Book Marketing

Free and Paid Book Promotion Services To Check Out in 2024

free and paid book promotion services

Publishing your book(s) is not the final step of the process. You need to promote it to increase its discoverability and gain more readers.

You can do it through a well-defined book marketing timeline, which may include seeking out a few websites that offer free or paid book promotions.

Here's a list for your to get started.

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Free Book Promotion Services

This is a list of book promotion services where you can submit your book for free. Most of them also have paid promotion options if you want to get your book featured in more places.

Check their requirements when submitting your title. This is because most of them require your book to be on sale, sometimes heavily discounted or for free.

 

Armadillo eBooks

Armadillo eBooks is a free book promotion service that will place your promo book in front of its network and on promotional sites.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Includes: Free listing

Optional: Paid promotion from $5

Awesome Gang

You can submit your book for free on Awesome Gang and help readers find your book through a reliable source. The awesome part is you can pay only $10 and have your book featured in their special books listing (homepage, social media boosted posts).

Accepts: free and discounted books

Includes: Free listing

Optional: Paid promotion from $10

Best Book Monkey

This is another website for free promotion. Best Book Monkey lists all accepted books on its website and shares them on social media. The paid promotion includes featuring in their daily newsletter and on their homepage.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Includes: Free listing 

Optional: Paid promotion from $19.50

Book Bongo

Enlisting your book on this book promotion service website is free. You can also opt for Book Bongo paid option and get one of the website promotions: be featured as a banner ad on the site. Besides this, you’ll be promoted to various Facebook groups. 

Accepts: free and discounted books

Includes: Free listing 

Optional: Paid promotion from $9.99

Discount Book Man

The book promotion service Discount Book Man accepts submissions for free. The website also has a paid promotion, which ensures your book is displayed on their front page listing for 5 days, in their email, and social media accounts.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Includes: Free listing 

Optional: Paid promotion for $15

eBook Stage

Have your book promotion sent straight into people's inboxes. eBook Stage notifies its subscribers about free and discounted eBooks and audiobooks.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Includes: Free listing 

Optional: Paid promotion from $10

Free Book Tips

As its name says, on Free Book Tips, you can submit your book for free. You can also write a guest post to get a link. Make sure you adhere to their requests, and your listing request will be responded to within 24 hours.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Includes: Free listing

It's Write Now

This one's still a book promotion website service, but their free option doesn't guarantee your book being featured on their front page. They need to revise and select it. The paid package on It's Write Now includes featuring on their front page, in their newsletter, and on social media accounts.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Includes: Free listing 

Optional: Paid promotion from $10

Lovely Book Promotions

With this book promotion service, you can have a free promotion where they share your book’s reviews, articles, press releases, interviews, or guest posts. Lovely Book Promotions also has paid promotion options that include promotion on social media, in their email, and others.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Includes: Free listing 

Optional: Paid promotion from $4

Pretty Hot Books

On Pretty Hot Books, you can submit your Kindle book for free. They also have a paid promotion option, so you can have your title featured for 7 days on their front page.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Includes: Free listing 

Optional: Paid promotion from $25

Reading Deals

A free submission on this book promotion service website will (possibly) place your book in front of over 31,000 readers for a limited time. Reading Deals’ paid book promotion option guarantees the listing and expands the exposure time.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Includes: Free listing 

Optional: Paid promotion from $29

Snicks List

Snicks List is a book promotion service that has been helping authors and their book promos since 2009. They’ll feature your title on their social media channels and in their newsletters.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Includes: Free listing 

Paid Book Promotion Services

With this book promotion services website, you won’t get a free listing. Every submission costs, but it will nonetheless promote your book in front of many readers. Make sure to check their requirements too.

 

BirdsHeaven

Readers are always on the lookout for the best promotions. When it's about spicy romantic stories, probably even more so. BirdsHeaven helps readers get the best book promo in the genre.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion from €14.96

 

Book Adrenaline

Submit your discounted book to Book Andrenaline and get it featured on their website, in their daily mail, and posted to all their social media accounts on the day you’re selected. This book promotion website is perfect for Mystery and Thriller ebooks, reaching over 41,000 readers of these genres.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion from $15

Book Barbarian

With Book Barbarian, your book promotion reaches over 70,000 readers of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion from $35

Book Cave

Book Cave is a book promotion service that works in two ways: it sends and promotes the author's promo books to several retailers and helps them gain more subscribers.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion from $15

Book Dealio

Book Dealio helps you bring your book promo in front of over 217,000 subscribers. Together with the book promo, you can add a link to your website or email newsletter sign-up form.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion from $78

Book Gorilla

Book Gorilla is a Kindle-friendly book promotion service for those seeking heavily discounted or free books.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion from $40

BookDoggy

With BookDoggy, your free or discounted eBook is promoted one time in their daily newsletter. Besides this, you'll have your book promotion featured on their website, social media channels, and Facebook ads. They can also include links to the stores you've distributed your books in, such as Amazon, Kobo, Apple, Barnes and Noble, Google, Smashwords, Bookfunnel, Story Origin, and Prolific Works.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion from $21

Book Raid

With Book Raid, you get access to their email list (more than 40,000 readers), and you will pay only for the clicks you get, with a maximum of $60 per promotion.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion: pay-per-click with a maximum of $60 per promotion

BookBub

BookBub is probably the best book promotion service website (and the most popular), with millions of readers ready to discover the next book promotion. The cost of their paid plans is based on the category and discount price of the featured book.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion from $105

Book Runes

Submit your book to yet another great book promotion service, Book Runes, which will highlight your book promo for others to find it faster.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion from $25

Crave Books

They say they feature unbeatable deals on their page. Do you have one? Feature it on CraveBooks.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion from $24

Dango Books

Dango Books is a book promotion service website that sends promotion emails with free and discounted books. You'll also be advertised on their website and social media channels and get a graphic designer for your book promo.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion from $15

Early Bird Books

Early Bird Books is the leading email newsletter from Open Road. Open Road is the parent website for a few book promotion services: The Lineup for true crime, psychological suspense, and horror; The Portalist for science fiction and fantasy; Murder & Mayhem for crime fiction and thrillers; A Love So True for romance and relationships; and The Archive for history and non-fiction.

