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Bargain Booksy is managed by Written Word Media who also own other book promotion sites, including Freebooksy, Red Feather Romance, and New In Books.

Set up your Author Account on Bargain Booksy

Click on this link to create your Author Account.

Add your Books to your Dashboard

If you’re not quite ready to schedule your promotions, you can go ahead and add your books so that they’re available to select from when it comes time to book your slot.

Written Word Media recommend promoting your books in a 90 day cycle, so if you haven’t promoted a book within 90 days, your book listing will show a “This Book Need Promotion” reminder.

Once you’ve saved your book listing, click on the Edit Book button to add links to Apple, Kobo, Nook, and Google Play, or provide additional book information (e.g. publisher, series information, page count, and genre.)

Note: your book is locked when it’s scheduled for a promotion, so make sure you update your book’s details before you schedule it.

Schedule a Promotion

When you’re ready to schedule your promotion, you can walk through the step-by-step prompts.

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Step 1: Pick a Site

When you want to offer your nonfiction book at a price between .99c and $4.99, you should choose Bargain Booksy as your promotion platform.

If you’re offering your book for free, then select Freebooksy.

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Step 2: Pick Your Promotion

Nonfiction authors have the following nonfiction categories to choose from:

1. Travel with a list size of 71k: Promotion price $20
2. General Nonfiction with a list size of 86k: Promotion price $25
3. Self Help and How-to with a list size of 75k: Promotion price $30
4. Cookbooks and Nutrition with a list size of 82k: Promotion price $25
5. Religion / Spirituality with a list size of 68.5k: Promotion price $25

(All of these prices and list sizes were captured November 2020)

Choose the most relevant niche by clicking on the Purchase button, and the team at Written Word Media will check your selection when they review your request for a promotion.

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Step 2: Pick a Date

Depending on your niche and the time of year, you may have to advance book up to 3 or 4 weeks in advance in order to find an available date.

Every book goes through an editorial review process. If your book does not meet their editorial guidelines, they will email you within 72 hours and issue a full refund on your payment.

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Step 4: Pick a Date

If you’re already set up your book, then the book information you filled in previously will get auto-populated into this screen.

Double check to see if you want to make any revisions, and complete the Promotional Book Price. Check out this article to see which list price you should choose, based on your author goals, and to see what royalty percentage you can earn.

Once your promotion has been approved, you have a lot of task to complete to get ready for your event, so make sure you leave yourself enough time to manage your price reductions on your book retailer sites, and create your promotional content (email blast, social media, etc.)

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Step 5: Payment

On this last step in the process you have the opportunity of reviewing your promotion details. You have the option of editing your promotion, or adding it to the cart to pay. PayPal, credit or debit cards are accepted. Complete your purchase in order to submit your book promotion request.

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Tracking your Promotions

In your Promotions Tab your promo will show as pending, until it has been approved, at which point you’ll see a green Approved banner in your book listing.

In your main dashboard you’ll also see your upcoming promotions in date order.

An approved promotion is not guaranteed. It depends on the competition for your selected date and the quality of your book. If for any reason Written Word Media doesn’t approve your book, you can contact them to find out why, at info@freebooksy.com. 

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Once your promotion has been approved, it’s time to manage your price reductions and prepare your promotional activity to support your event.

Stay tuned as I work my way through the other articles in this series, and let you know the results of my Bargain Booksy event.

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I’m publishing a series of articles to provide a step-by-step approach to promote your nonfiction book on Bargain Booksy. Look out for this series on social media, or better still, sign up to my email list and I’ll let you know when it’s published (and also when my books are part of a Bargain Booksy promotion so that you can buy them at a discounted price).

Here’s the article series:

1. How to Optimize your Book on Amazon
2. How to Schedule your Promotion on Bargain Booksy
3. How to Submit your Amazon Price Reductions
4. How to Plan your Book Promo Publicity
5. How to Evaluate your Promotion’s Success

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