Book Promotion Packages
Readers from around the world are eager to discover your books!
Schedule your book promotion today to have your book listed on our website, shared on social media, and included in our daily Best Book Deals Newsletter.
10,000+
Monthly Website Visitors
40,000+
Email Newsletter Subscribers
95,000+
Social Media Followers
Every author needs more readers, and we love helping you build your platform. All of our promotions are designed to get more eyeballs on your books with a focus on increasing your downloads and/or book sales.
By signing up for either a GOLD or Bronze promotion, your book will be included on our homepage, on the genre page for your book, and shared on social media. Our GOLD promotions include your book in our daily reader newsletter.
GOLD Package
Priced At
FREE
On Your Selected Promotion Date
$15.00
Any Genre!
On Your Promo Day
Included in Newsletter
- Featured on Homepage
- Featured on Genre Page
- Shared on Social Media
GOLD Package
Priced between
$0.01 and $4.99
On Your Selected Promotion Date
GENRE-SPECIFIC PRICING
On Your Promo Day
Included in Newsletter
- Featured on Homepage
- Featured on Genre Page
- Shared on Social Media
Bronze Package
Priced between
FREE and $4.99
On Your Selected Promotion Date
FREE
On Your Promo Day
- Featured on Homepage
- Featured on Genre Page
- Shared on Social Media
- Chance to Win GOLD Package
If you’ve previously promoted your book with Best Book Monkey, please see THESE INSTRUCTIONS for a quick and easy method of re-promoting your book.
Please Note: Best Book Monkey Package promotions are designed for books that are FREE, discounted to $4.99 or less, or have a regular price of $4.99 or less. If you have any questions, please CONTACT US.
Save By Pre-Purchasing GOLD Packages in Advance!
GOLD Paid Book Packages
For Books Priced Between $0.01 and $4.99
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Promoting your books is critical to building your author platform. We understand that many authors are new to promoting their books using a service like Best Book Monkey or our new to marketing their books.
One of the most challenging things for authors to do is to stop being an author and become a book marketing professional. You need to step back away from your book, away from all the emotions, energy, and love you’ve put into your work of art, and think and behave like a marketing expert.
Below are answers to some of the most common questions that authors ask us about marketing their books.
What Is Included in Best Book Monkey Promotions?
Our promotions are designed to get you in front of as many potential readers as possible. We use a combination of email marketing, social media marketing, and our website to maximize the exposure of your book. We aim to reach a wide audience and increase your book’s visibility. Our goal is to help you connect with readers who will appreciate your work and help you achieve your publishing goals.
1. Inclusion in Our Reader Newsletter
(Gold Packages Only)
This is the most effective way to boost your readership. We’ll pitch your book to readers who are actively looking for their next book or to building up their reading list.
The newsletter provides direct links to your book’s pages on:
Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Apple, Google, Smashwords, Goodreads, and Bookbub.
You also have the option of including a link to your author website and a book trailer. If your book is included in KP select, the KindleUnlimited logo will appear below your book cover.
2. Featured on the Homepage
On your selected promotion date, your book will be listed on the homepage of BestBookMonkey.com.
Best Book Monkey is well-known as a book promotion site that readers visit to find their next great read or to discover new and up-and-coming authors.
Additionally, we advertise to bring readers to our website, and many of them explore the website starting on the homepage before they commit to our newsletter.
Your book cover remains on the homepage toward the bottom of the page for a few days after your promotion date.
3. Featured on the Top Your Genre Page
On your selected promotion date, your book will be listed at the top of the page for your selected genre.
Visitors to the website often navigate to their favorite genre pages.
The genre page contains a dozen cards with the most recently promoted books.
Below those cards, your book cover may remain for a few weeks.
4. Your Book's Own Page on The Monkey's Site
Every book that’s promoted with Best Book Monkey has its own page on our website. You’ll receive this page after we process your order so that you can check your book’s details.
We’ve had books on our site still getting traffic months after the book’s promotion day! Imagine additional downloads and sales months later!
