Hundreds of websites boast they will promote your book for a fee, but many of them weren’t able to produce any sales at all from our tests.
In this post, we share the top 50 book promotion sites that have actually been proven to drive eBook sales.
Book Promotion Site Rankings
The list is organized so the sites at the top of the list have the most traffic while those at the bottom have the least amount of traffic based on the Alexa Rank. This is very important, because a book promotion site that charges $50 for their book promotion service but gets almost no traffic is almost certainly going to become an unprofitable investment for the author.
The number following the site link is the Alexa Ranking. The lower the Alexa Ranking, the more traffic the site gets, meaning the more readers your book can potentially be exposed to, depending on the advertising package.
List of Paid Book Promotion Sites
These book promotion sites can be used to promote any eBook.
| Service | Alexa Rank | Genres |
|---|---|---|
| BookBub | 8,665 | All |
| TCK Publishing | 19,961 | General Nonfiction, Self-Help / How-To, General Fiction, Romance, Thriller, Fantasy, Mystery, Science Fiction, Teen / Young Readers |
| ManyBooks | 27,458 | Action / Adventure, Bios / History, Children's, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Horror, Literary Fiction, Mystery / Thriller, Nonfiction, Romance, Science Fiction, YA |
| Book Gorilla | 111,800 | All |
| Book Goodies | 113,080 | All |
| Book Lemur | 120,040 | All |
| Get Free Ebooks | 133,929 | Science Fiction / Fantasy, Business, Short Stories, Programming, Computer and Internet, Personal Development, Horror, Family / Kids |
| Free Booksy | 135,029 | Mystery, Romance, Fantasy, Nonfiction, Kids and Teens, Literary Fiction, Religion, Travel |
| Indie Author News | 135,358 | All |
| Awesome Gang | 137,580 | All |
| Author Ad Network | 173,698 | Nonfiction, Fiction, SciFi, Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery, Romance, Erotica, Memoir, Children's Book, YA, Poetry, Christian Focused, Adult Coloring Book |
| Topless Cowboy | 174,536 | All |
| Pretty-Hot | 174,598 | All |
| Ereader News Today | 286,286 | All |
| BookRaid | 514,709 | Fiction, Nonfiction, Cookbooks, Children's and Middle Grade |
| Obooko | 546,390 | All |
| JustKindleBooks | 600,442 | All |
| The Kindle Book Review | 625,948 | Nonfiction, Thriller/Suspense/Horror, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Poetry, Humor, Children's Literature, |
| Digital Book Today | 852,314 | All |
| Ebook Stage | 941,088 | All |
| Steamy Romance Books | 964,787 | Romance, Erotica |
| The eReader Cafe | 974,183 | All |
| Genre Pulse | 1,244,820 | All |
| Daily Discounted eBooks | 1,375,446 | All |
| HotZippy | 1,711,217 | All |
| BookBasset | 1,770,905 | All except Erotica |
| OHFB | 2,306,876 | Children's, Cookbooks, Crafts, Erotica, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Horror, Mystery / Thriller, Nonfiction, Paranormal, Religion / Spirituality, Romance, SciFi, Women's Fiction, YA |
| Kindle Book Promo | 2,609,574 | All |
| Indie Book Lounge | 2,479,736 | All |
| Pillow Talk Books | 2,731,385 | Romance |
| Lovely Books | 2,779,547 | All |
| ContentMo | 3,037,394 | All |
| New Free Kindle Books | 3,620,204 | Biography / Memoir, Children's, Comics, Erotica, Humor, Literary Fiction, Mystery / Thriller, Religion, Romance, SciFi/ Fantasy, Short Stories, Teen & YA |
| Planet eBooks | 4,019,818 | All |
| Armadillo eBooks | 4,042,527 | All |
| Free Books Hub | 5,396,267 | All |
| Fire and Ice Book Tours | 6,087,727 | All |
| Kufads | 6,382,781 | All |
| Goodkindles | 7,986,494 | All |
List of Free Book Promotion Sites
Only use these sites to promote eBooks that will be available free to readers.
