Book Promoting Sites

Goodreads for sure. Here's a link. http://www.goodreads.com/

Here are 2 free ones:

http://www.bookwhirl.com/Online-Directory-Listing.php

http://www.published.com/

Given Bookwhirl's poor rep for spamming and poor English skills, that might not be a good one to associate your book with?

Several More:

http://www.bauuinstitute.com/Marketing/BookListingSites1.html

Book Town, Author Island, Authors Promoting Authors, AReCafe (for romance), The Romance Studio,

I also like blog tours. Finding bloggers, highly influential ones of course, in your genre or subject and setting up interviews. Direct links to Amazon, the bloggers get their affiliate fee, and everyone's happy.

I have just set up a new blog to help with promotion. Take a look at: Author Promotion

I've been sharing chapters of my work on places such as Scribd, Wattpad and Inkpop. Not much traffic from them, but it's one of my 'set and forget' options. I focus more on social marketing right now, but plan on going headfirst with review blogs and of the like later.

veinglory said:

Given Bookwhirl's poor rep for spamming and poor English skills, that might not be a good one to associate your book with?

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Definitely avoid BookWhirl.

You can take a look at my site. Bookchew.com

I've heard about Library Thing but, honestly, haven't used it. Is it any good?

I've been compiling a list: disregard my color coding...



www.published.com
www.bookhitch.com
www.authorsden.com
www.slake.com
www.authortree.com
www.writers.net
www.listal.com
http://www.sharing-books.com/
http://weread.com/
www.writerscafe.org
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www.discoverabook.com
www.nothingbinding.com
www.editred.com
http://reader2.com
www.goodreads.com
www.bibliophil.org
www.librarything.com
www.shelfari.com
www.booksie.com
www.xenite.org/internet_authors/announcebooks.html
www.polkadotbanner.com
www.booktour.com
http://www.freado.com/
http://www.filedby.com/
www.redroom.com
www.chainreading.com
www.gurulib.com
http://www.bookarmy.com/
www.zazieweb.fr (French site)
www.connectviabooks.com
www.shelfcentered.com
www.booktribes.com
www.bookswellread.com
www.babelio.com (French site)
www.anobii.com
www.litpitch.com
www.booklicker.com
www.jacketflap.com
www.ibookdb.net
www.shared-self-publishing.com
www.axisavenue.com
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MartinD said:

I've heard about Library Thing but, honestly, haven't used it. Is it any good?

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I just signed up for this recently... i'll let you know my take on it in the coming weeks.

Fast growing newcomer Wonderful reads of the Month . To understand how that works, read this guestpost

epublishabook said:

Fast growing newcomer Wonderful reads of the Month . To understand how that works, read this guestpost

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When the site didn't load after 30 seconds I gave up. Are you involved with this site? They could use some feedback about webdesign IMHO.

Can someone explain to me how these sites work?

Use small words please.

I just landed a contract for my MS to be published as an E-Book and while it still has to go through their editor, I want to be ready to promote it.

I'm gonna do a website and blog, but I don't know where to go with them.

victoriafoyt said:

I've been compiling a list: disregard my color coding...



www.published.com
www.bookhitch.com
www.authorsden.com
www.slake.com
www.authortree.com
www.writers.net
www.listal.com
http://www.sharing-books.com/
http://weread.com/
www.writerscafe.org


www.discoverabook.com
www.nothingbinding.com
www.editred.com
http://reader2.com
www.goodreads.com
www.bibliophil.org
www.librarything.com
www.shelfari.com
www.booksie.com
www.xenite.org/internet_authors/announcebooks.html
www.polkadotbanner.com
www.booktour.com
http://www.freado.com/
http://www.filedby.com/
www.redroom.com
www.chainreading.com
www.gurulib.com
http://www.bookarmy.com/
www.zazieweb.fr (French site)
www.connectviabooks.com
www.shelfcentered.com
www.booktribes.com
www.bookswellread.com
www.babelio.com (French site)
www.anobii.com
www.litpitch.com
www.booklicker.com
www.jacketflap.com
www.ibookdb.net
www.shared-self-publishing.com
www.axisavenue.com
[FONT=&quot]http://www.bookarmy.com/[/FONT]

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Wow. Thanks! I had no idea there were so many.

And as you can see, I changed the color-coding for my old tired eyes.

No problem Dannica!!

I'd say Shelfari, LibraryThing and Goodreads are the main ones to worry about. The others might be good (I wouldn't know, as I haven't explored them), but those three are the main ones I see linked on reviewer websites in my genres (romance, urban fantasy, etc).

Thanks you all for these informations. That was just what I needed.

Does anyone have any concrete data on if these sites actually produce any results? Is anyone seeing a difference in sales/traffic/interest after posting?

A lot of promotion feels like taking shots in the dark.

Thanks

I have had literarally thousands of reads on Booksie for dozens of novels and articles, but I couldn't really tell you if that translated into any sales. Heck, it might have, because I've put up sample chapters, but there is no way for me to tell. I do know that the net-working traffic is rather slow, but there are readers out there that click on me all the time.

Tri

I have been getting some website traffic through from these sites but like triceratops says it's really hard to say if it's translating to sales.

I was reading a good article about SEO (search engine optimization) for websites the other day though and they said that it's good to have your site listed in as many places as possible online. With that in mind, it probably can't hurt to sign up for them and link back to your website if you have one.

It only takes a few minutes per site... so it's probably worth it in my opinion.

Wow, Victoria. What a list. Thank you! And thanks to all the others posting the sites they find. I have an ebook coming out in 2 weeks and who knew all these sites existed? I sure didn't...