If your author website is nothing more than a static business card, you’re missing a huge opportunity to connect with fans and sell more books. Your site should be a marketing tool that serves ...
Marketing books online can be a time-consuming task for authors and publishers alike, especially these days when there’s so much noise online. Not only do you need to break through the clutter,...
An author’s career is fraught with emotional ups and downs, but the author community is a hugely supportive bunch. Indie authors often band together by participating in forums, forming writing ...
In today’s publishing landscape, authors and publishers alike need to know how to market themselves and their books to stand out from the hundreds of thousands of books published each year. An...
Think people don’t judge books by their covers? Think again. Despite the shift to digital, your book cover still matters – it’s the first thing potential readers see when browsing an Amazon...
This is a guest post from bestselling hybrid author Cheryl Kaye Tardif, author of How I Made Over $42,000 in 1 Month Selling My Kindle eBooks. As a bestselling suspense author who has been ind...
When we first announced on the KBoards Writers’ Cafe that we were going to host a live online Q&A, authors seemed pretty enthusiastic – though some worried that the traffic would overwhelm th...
Join us this week for a live question and answer session in the KBoards Writers’ Cafe! On February 3rd and 4th (tomorrow and Wednesday) from 10am-5pm EST, members of the BookBub Partners team...
Just a few months after our expansion to the UK , we’ve added another region to our growing list of options for subscribers and partners: Canada! With more than 150,000 local subscribers afte...
A guest post from graphic designer Matt Tanner. Whether you like it or not, your cover is the face of your book, and you will be judged by it. You’ve put a great deal of work and thought in...
A guest post from USA Today bestselling author, Claire Cook. A quote from one of my books, which is always popping up somewhere on the Internet, turned out to be great advice for my own ca...
These days, it seems that everyone’s busy crafting his or her next witty Tweet, spending hours creating the perfect Pinterest board, or selecting the right filter for an Instagram post. With ...
Welcome to the New Year, BookBub Partners! Last year was an exciting one for us here at BookBub, thanks in large part to the fantastic books many of you featured with us. But we have big plans f...
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Every family has its secrets — sometimes small ones, like which sibling broke the living room lamp, and sometimes ones that conceal entire years of history. The discovery of these hidden truths...
Sales differ significantly across BookBub categories . But how much is that variation due to simple differences in subscriber counts vs. discrepancies in reader engagement? We can start to answ...
Are BookBub editors more likely to select a book being offered for free than one at $0.99-$2.99? We’ve outlined our editorial process on Unbound before, but in this post we’ll specifically ...
In a letter to our partners earlier this year, our co-founder Josh Schanker outlined some of the initiatives our new funding would allow us to pursue. One of these was to “test new offerings f...
Since BookBub launched in the UK in September, a number of authors and publishers have come to us with questions about discounting their books across the pond. While setting up a promotion comes...
In case you missed the coverage — next Friday is a big day in the US. It’s Black Friday. To celebrate the calm before the storm, and some of the books we’re going to be reading over the h...