| Service | Alexa Rank | Genres |
|---|---|---|
| Frugal Freebies | 853,064 | All |
| Author Marketing Club | 1,037,684 | Business / Investing, Christian, Education, Health / Fitness, Literature, Mystery / Thriller, Romance, SciFi / Fantasy |
| Bookangel | 1,525,441 | All |
| Free Ebooks For Me | 1,764,288 | All |
| Ebooks Habit | 2,540,685 | All except Erotica |
| It's Write Now | 2,621,902 | All |
| Indie Book of the Day | 2,782,056 | Fiction, Children's, Nonfiction, Erotica |
| Books on the Knob | 3,193,866 | Fantasy / SciFi, Mystery / Suspense, Romance, Dark Fantasy, YA |
| Ebook Hunter | 6,919,979 | All |
| Ebook Deals Today | 10,156,120 | All |
Ebook Sales from Promotions
One of the best things about using an eBook promotion service like the ones listed in this article is that they make it really easy to find readers.
Rather than hoping, wishing and praying that someone will read your Tweet or Facebook post and buy your book, you can go directly to a massive website like BookBub and get your book in front of hundreds of thousands and even millions of readers who can’t wait to read books like yours.
That’s smart book marketing!
Keep in mind that all these major book promotion sites only promote eBooks, not print books or audiobooks. That means you have to have your book available in eBook format on Amazon Kindle, and possibly available for sale on other eBook retailer platforms like Nook, iBooks, Kobo and Google Play.
If you also have a print book or audiobook version of your book for sale, that’s great too. However, in my experience, these book promotion services almost never increase your sales for the print book or audiobook.
For example, when we used a BookBub promotion to sell over 2,000 eBook copies in a single day for one of our books, we didn’t sell a single paperback copy of the book that same day.
You can read more about how promotion sites have helped us sell books in our case study on how we sold 300,000 books without a big marketing budget.
Why Don’t We List More Sites?
You may have seen other lists with hundreds of book promotion sites, but in my experience most of them are worthless. Besides BookBub, TCK publishing, Bargain Booksy, and Buck Books, few promotion sites can send you more than a dozen sales, and the vast majority of book promotion sites did not produce a single sale when we tested them.
We don’t think a bigger list of book promotion sites is what you need since the vast majority of them will simply waste your money and your time. That’s why we’ve carefully curated this list to only include websites that we know will actually help you sell more books.
How Much Does a Book Promotion Site Cost?
Each book promotion site has their own unique pricing policy, and most authors simply decide on which promotion sites to use based on the price tag. Following this approach is likely going to cost you a lot of money and make you sell less books as well.
At TCK Publishing, we track every single book promotion we do, and we analyze the actual cost per sale of each promotion site. That’s because it doesn’t matter how much you pay for a book promotion site: what really matters is how much you pay relative to the results you get.
In other words, it’s better to pay $100 to sell 100 books (at a cost of $1 per sale in advertising cost) rather than paying $10 to sell 5 books (a cost of $2 per sale in advertising). Even though the price tag for the $10 book promotion site is much cheaper, it’s actually twice as expensive as the $100 promotion!
So make sure when you pay for a book promotion that you track the results you get, and don’t keep using book promotion sites that are too expensive in terms of how much it costs you to get a sale with that site.
If you end up paying more than $2 per sale for a 99 cent or free book with a book promotion site, you’re getting ripped off (because you’ll never earn a profit paying $2 to sell a 99 cent book on which you’ll only earn $0.70 in royalties).
You can learn more by checking out our podcast episode on how book promotion sites work with Ricci Wolman.
Why Do Readers Use These Sites?
Readers are always looking for new books, so many readers will sign up for newsletters and follow book promotion sites to get updates about newly released books or books on sale.
You can sign up for our book deals newsletter to check it out for yourself.
What You Should Do Next
Schedule a promotion with BookBub and Buck Books (they work for just about every genre and niche). Then check to see if there are specific book promotion sites that target readers in your specific niche or subgenre.
