Advertisement Sites Summaries
Cost: $129
Evaluation: Risky, but if it is at the top of the list, it might be worth looking at. Not much information exists. Seems like a collection of sites that may not really have much reach. People have mixed reviews, what few reviews exist off of the site itself. If the site does what it says it does, it might be worth looking at, but I can’t see anything definitively assuring me of their effectiveness.
Cost: $5 for Free Book Feature $10 for Premium Book Feature
Evaluation: It costs so little it seems like there is little reason not to use it for any free books you have. This really just sends out an advertisement for any free books you have to their website and Facebook and Twitter. Their Twitter page has 2,223 followers. Their Facebook has 4,086. That could be a lot of reach for the amount you are paying. It is uncertain whether or not the $10 option is a better deal than the $5, because the $10 option just adds the benefit of getting your book on their web page.
Cost: Free to just get on the site. Paid promotions cost $15 per day for Free books. Paid promotions for bargain cost books (2.99 or less) cost $25. Daily Focus (the biggest thing on the page) costs $25.
Evaluation: Has potential. They claim to have 96200+ followers on their email list. The site looks really shoddy, though. I think this is the kind of site for the people that are really just looking out for freebies or bargains. It may not generate a lot of new followers. If their Reach is as wide as they claim it is, it is a good investment.
Cost: Free
Evaluation: If you have a free book you would like to promote, this would seem to have little downside. They have 2,795 Facebook followers, 4,336 Twitter followers, and 293 Pinterest followers, they would be reaching with your submission.
Cost: Free for the basic option. $10 for the middle option. $15 for the most expensive.
Evaluation: For the cost, it seems like a great deal. They have 274K Twitter followers that you will be able to reach. This one seems like it has little downside.
Cost: $10
Evaluation: For a book priced at $0.99 or below, this seems like it could be a good deal. You can reach their 15.8K Twitter followers, 3,343 Facebook followers, and their 404 Pinterest followers. You get posted on the blog and get on their front page for three days and get three days of tweets regarding your book.
Cost: $35 base but more expensive books than $0.99 get a cost increase.
Evaluation: Seems very promising but pricey. As the website says: “Right now BookLemur has 12,800+ subscribers plus 7,700+ Facebook followers. The most expensive category is only $35 so that means you can potentially reach 20,500+ active ebook readers for only 2 tenths of a cent each!” They have been rated very highly by a great many people on their Facebook page and it seems evident that they are very professional. I certainly think you are going to be getting a good service but I’m not sure it is worth the price. It seems to have a name brand recognition that could add notoriety to a book that might account for something.
Cost: Free
Evaluation: If you have a free book, it seems like it might be a good deal but it could also be kind of shady. You could reach their 84K Facebook followers and 4K Twitter followers, but the site seems like it is just run by one person. There is no guarantee of professional quality here and it seems like this site has no focus on books. This site is for all kinds of free stuff. It seems like it wouldn’t cost you anything and could rope in a few new readers but there is no certainty here.
Cost: Free
Evaluation: It is just a place with a bunch of links to different places to promote your book. Possibly a useful tool.
Cost: Free or $10 for the better package.
Evaluation: The testimonials seems to say that this is a great opportunity, but I haven’t been able to get to their Social Media to see how many people they reach. I have a feeling this site is worth your time but, outside of the site itself, I haven’t found anything to confirm my hunch.
Cost: Starts at $23
Evaluation: Risky. Not much information exists on this site. The only person I could find talking about this site says it wasn’t worth his time. Bargain ebooks specifically has 43K Facebook followers and 3K Twitter followers. Hot Zippy would also give you access to a site aimed at the horror genre, a romance site, and a site called Pixel Scroll that has 41K Facebook followers and 1K Twitter followers. The limited amount of information that can be gathered about this site plus the negative review leads me to believe that this may not be a good investment.
Cost: Free
Evaluation: Uncertain. This is a person’s blog. I have no way to gauge his or her reach. This could be good or a waste of time. It is hard to say.
Cost: Free
Evaluation: Uncertain. They have 5K Twitter followers. This really isn’t a comparatively large reach but it doesn’t seem as though it is a scam and it costs nothing so it might be worth looking at.
Cost: Variable.
Evaluation: Avoid. This site is just too shady. Whoever designed this is so inept, I have no confidence in their effectiveness.
