
- Goodkindles – Book Promotion Website
- http://www.facebook.com/allthingskindle
- https://www.facebook.com/AontheC (Authors on the Cheap)
- http://www.facebook.com/authormarketingclub
- http://www.facebook.com/bookgoodies
- http://www.facebook.com/earthsbooknook
- https://www.facebook.com/ebooksfreefreefree
- https://www.facebook.com/ebooksofhorror
- https://www.facebook.com/effectiveteachingsolutions (YA/ MG educational fiction only)
- http://www.facebook.com/eReader1
- http://www.facebook.com/freeebookdeal
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/FreeTodayOnAmazon/
- http://www.facebook.com/fkbooksandtips
- https://www.facebook.com/galleycat
- http://www.facebook.com/iauthor
- https://www.facebook.com/indiebookslist
- http://www.facebook.com/IndieBookLounge
- http://www.facebook.com/IndieKindleWLC
- http://www.facebook.com/kindle
- https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kindle-Finds/217115528350246
- https://www.facebook.com/KindleFreebies
- http://www.facebook.com/KindleKorner
- https://www.facebook.com/kindledailydeal
- https://www.facebook.com/mobileread
- https://www.facebook.com/onlyromance
- http://www.facebook.com/readingkindle
- https://www.facebook.com/pages/Share-FREE-eBooks/146399952110055
- http://www.facebook.com/TheKindleObsessed
- http://www.facebook.com/weloveebooks
- http://www.facebook.com/#!/StoryFinds
Facebook Groups:
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/393191694044036/
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/431062386914229/
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/341840249197060
- http:// www.facebook.com/ groups/UK.Kindle.Reading
- http://www.twitter.com/4FreeKindleBook
- http://www.twitter.com/
- http://www.twitter.com/Booksontheknob
- http://www.twitter.com/Bookyrnextread
- http://www.twitter.com/DigitalBkToday
- http://www.twitter.com/DigitalInkToday
- http://www.twitter.com/fkbt
- http://www.twitter.com/
- http://www.twitter.com/Free_kinde
- http://www.twitter.com/Freebookdeal
- http://www.twitter.com/Freebookdude
- http://www.twitter.com/Freebookpromos
- http:// www.twitter.com/FreeKindleDude
- http:// www.twitter.com/FreeKindleBooks
- http:// www.twitter.com/FreeKindleStuff
- http:// www.twitter.com/FreeReadFeed
- http:// www.twitter.com/Ilovefreebooks
- http:// www.twitter.com/KindleBookKing
- http://www/twitter.com/KindleBookPromo
- http://www.twitter.com/KindleDaily
- http://www.twitter.com/kindleebooks
- http://www.twitter.com/KindleEbooksUK
- http://www.twitter.com/Kindlefantasies
- http://www.twitter.com/KindleFreeBook
- http://www.twitter.com/KindleFreeBookz
- http://www.twitter.com/Kindlenews
- http://www.twitter.com/Kindle_promo
- http://www.twitter.com/Kindle_releases
- http://www.twitter.com/Kindlestuff
- http://www.twitter.com/KindleUpdates
- http://www.twitter.com/PixelofInk
- http://twitter.com/theluvofbooksya
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2 Comments
Thanks for this useful list.
Another site worth adding to your excellent list for Kindle Book Promotion that gets results.
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