Your Books page will contain details about the pricing on your promotion date, along with links to each of the book sites where your book may be downloaded or purchased.
Additionally, you can include links from Goodreads and Bookbub, along with links to your website, book trailer, and social media profiles.
If your book trailer is a horizontal YouTube video. It will also be included on this page.
Your page on BestBookMonkey.com will be live for three years.
How Can I Run an Successful Book Promotion?
There are multiple factors in running an effective book promotion. Below are some of the items that you can directly influence.
Get The Basics Right Before You Promote
Before you even consider promoting your book, you need to make sure that your book listing on Amazon (and other book sites where it may be listed) is well-polished. Your book page on Amazon is where potential readers make the final decision of whether or not to grab your book. You want to think like a marketer and make your book appealing to readers.
Book Cover
“Never judge a book by its cover” doesn’t really apply that well to books! Your book cover is the first impression that most readers will have of your work. If you’ve written a marvelous book and slapped a poor book cover on it, people will be less interested in reading it.
Book Title
Book titles serve as a crucial first impression, often determining whether a potential reader decides to pick up the book or pass it by. They encapsulate the essence of the narrative or subject matter, guiding readers towards books that align with their interests or curiosity.
Book Description
Don’t think of your book’s description on Amazon as a synopsis or a summary. It’s a sales pitch. make readers want to dive into your book after reading your book’s description.
Pricing
There are dozens of pricing strategies for books. If you or a new author, and your book has less than a few hundred reviews, we highly recommend promoting your book for free. your number one job as a new author is to gain readers and get reviews (while writing your next book)
If you choose not to promote your book for free, we recommend running a $0.99 Kindle Countdown Deal if your book is enrolled in KP Select. If it is not enrolled in KP Select, then we recommend discounting it to $0.99.
Readers are very price-sensitive, especially if they don’t know the author or if a book does not have many reviews.
Series Page and Links
If your book is part of a series, then make sure you’ve connected the books in your series on the Amazon site. You can do this by logging in to KDP, going to your bookshelf, and clicking on the “Manage Series” button.
Be Proactive Not Reactionary
Long-term successful authors understand they need to plan their promotions in order to maximize their impact. One of the most frustrating things we often see is someone running a five-day Kindle Countdown Deal and deciding on day four they need to actively try to get eyeballs on their book.
Be smart about planning your book promotions in advance. If you’re going to run a Kindle Countdown Deal, Kindle Free Book Promotion, schedule them with time enough to set up your promotion with Best Book Monkey. Be sure to plan all of your social media posts, prep your personal author newsletter’s release date to coincide with your promotion, and feature the promoted book on the homepage of your website.
Promote, Promote, Promote, and Then Promote Some More
We truly understand. You didn’t write a book to become a marketer. You wrote a book to be an author. However, in today’s publishing environment, you have to be both. This applies to both self-published authors and even those who have an agent and a publishing house.
Don’t just leave it to just Best Book Monkey to promote your books. The Monkey needs to be one cog in a bigger machine. Be sure to share your books on social media, in your newsletter, and on your personal website. If you see any of Best Book Monkey’s social media posts, be sure to like and share them.
If you are an author group, ask the authors to like your posts about your book, ask them to share The Monkey’s posts, and potentially cross-post your book in their newsletter.
Don’t think of your Best Book Monkey promotion as a single event. You need to be promoting your books almost constantly. this may include other book promotion services and off-line events such as book launch parties and readings at your local library.
What Are the Editorial Requirements for a Book Promotion with Best Book Monkey?
Best Book Monkey truly wants to promote as many authors’ works as possible. However, we do have some minimum editorial requirements that your book must meet before we share it with our readers.
- Be priced at $4.99 or less on your PROMO DAY
- Be a minimum of 2,500 words (unless it's a children's book, graphic novel, or other visually-focused work)
- Books with FEWER than 15,000 words Require the following:
- At least three reviews on Amazon
- A 4.0 or higher average Amazon Rating
- Please Note: If your book has MORE than 15,000 words, there is NOT a minimum reviews or ratings requirement.