There are a few genre-specific book promotion sites out there (especially for Romance) that can help bring in 10-100 sales or so, and these can be a great place to promote your book if the pricing is fair.
If you have the budget to use more book promotion sites, then feel free to use any and all of the ones on this list as they’ve been proven to generate sales.
After that, check out more of our book marketing blog posts to learn more great ways to sell books!
Did you find this post helpful? Let us know in the comments below!
If you enjoyed this post, then you might also like:
- How to Setup Your BookBub Author Profile to Help You Sell More Books
- Buck Books: An Even Better Book Promotion Site for Indie Authors Than BookBub?
- 163: How Book Promotion Sites Work and Data-Driven Online Marketing Strategies with Ricci Wolman
- 70: Ebook Promotion Sites and Pricing Analysis with Ferol Vernon
Tom Corson-Knowles is the founder of TCK Publishing, and the bestselling author of 27 books including Secrets of the Six-Figure author. He is also the host of the Publishing Profits Podcast show where we interview successful authors and publishing industry experts to share their tips for creating a successful writing career.
Thank you! This is great.
Hi, Does anyone promote anthologies of short stories?
Thanks for posting an excellent article. Your site has provided the best information.
Thanks for all the above info, I have 2 books that desperately needs to be promoted.
These are great options to publish books. However, I will do more of the free options. This is because as a new writer, my budget to spend on book promotion is quite small.
I’m glad you found these options helpful, Magdalene! I think there are some great free ones to choose from. Best of luck with your book promotion :)
great list!
can add our website to your promotion site list.
website url: https://www.bookbelow.com
Promotion Price: Free to $35
Thanks
Thanks, we’ll check it out!
Thanks, Kaelyn
Have you reviewed our website?
We will be glad if you add our website to your list.
Wow! TCK, this is so amazing! I appreciate you doing the research and hard work to curate these lists. I love writing and being an indie author. I am a 2-time #1 bestselling author and have written 3 books but find it challenging to make a profit. However, I’m going to submit my ebooks to the sites and see if there’s a change. Thanks again!
Thanks Rhovonda, we hope the list is helpful! Best of luck with your book promotions :)
Thank you, Tom and TCK, for putting this post together. I often send authors to Reedsy or Kindlepreneur for lists of book promotion services. I will be sending authors here now as well. Yours is a solid list, plus lots of great advice. Nicely done. I’m going to add LitNuts to the mix as an option for indie authors and small presses. LitNuts is nowhere near as big as BookBub, TCK or some of the other Paid Promotion Sites, but our Alexa Rank is currently a very respectable 179,488 (we have 5,000 unique visitors/mo) — and I believe LitNuts is the ONLY newsletter that promotes only indie books. We do not promote titles from the Big 5 and their ~250 imprints. So if you’re an indie author or small press, try us out: get a Featured Book promotion for only $10 with discount code WW10. Our subscribers double opted-in to get yet another newsletter because they WANT info about indie books. Show them what you’ve got!
Thanks Mike, and thanks for sharing your site!
I am a first time writer with my first novel completed and yet to be published; and on reading this, I found it very helpful. Thank you!
You’re very welcome, Arthur! best of luck with your book :)
Great list! Can you add http://www.bookhunt.org?
The idea behind bookhunt is simple: Every book deserves fair chance to get noticed. It should not matter if your book was published by a famous publishing house or if you are an unknown writer with no budget to advertise your book
The social book platform allows authors to share their books and collect upvotes. It is a free service designed to connect writers and book lovers in a simple but powerful way.
In the end, our community decides which books will be featured. But every author has the same opportunity.
Thanks for sharing, Leonhard. We’ll check it out!
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for sharing this wealth of detail – it has become a “go to” reference for me time and time again when promoting my book series.
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glad you found the list helpful! :)
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Hi Andre, you might try checking for those books on one of these sites for free ebooks.
Hi Kaelyn,
Thanks very much for the effort in putting together this extremely helpful resource!
