I just paid my bill from E-reader News Today. Are you wondering how much it was? Of course you are! Answer: Under $10.
Their billing system is simple: they invoice you for 25% of what you earn on books sold by people clicking on the e-mail in which they featured your book. You math whizzes out there will have already grasped hold of the secret: you literally cannot lose with ereadernewstoday.com. If you sign up for a paid promotion with them and only sell a single book, you will still profit because they only charge you 25% of what you make. On the other hand, if you sell more books, your profit is larger.
They billed me for 110 books sold. Personally, I credit that promotion with 150-ish books sold. Probably some of the sales that happened while my promotion with them was going on were due to how my book rose in the amazon rankings, rather than people clicking the specific e-mail link.
Either way, I made over $50 on book sales for those couple days, and paid less than $10 for the promotion that made that happen.
My fellow indie authors, I am proud to recommend you toward e-reader news today!
Incidentally, in addition to having the best pricing structure so far, I also had more paid sales while I was promoting with them than with any other marketing avenue I’ve tried so far, including the free promotion. So not only are they cheap, they’re also effective.
It should be pointed out here that the reigning conventional wisdom about indie authors is that bookbub.com is the best e-mail marketing promotion you can buy. So far, I have not succeeded in persuading bookbub to list Death of Secrets. I’ll report on them when I do!