40 Book Promoting Sites – Part 4
40 Book Promoting Sites – Part 4
When publishing a book, the key to success is promotion and distribution. Both are meant to give books as much exposure as possible. In order to gain time, it is best to know where to find opportunities to gain exposure easily. This is why we are now creating a list of websites offering book promotion opportunities.
Fourth Tuesday devoted to 5 book promoting sites with a short profile of each site.
In addition to the book promoting sites on the list, advertisement space is available on this blog.
Alexa Ranking gives an idea of the site competitiveness on the Internet, the lower the ranking number, the better the site, no rank means the website’s popularity is so low that it does not register.
Estimated monthly traffic is based on an average of various sites monitoring traffic on the web and is only given as an indication.
GoodRead
Alexa ranking: less than 1k
Estimated monthly traffic: over 3M
Extremely popular site where you can post your books, build a friend networks of writers and readers, organize events and much more
Gurulib
Alexa ranking: less than 700 k
Estimated monthly traffic: around 5k
Enables you to create your own library of books and games and to make it non-private to share with others.
Internet Book Data Base
Alexa ranking: less than 500k
Estimated monthly traffic: Around 4k
Enables you to create your own library of books and games and to make it non-private to share with others. Offers paid options for featured author or featured book. Caters mainly for Asia.
Jacket Flap
Alexa ranking: less than 200k
Estimated monthly traffic: 60k
For children books only. Directory of children books, publishers and professionals related to children book publishing. You can create your own profile to add your book and blog for free and use their advertisement offers to gain visibility for a fee.
Library Thing
Alexa ranking: Less than 10k
Estimated monthly traffic: 500k