Cost: Variable
Evaluation: Has potential. On first glance, the site looks a little shady, but it seems to have been created by someone with some good standing in the community. The site has 14K Twitter followers and 37K Facebook followers. If their own claims about their reach are true then they have even more reach than that and a long history of service for authors. The forums seem to say that few sales come as a consequence of these promotions. The site itself may come with more exposure than sales, but it might still be worth it. This site looks like a place that has enough respect from the community that your book will gain respectability by association.
Cost: Starts at $35
Evaluation: Good site but a little pricey. This seems to be a venerable old site with 6 years of operation and 416K Facebook followers. Forums say that this is a good deal that has provided decent results.
Cost: Free
Evaluation: For bargain and free books this seems like a deal with average potential. They have 3K Facebook followers. Other sites say that this is a good deal.
Cost: Free
Evaluation: Unimpressive. They seem to have a fairly small reach with just over 1K Facebook followers, but it costs nothing. This site is only for free books, however.
Cost: $10 or $0.99
Evaluation: Looks promising. They claim to have 35K people on their mailing list and they have 26.8K Twitter followers. The large number of Twitter followers makes this look like a pretty good deal, because many of these sites don't have much of a presence on Twitter. Some downsides: the book must be free and the site doesn't really seem to have a focus on your genre, though it is clear that science fiction and fantasy do exist on the site.
Cost: Free
Evaluation: Middling to lower end site. The have 3K Twitter followers and claim to be currently serving 3K Authors. The site itself is shoddily made, which doesn't help matters. If its looks have deceived me, it could be a middling opportunity.
Cost: $10-40
Evaluation: Promising. With 20K Twitter followers, this site looks professional and would seem to have a large reach, though this is hard to gauge with only Twitter to work off of. It will only advertise free of bargain books, however.
Cost: $10
Evaluation: Has potential. This is a professionally put together site with a seemingly large reach. They have 9K Facebook followers and 22K Twitter followers which is an impressive amount of Twitter followers. If you have a free book you would like to promote, this site might just be a good place to do it.
Cost: $5
Evaluation: Unimpressive. This site has a small reach and it is only for free books.
Cost: Free-$25
Evaluation: Promising. The site is very professionally done and they seem to have a large reach. With 6K Facebook followers and 13K Twitter followers they obviously have done something right. They support a wide variety of genres, including fantasy, which is more than can be said for some of these sites.
Cost: $1-5
Evaluation: Promising. Snick's List would seem to be recommended by 41 different sites that they listed. 4K followers isn't much to brag about, but the other sites' recommendation would seem to say that they have more reach than it would appear, likely people that keep an eye on their site or are on a mailing list.
Cost: $10-50
Evaluation: Not a good investment. They are really pricey for an honestly pathetic reach. I would avoid spending much time or money on this.
Cost: $20-35
Evaluation: Costly but worth it. They have a surprisingly huge reach. 80K Facebook followers doesn't happen for no reason nor does 20K Pinterest followers. This may be a very good investment.
Cost: Free-$35
Evaluation: Uncertain. It is impossible to gauge their reach. They don't seem to have any social media, or at least no Facebook.
Cost: $7.99 per day of ad.
Evaluation: Possibly a good investment for a free book. They have 41K Facebook followers and 3K Twitter followers. That Facebook following suggests at least a better than average reach. It seems a little pricey but the social media posts are eternal, so it might be worth even a day for those.
Cost: Up to $50
Evaluation: Pricey but could be a good investment. Despite a comparatively small presence on social media, they are highly praised by some respectable sources for their ability to generate sales. I'm not quite sure what to make of this one. It seems to cost a lot because you pay by the click. The more people that click on your ad, the more you pay. You could be paying a lot or very little. It seems like there is a cap you can place on it, but it is unclear. This could be a good but pricey investment.
Cost: $40+
Evaluation: Pricey but possibly very good. They have only 14K Facebook followers but they have featured some really big name authors, including George R. R. Martin (You know that caught my eye). It would seem that they really try to only accept top quality bargain or free priced books. Though it is hard to tell exactly, this could be worth a try.
Cost: $100-400 for Indie authors.
Evaluation: Expensive but could be highly profitable. This one took me down a rabbit hole. There are apparently a number of writers claiming this site is a scam. I will provide you a link to an article debunking those claims: http://www.njtanger.com/books-butterfly-is-not-a-scam/ This is a more expensive service than most and I think it causes some authors to become very suspicious and look for any excuse to get money back. They claim to have 5 Million+ readers and have a number of screenshots to back up this claim which can be found on the site. They have even listed their average results by genre. For Fantasy genre books the results are around 700 to 1,500 downloads using their Pure Gold slot. This would seem to be the slot that most fantasy authors opt for, so, if you use this service, I recommend the Pure Gold option at $100. With all of these readers and results they also have testimonials which seem to say nothing but good things about the site.
