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Do price promotions really
help sell new releases?
3. Bargain readers try new authors
have purchased a book
from an author unknown to
them because of an ebook
price promotion
95%
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4. “I prefer to pay $1 or less for
an unknown author. I would
pay much more for an author
I’ve read and enjoy.”
- BookBub subscriber
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5. Bargain readers also buy
full-priced ebooks
23%Exclusively purchase
discounted books
77%Purchase full-price
and discount books
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6. BookBub | The leading service in ebook price promotions!
89%
of BookBub partners who
used a price promotion to
market a new release sold
more of their new book
after the promotion
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How can you use a discount to
drive sales of your new release?
8. To launch a new release:
Discount a backlist title
Choose the first in a series or most popular
standalone at the lowest price possible
Use your back matter to drive new release sales
Try discounting after the new book launches
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9. of BookBub readers have purchased other books by an
author they discovered through a price promotion63%
Discount a backlist title1
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10. Or discount the first in the series1
First in series Other
higher increase in sales of other
books in the series when the first
book is discounted vs. any other
book in the series
5x
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11. more downloads of
free books than
$0.99 books
10x
$0.99 Free
Make the book free if you can2
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12. Response rates are
over 75% higher at
$0.99 than $2.99
Or choose the lowest price possible2
$0.99 $1.99 $2.99
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13. Link to the new book in the back
matter
increase in sales of other
books in the series if links
are included in back matter
3
3x
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14. Discount when the new book is live4
22xincrease in sales of an
author’s other books on the
day of their BookBub
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