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Book Promotions At A Glance

Advertise A Free or 99c Book	Banner Ads
Book of the Day	Genre Book Giveaways
Christmas Reading Hamper	First Chapter Spotlight
List Your Book For Free	Reader Magnet
Reviewer Requests	Cross Promotion Banner Ad Boost
Join Our Mailing List for Authors	Authors Groups on Facebook
High Value Memberships	Our Monthly Newsletters
Exclusive Book Giveaways	Solus Book Launch Email
Readers Advertising Campaigns	Book Hub Help
Build A Book Launch Team	Join our authors mailing list

1: Free to Add Books

Pop over and register before you can submit. Or hit REGISTER on the menu

List your books here

Update your profile so readers can meet you and find out about your books

Details Of Monthly Promotions

With all of our monthly promotions listed below, your book has the potential of being seen by 45K + readers! Previous newsletters can be viewed here. On some occasions or promotions we send to our business list of 75K subscribers.

2: £5 First Chapter Spotlight

What better way to find new readers than to offer them a few chapters to read. If they like the book they will download the book and you get book sales.

Give at least 5 chapters if not more to hook them in ~ up to a point early in your story where you believe they will not be able to put the book down and will rush over to Amazon to download the book to see what happens next. Talk about being caught, hook, line and sinker.

From as little as £5 you'll be growing your mailing list with new reader subscribers because you provide a link on your website or via your emailing provider. Like the other promotions mentioned above, this is very easily done in MailChimp and you can even set up an automated 'welcome' message when they sign up to get your free chapters, which gives them the download link. Your free chapters will be featured in our next newsletter after you make the booking.

You may want to consider a Bronze Membership as Book Hub offers you the chance to promote your first few chapters in each of our monthly newsletters with this membership.
Apply To First Chapter Spotlight

3: £15 Advertise A Free Or Discounted Book

Each month we send a list of free or discounted books to our readers. Authors can sign up to advertise a free book or any discounted book. Free and 99c books get more clicks and response from readers, but we are happy to promote any priced book.

Read author's testimonials at the link below to see how they benefitted from our readers' response. See an example of October's Book Offers Mailer. You may want to consider a Silver or Gold Membership as Book Hub offers you the chance to promote free or discounted books in each of our monthly newsletters with this membership.
Apply To Advertise A Free or 99c Book

4: £15 Review Requests

Each month we send a list of books looking for reviews to our readers. Readers are asked to apply to review the books directly from the author's website or mailing list provider, such as MailChimp.

This gives the author new readers and the chance to engage with these readers in future either by asking their new readers to review more books or telling them about new books being published. Of course, the author also gets a review from the reader.

We ask the reader to review within 30 days of receiving the book and our review response rates are extremely high. This link below shows author's who have used the review request service and how pleased they are with the results.

Our readers love fiction so any fiction review requests tends to perform significantly better than nonfiction. Your offer can link to a page on your website or to directly to your mailing list, (your choice). Either way, you get the email address of everyone who signs up to review your book. Your offer should conform to Amazon's current book review policies, find our details here.

You may want to consider a Bronze Membership as Book Hub offers you the chance to promote 2 x books in each of our monthly newsletters with this membership. Or you could try running an exclusive book giveaway.

Apply To Request Book Reviewers

Details Of Book Promotions

5: £15 Reader Magnet (Author Cross Promotion)

Authors can offer their free books (also called Reader Magnets) to get readers to subscribe to their mailing list in order to download the free book. All authors signing up send details of the 'Free Books' to their mailing lists via their monthly newsletter.

Benefit to Authors: Discover new readers from the combined impact of all the authors mailing the promotion details to their mailing lists. An ideal way to capture new leads and grow your mailing list! Find out what kind of results other authors' have had on the link below.
Apply To Join A Reader Magnet Free Book Promotion

6: £20 Genre Book Giveaways (Author Cross Promotion)

If you are new to the concept of author cross promotions please read this post on The Author's Cross Promotion Guide to find out why, how and where to use cross promotion in your book marketing campaigns.

Previous Success:

June Promo ~ participating authors received 1200 subscribers from competition entries
July Promo ~ participating authors received 1700 subscribers from competition entries

October Promo ~ participating authors received a whopping 2057 subscribers from competition entries

Benefit to Authors: Super-fast mailing list growth! Find out what kind of results other authors' have had on the link below.

Find all our 2017 Author Cross Promotions here.

Reader Magnet Multi Genre Promo:

The last one we did gave authors 1500 - 2000 new optin readers. Book our Summer Multi Genre Cross Promotion here.

7. Exclusive Book Giveaways

Many authors have been asking us where they can promote their giveaway. You can either do this via the various online sites, but most of those people just want free stuff. They may not be readers!

So Book Hub is now offering authors the chance to advertise their exclusive giveaway to our readers. We have a 30k mailing list with six thousand who have specially asked to be notified about giveaways!

Find out more or make your booking for an Exclusive Book Giveaway.

8: Book of The Day

Advertise your book in the Book of The Day banner ad you can see in the top right hand corner of all reader pages.

Apply For A Book of the Day Advert

9: Banner Ads

Advertise your book with a personalised banner that you provide. It will be featured in right hand column of all reader pages.

Apply For A Banner Ad

10. Cross Promotion Banner Ad Boost

Boost your sales and email sign up with a banner advert on our cross promotions pages. Your book banner advert will be seen by thousands of new readers coming to enter our book bundle giveaways!
£10 for a sidebar banner advert (220 x 220 px) and £20 for a top banner advert (728 x 90px).

Book Your Banner Boost.

IMPORTANT: When you have made the payment, please send your jpeg banner advert and which cross promotion you would like to place your advert. Remember ~ readers do cross genres so even if you don't write in these promo genres, you can't lose by reaching thousands of new readers, the Feb cross promotions will deliver your advert to more than 122, 000! Choose from these genre cross promotions. This link takes you to a page of contests so you can decide which one you want your banner advert to be on.

11. Genre Book Launch Solus Email

As our lists are growing fast we are offering authors the chance to tell our readers listed in different genres about their book launch, or special promotion as a solus email. This means that we send an email to our genre lists with only your book's message. This is in beta testing stage so please contact us if you want more information on this.

12. Reader Advertising Campaigns

We are actively seeking advertisers with large lists of readers and working with them to send email campaigns to their readers.

If you'd like to be the first to know about any new campaigns, please make sure you are on our Authors Mailing List and be sure to add our contact email to your email provider contact list so we don't land in your junkbox. You will find this email when you subscribe.

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