Freebooksy And Selling Loads Of Ebooks...Or Ramping Up Kindle Unlimited Page Reads

The main ebook flash sales powerhouse is BookBub. Freebooksy is a discount ebook selling website that is in the flash sales model area. Going through this ebook platform you can sell thousands of ebooks, particularly those publishing in popular genres like romance, thriller, and fantasy.

How does Freebooksy work?

Like with most flash sales websites, it is to do with the list.

Freebooksy promotes ebooks that are free for a limited time. Authors pay to feature their book in Freebooksy’s large mailing list and on its website. Pricing varies based on book genre, but generally falls in the $40–$200 range for a one-day feature.

What authors get:

• Placement in a genre-specific newsletter (with tens of thousands of subscribers).
• A featured spot on the Freebooksy website.
• Social sharing across Freebooksy’s own channels.

The premise is simple: thousands of readers looking for free ebooks get notified about your book, download it, and (hopefully) either buy later books in your series, leave reviews, or become long-term fans.

Sounds great, who has used it?

We could only fin fiction authors who have used the service. And obviously tailoring your ebook to the audience is key.

• Annie Jocoby. Broken (Romance)

Annie expected about 1,000 free downloads, but ended up with 7,200 in a single day. After the promotion ended, she also made around 100 paid sales of the same book at $2.99. The side positive factors were gains in visibility, social engagement, and long-term reader interest.

• Vania Margene Rheault. All of Nothing

Vania managed 5,351 free downloads on the promo day, plus 867 more the following day, totalling 6,218 downloads. Vania experienced a noticeable rise in Kindle Unlimited page reads immediately afterwards.

Taking a step back you can clearly see the upsides of Freebooksy. There is a massive download potential. To achieve the same with paid ads the platform is also cheaper.

There are 2 really important benefits:

1. It can boost your Kindle Unlimited page reads which in turn can give you indirect income rather than selling and actual book
2. If you have a series then it is perfect. Make the first book free in the series and then authors have noticed a jump in sales of the rest of the series.

Sign me up...but are there any downsides?

Like with all flash sales and sales in general...you may or may not see the same results.

Free is a little bit more difficult because free seekers like free stuff and only a small percentage usually buy. This is why series ebooks are quite helpful here. We also have numbers. If there are 20,000 people signed up for romance books then the likeliness of 100% of these opening each and every ebook that is sent to them is not likely. Then how many of these will buy the book?

Our first example, Annie- out of 7000+ free downloads only 100 bought.

Now this can also be down to other factors like the looks of the ebook, the content and the need to buy- why will buy?

Then we have the genre. And this matters. Romance, thrillers, and fantasy perform best; niche nonfiction may see fewer downloads.

It is also a one day impact burst of attention. 

But there is a better way to use Freebooksy

If we know the limitations we can figure out how to dampen these down. If you are going to get page reads then make sure you get those reads. make sure that your Amazon book is perfect in styling. Make sure the reviews are just right. If anyone posts about the ebook then thank them or answer questions that they pose. In a way you get reviews and stars from Freebooksy- indirectly affecting your Amazon ranking

• Series. We have just talked about this, but it is important. Get a series or related books and link to them in each book if not "also bought by" in Amazon. You can link to your own books but no affiliate links.
• Stack promotions. Pair Freebooksy with other promo sites like BookBub for stronger impact.
• That audience is gold. They have chosen to look at your free ebook. So how do you capture them? With a free signup to your newsletter. With a bonus package for signing up to your email or subscribing to your social network. You need some way to capture that audience. These are going to be your audience for future ebooks and you can target them for free. You can even talk to them and see what they like and how they like your ebooks.
• You need to figure out how the Freebooksy promotion is going to help you. Is it by Kindle page reads, downloads of your ebook, signup to a newsletter? By figuring out what you want to track will give you an idea if you want to use Freebooksy again and how did that audience interact with you over time.

For instance Annie had 100 sales of a $2.99 ebook. If everything is normal (not taking into consideration hosting, Amazons percentage. Annie had a $299 windfall in one day. However if those buyers also bought another $100 worth of ebooks, we now have a $399 day. If some signed up to a newsletter and were engaged in that process and bought $100 of ebooks each time...well that one promotion was really hepful- especially if you think a promotion could be from $40-200.

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