Cost: Free
Evaluation: Large reach for little cost. With 51K Facebook followers, this site has an impressive reach for how low the cost is. There is little information outside the site but I can't image all those followers being bots. There would seem to be little downside to this site.
Cost: $25-125 depending on a variety of factors and what package you choose.
Evaluation: Huge reach at an appropriate, if a little high cost. 49K Facebook followers, 20K Twitter followers, and 29K Pinterest followers don't happen for nothing. They have a very highly rated Kindle App that is used by a large amount of people. They claim 600K people use the app though I have not been able to verify that. Some of what I've seen has given me some conflicting information, however, and no one is talking about it on forums, so proceed at your own risk, but I think this is a legit site with some good prospects.
Cost: Free
Evaluation: Middling site. They have a fairly good FB follower count at 53K, but it is much easier to get Facebook followers than it is to get followers on other media like Twitter and their Twitter numbers are unimpressive. The site itself is also not very nicely done. This, like a great number of these sites, would seem to have little downside for decent potential gain.
Free Books Hub:
Cost: $10-20
Evaluation: Lower end site. There are free services on this list that cost nothing and have a much larger reach.
Cost: Free
Evaluation: Risky lower end site. They have a surprising Twitter following of 20K but their FB following is in the hundreds, which is comparatively tiny. This site also has some rather strange elements that worry me. The two featured videos are Skyrim gameplay videos with no commentary, basically just someone recorded themselves playing an uninteresting part of a game and didn't even have anything to say about it. I have no idea why on earth that should be on this website and I am really baffled by this. Approach with caution.
Cost: Free
Evaluation: Not worth your time. Very small reach with a focus on nonfiction.
Cost: $17
Evaluation: High quality site with reasonable cost. Besides having an excellently designed site, Genre Pulse has worked with a huge amount of writers and they even have a notification that shows up to all people viewing the site whenever somebody makes a purchase. This notification was constantly going off while I was on the site, meaning a lot of current site usage. Kboard users seem to universally like the service, as far as I could see. This will probably be a good investment.
Cost: ?
Evaluation: Very shady. No one I saw on Kboard seems to know anything about them and the one long thread that I looked through had some sock puppet account problems, meaning someone from the site was covertly trying to effect the conversation. They won't even tell you the cost of an ad without you emailing them which seems even more sketchy. Avoid this site.
Cost: Free
Evaluation: Tiny not well put together site. Their site is not finished and their reach is miniscule. Avoid this site.
Cost: $7.50
Evaluation: Middling site. With 16K Facebook followers this site is likely doing something right and I have seen them posting books that I have seen on other sites so it seems legitimate. There are free options on this list which are more promising.
Cost: $0.05-0.14 per click based on book cost.
Evaluation: Legitimate site but difficult to gauge effectiveness. There is no social media but the site is friendly and interactive on Kboard and a few people put up positive reviews, but that is all I can find on this site.
Cost: $75 or $100
Evaluation: Possibly a good investment. The site gets 2K Daily unique visitors a day and 9K page views over all. Its numbers have gone down recently, so it might be going out of style, but people on Kboards seem to have a positive impression of it. Over time you might be reaching a lot of people if these numbers stay as they are or rise.
Cost: $10-30
Evaluation: Not worth the cost. They have a tiny reach and Cutestat.com prices their value at just under $9. I can’t imagine their value being so low while their prices are so high. This site would seem to not be being used by many people and so it is not worth the money or the time.
Cost: Free
Evaluation: Middling to upper end site. With 17K Twitter followers you could likely reach a large number of people for their Free cost. This seems to be a good service to use.
Cost: $100
Evaluation: Great service for a not so great price. The site has 270K Facebook followers, 10K Twitter followers, and 326K registered readers by their own estimate. This is a large reach for this site. They have a series of testimonials on their site and I found a user that I had seen active on Kboards before that saw and incredible boost from this site.
Cost: $20-60
Evaluation: Expensive but decent potential. 126K Facebook followers says something about this site. Their Twitter followers are few, however, so there is that. The site is obviously legitimate and well put together and the reach is very good.
Cost: Free, you just need a Reddit.
Evaluation: Decent prospects for a free Reddit page. 66K people use this page and so you have the potential to reach all of those. Be sure to follow all the rules for posting and this comes with no cost.
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