I don't remember seeing anything about storycartel.com on this board, but I don't lurk as regularly here as I do on others, so if it has come up, sorry!
I hadn't heard of storycartel until another author mentioned it. She said she'd had some success with it in getting reviewers and boosting awareness of her book. The idea is authors offer books for free for a certain period of time, in exchange for both reviews and the emails of those who've downloaded the book (so they can target them for marketing later).
There doesn't appear to be any way of tracking whether readers leave reviews or rewarding those who do (unlike, say, LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program), which makes me wonder if a lot of people aren't just using it to harvest free books.
I can't figure out if it's only for self-pub authors and I don't want to go through the signing up process before I figure it out. Certainly a lot of the books on there look self-pubbed - I couldn't see anything publisher branding on them - but that could just be the books available this week. The home page mentions working with traditional publishers, but doesn't list any.
Has anyone here used it? Did you get results? What were the terms and conditions like for authors?
I hadn't heard of storycartel until another author mentioned it. She said she'd had some success with it in getting reviewers and boosting awareness of her book. The idea is authors offer books for free for a certain period of time, in exchange for both reviews and the emails of those who've downloaded the book (so they can target them for marketing later).
There doesn't appear to be any way of tracking whether readers leave reviews or rewarding those who do (unlike, say, LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program), which makes me wonder if a lot of people aren't just using it to harvest free books.
I can't figure out if it's only for self-pub authors and I don't want to go through the signing up process before I figure it out. Certainly a lot of the books on there look self-pubbed - I couldn't see anything publisher branding on them - but that could just be the books available this week. The home page mentions working with traditional publishers, but doesn't list any.
Has anyone here used it? Did you get results? What were the terms and conditions like for authors?
