Seumas Gallacher shares his valuable opinion about book promo sites. I would say this is a huge MUST-READ for newbies like me!! Thanks so much for this, Seumas! You rock!!
…I promised yeez a wee while ago to revert with the success or otherwise of dabbling in the ‘give-us-yer-money-and-we’ll-get-yeez-gazillions-of-sales-for-yer-masterpieces’ websites… I’m never averse to trying new (for me) channels and avenues for prospective book sales, and am currently giving this field a whirl… early returns are disappointing so far… let me recap :
All the sites require titles ALREADY to have been reasonably successful, with a certain number of reviews rating at least 4-star or above…
All the sites require a significant discount to normal pricing.
Website 1…
Paid US$ 15 for a one day exposure for one title in a list of prob’ly around 40 or 50 others, with the title remaining on their ’trailing list’ for a further unspecified period…
Email list (they claim) is 35,000
Result: Sales for the period through this channel — 2 copies only…
Conclusion– A waste of this author’s time and money…
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