- Have a well-designed, attractive cover
- Be well written without significant spelling errors, grammatical problems, or structure issues
- Be properly formatted for promoted reading devices
- NOT be written to denigrate specific groups
- NOT be designed to promote hate or to further false narratives or debunked theories
- NOT be designed to encourage violence against individuals or specific groups of people
We reserve the right to reject any book. If you are unsure whether your book would be rejected, please CONTACT US, and we will review your book.
Other Frequently Asked Questions
We believe you should. Discounting your books while running promotions is simply basic buyer psychology. People love a deal, and if they believe they’re getting a deal on your book, they’re more likely to buy it or download it.
Additionally, buyers are more likely to purchase a book that is discounted, especially if they don’t know the author.
HOWEVER, Best Book Monkey DOES NOT require that you discount your books for our promotions. We will promote your book at its regular price.
The book page on our website can include any of the following links:
- Kindle
- Nook
- Kobo
- Apple Books
- Google Books
- Smashwords
- Goodreads
- Bookbub
- Your Author Website
- Your Amazon Author Page
- A Book Trailer
- Many Social Media Links
The newsletter includes links to the book sales sites, Goodreads, Bookbub, your author’s website, and book trailer.
Our social media posts are linked directly to your Amazon sales page.
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of factors influencing how effective a book promotion may be.
In addition to the above FAQ, How Can I Run a Successful Book Promotion? A few of the other factors include:
- Your overall author platform
- The number of reviews and your star ratings
- How well your promotion triggers Amazon’s algorithm
- How well your book appeals to Best Book Monkey’s readers
The most important thing you can do is not sit back and expect a single promotion to bring in thousands of readers.
The Best Book Monkey team truly wants to help writers who are trying to become long-term successful authors. One of the most important things you can do is get more readers.
The best way to get more readers is to put your book in the hands of as many people as possible. Whether you like it or not, becoming a successful author is a numbers game. Volume is critical.
Because of that, we’ve made a strategic decision to make free book promotions cheaper for authors than paid book promotions.
Additionally, we understand that running a book promotion for a free book does not equate well to a direct return on investment. We believe we are investing in the long-term success of our authors by helping them build a reader base.
And OK, we will admit it – it’s a bit of social engineering. We know authors need to get their books out there and into the hands of as many people as possible, and we hope that when they see that promoting their book for free is a more affordable alternative, that’s what they’ll do.
We are happy to promote pre-orders and new releases, along with books that have been available for some time.
Best Book Monkey does not have a set requirement for the number of reviews a book must have before we promote it.
However, we do reserve the right to reject a book if it has many low ratings and it is obvious there is a problem with the book.
We also understand that there are many trolls on the Internet who are giving authors one-star ratings and raking their books in reviews. We’ve seen this happen with high-quality authors and new authors who have been diligent about writing excellent work and working with professional editors. In these cases, we are more than happy to try to help the author find more readers and get more reviews.
The bulk of our readers come from paid advertising. We also have a presence on social media channels.
Well, most people outside of the digital marketing space may not understand “email hygiene.” It is something that we practice. We have automated tools in place that watch whether a newsletter recipient is opening the newsletter, clicking on any links, or visiting our website.
After a period of time, if they have not interacted with us, we send them a short series of emails, attempting to get them to reengage. If they do not, we remove them from our list.
This means our list is much smaller than it would be. Had we simply kept everyone who subscribed on the list, which is a bad idea.
ISPs watch newsletter companies, email delivery rates, open rates, and click rates too. When they see huge volumes of newsletters going out from a company with no one opening them or interacting with them, those companies will find their emails pushed into the spam folder and, in some cases, not delivered. We are actively working to keep our reader list engaged and deliver our newsletter into the readers’ inboxes.
We are more than happy to answer other questions, please visit our Contact Page.