In May I posted a blog about using websites that help authors sell books. Essentially, these are websites that offer bargain book deals to people who sign up to their mailing lists – with the authors paying for their books to appear on the list. The process is simple, discount your book on Amazon (or alternative retailer of choice) and pay a fee for your book to appear on the bargain book website as a book deal of the day….
I’ve self-published two books, The Keeper of Portals in 2017 and The Archivist in 2022. With the editing, cover, printing and various marketing options, these books were far from cheap. If I consider only the costs involved in making the books (editing and printing) then The Keeper of Portals cost £3,362 and The Archivist cost £5,573. The reason The Archivist cost more was because I spent more on editing. The Keeper of Portals only had a copy edit and a…
Bargain book websites offer to promote your book at a discounted rate to their lists of readers for a fee. This fee is often small, and with the opportunity for details of your book to land in 200k+ inboxes, you’d be crazy to pass the opportunity up. But how many book do you really sell? Does the money made from the books cover the cost of the promotion? Is the entire thing, very possibly, a bit of a scam? TL;DR…