Wappy T.

I joined fiverr years ago at the recommendation of fellow authors. I hired several people to submit to newsletter promotion sites to save time, but 99% of these sites did not list my book which of course there's no way to know until the day of your free ebook promo. I also purchased some blog ads, but received no sales, making me think these author blog sites do not receive much traffic. The problem is that the site demands a review of a sellers services well before you know the real outcome which skews reviews positive. The only seller I'd really recommend for author promotion is BKnights. I've since deactivated my account. Not wasting any further money here.

I bought a publishdrive lifetime membership from appsumo mainly to reach the Chinese and European markets not already offered in Smashwords, Draft2Digital, and StreetLib. The platform took a little bit of getting used to at first as it is not as easy to use as Draft2Digital. I used Calibre to edit my epubs and uploaded them to publishdrive. Publishdrive would error check, send a notification email, and I'd go back and fix the errors in Calibre. Ultimately, I've used them to distribute over a dozen books. The only glitch that keeps happening is that sometimes the dropdown menu for choosing BISAC codes stops working, and I have to save a book as a draft and come back in a different browser.

This site would be a great idea if they didn't rope you into paying more. They advertise that in the length of a free trial of ten days you can get 10-15 reviews. You get 2000 snaps, their online currency, when you sign up, but that only allows you to put your book out there for one reader. You have to spend your time earning more snaps by liking or retweeting tweets, or reviewing other books—most of which are listed for sale and are not free downloads. You cannot just upload your book and wait for the reviews to come in. Who has the time to play these games? I'd rather wait for real, organic reviews. It's not worth the experience of a free trial, and it sure isn't worth 240 - 360 dollars a year just to be a member of the site.