Anyone used Bookbub?

I'm considering using Bookbub to promote an upcoming price-reduction.

The price, though, is steep for erotic romance — $500 for a $0.99 sale. The Bookbub price sheet suggests that I'd net two or three times the cost.

I'm confident of the book's ability to sell, but still...

The question is, has anyone used Bookbub? If so how did the promotion go for you?

Thanks, Lori and Filagree.

We weren't planning on going free -- there doesn't seem to be a huge benefit to that plan unless you're giving away the first novel in a series. This would be offering a $5.99 collection that currently sells about three copies a week for $0.99. It'd cost $500 - and yes, based on their numbers I'd expect it to sell between 1500-2000 copies, netting ~$1000-$1500, with the added advantage that a certain percentage would go on to buy my other titles -- or possibly the audiobook, which nets $10/sale. But obviously there's no guarantee.

Lori, how far in advance of the sale did you apply?

thethinker42 said:

I applied a week in advance with flexible dates. Obviously still in the trial and error phase, so we'll see how it works out.

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Cool. I'll look forward to hearing how your experiment works — and obviously, I'll try to update here about ours.