Hello authors,
Thank you for visiting sites: Digital Book Today and The Top 100 Best Free Kindle Books List.
Digital Book Today encourages our authors to engage in a Platform Building and Marketing Campaign where Digital Book Today is just one part of a total solution to greatly increase the visibility and sales of your book(s). Many authors will choose to combine product placement with a KDP Select free day (if enrolled) and/or other book/author sites. Being enrolled in KDP select is not a requirement. For authors that are enrolled in KDP select they can combine their marketing efforts by also getting their book listed on The Top 100 Best Free Kindle Books List. This actively used list by readers in October had 14,627 new visitors (the analytics do not show return visitors) and more importantly 59,000+ clicks on books that took them into Amazon. A percentage of those visitors will continue to look at other books on Amazon before coming back to our list.
We also do a daily email to our subscriber list. This email is the same post of the 10 best free books that is posted daily on Digital Book Today. The links take them to Top 100 Best Free Kindle Books list which is updated daily.
Promotional Opportunities
Search engines love to see links, unique content, and traffic as a way of highlighting search results. Listed below are several ways to have Digital Book Today or The Top 100 Best Free Kindle Books List can feature your book with a free or a paid product placement.
Website: Digital Book Today
1) Feature your book(s) for 7 days on Digital Book Today with a Book Display Ad.
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Sign up for our “author’s only” mailing list to be notified of ad buy date and other promotions. See details below.
2) Feature your book or event with a 7 Day Header Ad on Digital Book Today.
- Sign up for our “author’s only” mailing list to be notified of ad buy date and other promotions. See details below.
- Follow this link to see more details on this promotion and the ordering page.
4) Weekly Featured “Great Reads”.
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This is a free promotion.
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Limited to availability.
- All available Dates for the first half of 2013 have been filled as of 1/24/2013 with 160 submissions.
- We will begin taking submissions for the second half of 2013 in June.
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This is a free promotion. Limited to availability.
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Currently accepting posts.
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Blog posts need to be of interest to readers not writers.
7) Promote Your Book On Its Free Day With A Paid Promotional Boost
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Promote your book on its first free day by being featured on Digital Book Today, The Top 100 Best Free Kindle Books List, and being the featured book on our daily mailing list.
- Follow this link to see more details on this promotion.
- To submit your book for its free days to The Top 100 Best Free Kindle Books List please see Option #12 below.
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Feature your newest release.
- Promote your book when it is on sale.
- Sale prices between $0.99 – $5.99.
- Follow this link to see more details and to purchase this promotion.
Website: Top 100 Best Free Kindle Books List.
This one page site receives a large amount of new and repeat traffic daily.
10) Top 100 List – 7 Day Sponsor Ad
- Sign up for our “author’s only” mailing list to be notified of ad buy date and other promotions. See details below.
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Get your book listed after the 10th book on our list.
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A big display ad that stands out from all the other books.
12) Submit your free book to be included in The Top 100 Best Free Books List
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Get your free book noticed.
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Please check the minimum guidelines and the types of books we accept.
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No exceptions to the minimums due to high demand.
“Author Only” Mailing List sign-up
Sign up for our “Author Only” mailing list to be notified of promotions, advertising, and opportunities to highlight your books. Scroll down any page on Digital Book Today and in the right hand column is a sign up form.
Digital Book Today along with our partners support a marketing strategy called layering for indie book authors. Author Jeff Bennington describes this successful process. Find out more about this marketing strategy or get the completed details in his book The Indie Author’s Guide to the Universe. The following is a quote from his book. “When you buy an ad or join a promotion, remember that you’re not buying sales, you’re buying publicity, which is more about getting your name out there than selling books. If you market well and have a great book that is professionally edited, book sales may come later as a result of those efforts, but they are never guaranteed. There are many factors that affect your book sales and it is NOT the job of the website owner or promoter to manage your cover art, book page, product description, and other marketing activities. That’s all on you.“
“A marketing campaign is a daily endeavor and the road to success is laid one brick at a time. I’ve seen each effort I make on behalf of my books build on the last effort and gradually, in 6 months, I have made headway. My books started out in the 300,000 rankings. Now I stay above 20,000 and often above 10,000. Sales are steady and best of all, I just recently became agented! It’s simply a matter of consistently tending the fire.” ~ Author Barbara Sissel
