Indie Authors Monthly Magazine For Authors and Readers discussion

Hi all,

Has anyone tried Book Funnel? If so, have you found it helpful/cost-effective? Any views appreciated!

Many thanks!

Josie

Thanks, Kevin.

Has anyone tried it as an author?

I've been wondering how this works as well. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I have read books off of book funnel, but I prefer instafreebie. If anyone finds a good book on either I'm open to suggestions. my favorite I've found so far were and both from instafreebie

Instafreebie is the best for group promotions which you can search for in their UI. I love their UI, too. You can start with a free plan if you don't care about getting email addresses to check it out. Then you have a 30 day free trial if you bump to the next plan. If you integrate IF with Mailerlite, you get a discount (assuming you are paying monthlies for both services). $20/mo before any discount.

Book Cave is another though it has fewer promotions (you do get emails about available ones to join.) I hate the UI interface and you have to rate your book for sex, violence, etc. Bonus is you can collect emails and integrate with MC/ML for free. No good reason for not using this service.

Book Funnel is a great way to send out ARCs because they do a watermark thingy and I know tons of authors who give out their ARCs using BF rather than another service. However, their minimum is $20/yr which isn't much, and that's not collecting emails. To collect emails you need to pay $100/yr. To integrate with a mail service it says 'additional fees' but doesn't say what they are (looking at the pricing page.) I haven't tried this one yet because it has no free to try out option, but after I publish book 2, I'll probably use this when I see a group promo organized around it. Note: I don't think BF has any group promo stuff on their site. They are a delivery platform only I believe.

Amanda wrote: "I have read books off of book funnel, but I prefer instafreebie. If anyone finds a good book on either I'm open to suggestions. my favorite I've found so far were [bookcover:Trials of Magic|3230424..."
Oh, hey, I found that Trials of Magic book from IF as well! Looks good. (My own book was with that one in a promo, hah!) Yes, I like browsing the books I'm with in promos. Got tons of free stuff to read. Too bad I'm busy writing. :P

@ C it was great! Omg I can't stop thinking about it. I'm a blogger and I am signed up on a bunch of websites and blog tour sites for ARCs. I do Netgalley too. I love instafreebie and check it weekly. Instafreebie got me connected with a whole bunch of author newsletters which I found really cool because now I get notifications about their new books and stuff. Blog tours seem to be pretty cool too. YA Bound book tours, xpresso book tours and rockstar book tours are probably the best ones for my interests.

Sadly, I found Netgalley too late. I only got to review one book before I turned myself into an author! I'm glad you enjoy author newsletters. I always worry that I'm more pesty than useful whenever I send those out.

@C. I check my email everyday to see if there's anything I want to read. Those mailing lists help me shape my tbr. If a book gets a lot of press I tend to give it a second glance when I would normally pass by it. Netgalley is cool, but a lot of indie books you have to discover through other avenues. Sometimes I come across the best books and they only have like 5 ratings, which I find really crazy. Goodreads has really helped me find so many avenues to discover great books.

Also, thanks for the introduction to Book Cave. Didn't know about it til now and I just scored some good books, one of which is a novella to a series I love

You're welcome Amanda. Anything to help a fellow reading lover out. :) I find Amazon's algorithms aren't bad either--I get several emails about books I might like that it was right about. Same with Goodreads.