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Booksbutterfly.com has a rating of 3.5 stars from 2 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Booksbutterfly.com ranks 961st among Marketing sites.
Book publishing and the marketing needed to make that precious (especially to the author) book see any success, is HARD. We love our authors and using Books Butterfly is one of the best tools in our arsenal of group and social promotions. Some of our authors (over 3 years) have not hit the mark. Every single time BooksButterfly, and Fiona, have re-run it. The majority of the authors see great success! We appreciate the team, fast email replies, and consistent promotions.
Booksbutterfly is one of the many paid for promotion sites for independent authors. I attempted to do two different promotions with them. The first one was for a guaranteed 100 books sold. After three attempts they sold only 33 books. In the second time, I tried for their guaranteed 50 sales. They ran the promotion for one week and sold six books. They try to do the job, but are wholey incapable. Therefore, their claims are untrue. They can't guarentee you the sales they are selling you.
Book publishing and the marketing needed to make that precious (especially to the author) book see any success, is HARD. We love our authors and using Books Butterfly is one of the best tools in our arsenal of group and social promotions. Some of our authors (over 3 years) have not hit the mark. Every single time BooksButterfly, and Fiona, have re-run it. The majority of the authors see great success! We appreciate the team, fast email replies, and consistent promotions.
Tip for consumers:
when you purchase a promotion use it for the 5 free KUP days, then if it did make the guarantee ask for them to use your credit for the .99 days
Booksbutterfly is one of the many paid for promotion sites for independent authors.
I attempted to do two different promotions with them. The first one was for a guaranteed 100 books sold. After three attempts they sold only 33 books.
In the second time, I tried for their guaranteed 50 sales. They ran the promotion for one week and sold six books. They try to do the job, but are wholey incapable. Therefore, their claims are untrue. They can't guarentee you the sales they are selling you.
Tip for consumers:
Don't use bookbutterfly.com to promote your books.
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They guaranteed 50 sales of books and sold only 6.
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Unfortunately, Dr. Nadel's first book did not do well. We ran it 4 times (the first time the author forgot to discount the book). For the $170 package, we did 4 runs costing us $120 each time to run for a total of $480.
We accommodated lots of challenges including - book not discounted for the first run, book ASIN changed later on without telling us (while still keeping the old book published), etc.
His book, unfortunately, was in the 8% of books that miss. 92% of books we run hit the target for $0.99 discounted deals
The guarantee is not - every single book will hit the target. The guarantee is - 92% of books hit the target. 8% of books miss and the guarantee says that we will rerun those 8% to get the remaining sales
Perhaps we need to figure out some way that authors realize Guarantee is - we will rerun the 8% of books that miss. Guarantee does not mean every single book will hit the target (which is impossible as readers have different tastes)
So Dr. Nadel has store credit to rerun the first book for the remaining 67 sales, which we will honor
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For the second book, it is unfortunate that even after knowing our readers are not a good fit for his book, the author returned 6 months later and bought another package
The book was focused on a very specific region (Israel) and unfortunately most of our readers are in the US. So it did not interest them. It was a mistake to take that book. We are doing a full refund for that package (already done)
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For future customers - please keep in mind that while we try our best to not take books that will miss, we cannot predict how books will do. 8% of the time we are wrong and a book we accept misses the guaranteed figure.
The guarantee means - If your book misses, we rerun it for no charge to get the remaining sales
Over 50% of authors whose first book misses, become repeat customers. So the guarantee works for most authors - definitely for the 92% whose books hit the target the first time. Also for most of the authors whose books miss
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Some authors get very frustrated that their book misses. We do understand this. Please think of it as promoting your book in a book store, to that book store's readers. It is about 'being a good fit' for those readers. It does not mean that your book is bad, and it does not mean the book store is bad, if your book misses. It is just that the book store's readers did not connect with the book
We have run a lot of book promotion packages (over 40,000 book promotion packages) for over 7,000 authors. We are still figuring out how to avoid taking the 8% of authors whose books end up not being a good match. To help ease the pain of their book not being a good fit for our readers (that's it, nothing else) we offer a guarantee that if their book misses, we will rerun. We rerun the book for the remaining sales (sometimes multiple reruns are required)