Tapping into their promotion, you can reach up to 1.5 million readers interested in multiple genres.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion $300

ereader News Today

ENT places your book on the promotion list for thousands of readers to see. For this, you need to make sure your book is free or on sale and in top-quality shape.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion from $40

ExciteSteam

Writer of hot romance? ExciteSteam is an ebook promotion service that can place your book promotion in front of readers seeking an exciting romance story. They will promote your book through their newsletter, website, and Facebook page.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion from $15

Free and Discounted Books

If you have a book promo under $3, here’s one of the book promotion service websites you could advertise it on. Free and Discounted Books, as its name suggests, accepts bargain, free and permafree books.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion from $12

Hello Books

Hello Books email their readers every week to tell them about promo books. Yours included. Besides email, your book will appear in their Facebook advertising campaigns. 

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion for $30

Hot Zippy

As Hot Zippy says, they specialize in affordable ads and promoting eBooks written by independent authors. It's true: you can get one of the best advertising for your book promo across four websites, audiences, and email newsletters.

Accepts: discounted books

Paid promotion from $23

My Romance Reads

My Romance Reads is another book promotion service website that focuses on romantic stories and their readers. They feature your book on their website, Facebook page, apps, newsletter, and reader reviews.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion from $50

OHFB

OHFB is for permafree, free for a limited time, or huge discounted books from Amazon. This book promotion service website will notify readers about your Kindle book promotions.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion from $75

Readers in the Know

If you’re planning to or you already have book promotions to advertise, Readers in the Know helps their subscribers find out what’s hot right now in terms of books.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion annual membership fee of £20

Red Roses Romance

Red Roses Romance sends its subscribers a daily email packed with book promotions on Romance and Erotic ebooks.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion from $25

Robin Reads

Robin Readss subscribers enjoy different book genres, from mystery and thriller to steamy romance. And they’re on the lookout for the next best book promo.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion from $40

The Fussy Librarian

They offer two newsletters: one for bargain ebooks (109,000) and one for free ebooks (600,000). You'll find the exact number of subscribers The Fussy Librarian has for each genre they cover in their pricing list.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion from $10

The History Quill

The History Quill has a book promotion service that advertises your historical fiction directly to those who signed up for The Niche Reader, a website for readers who love this genre.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion from €4.50

Thrillerfix

Thrillerfix is a reader community created by and for people who love thrillers. You can advertise your promo book here, but if you want, they can generate buzz even when your book is set for pre-orders.

Accepts: free and discounted books

Paid promotion from $49

Get on Book Promotion Service Websites with PublishDrive

To have your book promotion featured on book promotion service websites, you first need to have your book published. Obviously. 

What if you could publish and promote your book from the same place, to top book promotion services?

With PublishDrive, you can easily self-publish, distribute and market your book under one roof.

We partner with Written Word Media, where authors and publishers can run their book promo. 

Written Word Media has multiple book promo sites with a significant amount of potential customers you can reach.

The best part is that you can have your book featured in their newsletter for free through PublishDrive.

Here's what WWM offers:

 

New In Books

New In Books has a Book Launch Promo Stack that helps your newly launched book (which must have been released in the past six months) to get known by over 80k newsletter subscribers.

It also coordinates book promo stacking across all Written Word Media brands: to your target audience, promo placements, Facebook ads, featuring in their weekly roundup of new releases, placement in the Book Recommendation List, an author interview on newinbooks.com with links to purchase your new book, and mentions on all their social media channels.

Includes free newsletter featuring through PublishDrive

Optional: Paid promotion book services

 

Freebooksy

Freebooksy has over 519,000 registered readers. This deal is for you if you have titles that are permanently free or free for a limited time.

Includes free newsletter featuring through PublishDrive

Optional: Paid promotion book services

Bargain Booksy

Bargain Booksy has over 277,000 registered readers. If you’re planning a book promo, or if your book is already priced below $4.99, you can try this book promotion service to drive more sales.

Includes free newsletter featuring through PublishDrive

Optional: Paid promotion book services

Red Feather Romance

Writer of basically any kind of romance seeking more readers? Red Feather Romance is the place to advertise your book promotions.

Includes free newsletter featuring through PublishDrive

Optional: Paid promotion book services

How to get featured by Written Word Media with PublishDrive

You can get featuring opportunities with any book promotion services from Written Word Media, depending on your book promo (free or discounted).

Here’s how:

1. From your dashboard, go to Promotions > Featuring.

publishdrive featuring option

2. Select the place you want your book to be featured. Before that, make sure your book is distributed to the stores mentioned on each book service website.

select the featuring campaign with publishdrive

3. Select your book and add a description.

select the book you want to get featured

4. Wait for the submission approval. We’ll send you an email with the details.

Conclusion

A website focused on book promotion services can significantly help you with your book sales. Given the number of subscribers to each newsletter I mentioned, more people can find out about your book each time you run a book promo.

If you wish to make the entire process easier, you can publish, distribute and promote your book with PublishDrive. Besides the featuring opportunities, you can do so much more to market your book. 

Give it a try.

Here's an overview on how to market your book using PublishDrives's promotional tools:

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