There’s another site which will advertise book promotions for free:
https://freebooktips.com
Hope this helps!
Thanks Mike! We’ll check it out :)
I have a book called ( This is the last call to be saved). My book is for the Lost and falling away from Jesus Christ in these last days.
Thanks for sharing about your book, Renard!
hello, really nice article, I submit my request is there a site / blog / facebook group that deals with reviewing game books in Spanish and English? unfortunately for low content get reviews is really hard, thanks, best regards
Hi Fra, thanks for your comment! I don’t know of any specifically for that, but you can contact the promotion sites and let them know you make gamebooks. You can also check out this post that has some helpful info for marketing books in spanish: https://www.thecreativepenn.com/2016/02/11/marketing-spanish-language/
Please add this website to your list:
Social Reads
https://www.socialreads.net
thanks for sharing! we’ll check them out
This is an awesome compilation of lists and advice. Thank you for this incredible resource!
You’re welcome, James! Hope you find it helpful:)
SImply thank you for this excellent resource.
You’re very welcome, Bev! Hope these sites are helpful.
OMG that’s some real treasure! Thank you so much! I got to spend some time exploring my options here…
I knew TCK was the right place to keep knocking their door!
Glad you found the list helpful, Hamza! :)
Thank you so much for this helpful information for book promotion.
TCK is the real deal
Thanks Chidinma, we’re glad you found the info helpful! :)
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sounds like a great book, thanks for sharing!
How Do I Go About Getting My Book Patient?
Hi Wendy, thanks for your comment! I’m not sure I understand your question- do you mean promoted?
Tom, this is an incredibly helpful article and resource list. It would take me days to compile a list like this. Your articles are some of the most useful and valuable I’ve read on any site. I’ve followed you for years, and you never disappoint. Thanks!
Hi Andrea, we’re so glad you found the list helpful! Thanks for being a loyal reader all these years, we’ll continue doing our best to bring you helpful content :)
Tom Cordon Knowles
Thank you for sharing this to all of us author’s scattered over the world.
You’re very welcome, we hope you find the resources helpful!
Thank you for this useful information.
I will try to promote my book via some of those free eBook sites listed.
Will post you information about any sales I get in due course! Fingers crossed!
Hi Annette, glad you found it helpful! Good luck and yes, please keep us posted! :)
You can get huge traffic from social networks because people wasting time on social networks so promote your book on correct social networks.
I used this guy to promote my books and got a massive results.
http://www.fiverr.com/fastsolver
Hi,
Great article and resource, thanks! I always think such a key part of finding the right book promotion site is finding one which is suited to the kind of book you are publishing. Like, list size isn’t everything. It’s so key to find a site which can get your book in front of the right readers, not just any readers.
I found a really cool list of book promotion sites recently at – https://kindlepreneur.com/list-sites-promote-free-amazon-books/. It splits the book promotion sites into paid and free and states any special requirements you need to get accepted, like a certain number of reviews, or a certain type of book.
I hope you guys all find it as useful as I have!
Thank you for the article!
I tried using Books Butterfly, and several authors are reporting that their ads did not run, and that we cannot get in contact with Books Butterfly through the form or email address listed. I thought it could be miscommunication at first, and now I must open a claim regardless of the reason.
This is what I sent the email address provided: I have the payment receipt for my Booksbutterfly advertisement, however, I do not have confirmation that the advertisement was posted. I also sent this email as a reply to my payment and filed out the form on your website in order to reach you. I am following up to see if my ad ran two days ago, as the requested day was on December 4th. Please send further instructions if there is a step that I did not complete on my end. I heard about Booksbutterfly from other authors and am excited to use the service. Thank you!
I also contacted through the form and on facebook. When authors say that it is a scam, they might be referring to the miscommunication happening. I am sorry some authors have different experiences and I’d like to think that most experiences with Books Butterfly are effective. Best of luck!
Thank you for this useful information
You can try also this one to promote ebooks for Free:
http://www.ebookstage.com/welcome/MTEwMA==/