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| The Top Places To Submit Your Free Kindle Select Books By Jim Kukral Posted: 30 Aug 2012 11:59 AM PDT  Like you, I learn so much from our guest authors, and today's post is no exception. To learn more about Jim, make sure you check out his book marketing agency, Digital Book Launch. Oh, make sure you check out the video in the resouce box at the end of the post. It's a interesting idea for authors! The Top Places To Submit Your Free Kindle Select Books Jim Kukral Is Your Book Going Free On Amazon? Save Time & Submit It To These Top Free Sites. The business of providing free Kindle books is a BIG one nowadays. As millions and millions of eReader devices are being sold every month, those new readers are actively looking for new things to read. Every day a new "free Kindle books" site is being created, and pretty soon there will be hundreds, if not more of them. The following are websites that have book submission opportunities. Most of them have a form where you can list your book for free and they will send it out to their members via email, Twitter or Facebook, or all of them! A lot of these sites have HUGE readerships and one single mention by some of them can send your book soaring up the best-selling lists very quickly. Some of these sites have paid sponsorship opportunities as well. Important: When you visit each site, look for the submission guidelines. Don't just fire off an email or fill out any form you see. There is usually a proper procedure that you MUST follow or you'll just get ignored. Some of these sites are getting hundreds, if not thousands, of submissions for promotion every single day. If you were getting 1,000 contacts a day, would you even bother to read the ones who didn't follow the rules? No, you wouldn't, and either will they. Tip: It's very useful to submit your book to places like these when you do your Amazon KDP Select free promo days. A lot of these sites send updates to the readers with free books and you probably have a better chance of being mentioned if you are free when you submit. For example, for my latest book Business Around A Lifestyle I focused on spending time contacting the following sites and submitting my free book promotion day to them as a test. The result? Without any other promotion on my part except for a few of my own tweets, I ended up getting my book downloaded for free over 4,000 times. Not too shabby. Results may vary with your book. Note: You can access each site on your own one-by-one, or just use the Author Marketing Club's Free Kindle Book Submission Tool to submit to them all in one place. Indie Books List indiebookslist.com Indie books lists promotes independent writers and their work. They provide excerpts and links of all book genres. The excerpts are posted daily through their blog, promoting independent authors and self-published works. Pixel of Ink pixelofink.com Pixel of Ink is a husband and wife team who work together to bring you the best deals every day. They're also joined by their three cats who sometimes join in on the fun, though so far, all attempts for them to speak directly to you on Facebook have been successfully thwarted. Though their "keyboard walker" has come incredibly close on many occasions. Ereader News Today ereadernewstoday.com Ereader News Today is made up of writers that are passionate about reading and are also passionate about the Kindle ereading device. Their goal is to bring you the latest news and updates on everything about the Kindle whether it's the first, second or third generation Kindle or the Kindle DX. As new generations of Kindles come out in the future they will give you the latest news and info on those devices also. Books on the Knob blog.booksontheknob.com This blog grew out of an effort to keep my family and friends up to date when books were on sale or free in the Kindle store or an author website. Since then, it's grown to encompass many ebook platforms and includes free or extremely good bargains on music downloads, games or any other item or promotion that catches my interest. In addition to sale books in the major bookstores, I alert readers as to special coupons available for free or nearly free books, but generally disregard any "free samples", "free excerpts", books with advertising or other gimmicks, including those that seem to be mostly intended to get email info for a mailing list (i.e., internet only books created just to give away and drive traffic to a web site). I get more books to review than I can possibly read, but do mention them in conjunction with their release or a special pricing. I don't read all the books that get mentioned on my blog (I don't have the time, for one thing) and most I find on my own and purchase with my own money, a task eased by their being free, for the most part. Some books are sent to me by the author for review, either in electronic or physical form and I try to mention that when the book comes up in a post. Free Booksy freebooksy.com We love to help authors! We've found that lots of authors want to give away their books but don't know how to get the word out to their target readers. That's where we come in. We tell all our Freebooksy readers about your book. Our readers love free ebooks so there is a good chance they will download your book, read it, review it and tell their friends about it. It's a great way to create buzz for your book. Freebooksy works with authors of most genres. (We like to keep things clean so no X-rated material please). In order to give away a book on Freebooksy your book MUST be available for free for the Kindle, Nook or Apple device. Bargaine E-book Hunter bargainebookhunter.com What will you find on our site? We're dedicated to hunting through the digital publishing world looking for eBooks at great deals (from FREE to $5.00) and putting them on our site to provide you, the reader, with a one-stop shopping experience. You will find titles that comprise the full gamut of styles from short stories to novels and from all genres. Flurries of Words flurriesofwords.blogspot.com A site for book reviews, flash fiction, interviews, bargain books and much, much more. Their site also provides advertising options like Free Book Find, Indie New Releases and Book of the Day to name a few. Snicklist snickslist.com A great site to find free kindle books. The site features their latest free kindles and Top Free in Kindle eBooks in Amazon.com. That Book Place thatbookplace.com We started as a small store in the spring of 2006. As a used bookstore in southern Indiana no one expected us to last. We shortly moved into a new facility after opening and have expanded it many times since. For our five-year anniversary we decided to add an author's fair to our normal outdoor tent sale. The feedback was good and we did it again for the six-year anniversary. It is now an annual event that can only get better as the years pass. We branched out into a small press in fall of 2010. Hydra Publications came into being as primarily a small press of Speculative fiction (Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy) so naturally our first book we put out was a historical romance. Today we are looking into doing something new. Thatbookplace.com is going to be a new home to an exciting world of books for the Internet. We want to make it a place where authors can come and meet their fans. Where readers can come and learn of new books. Where... well you get the point. Orangeberry Book Tours orangeberrybooktours.com You've written AND published your masterpiece. Now what? Many eBooks later I will tell you - this is only the beginning. Getting your book to your targeted market is the most challenging task of them all. I've put together several marketing and promotion options for you to choose from. Some are FREE, while others will cost you a cup of coffee or a bit more. But bear in mind that while these options will definitely increase awareness for your book, increased book sales and number of book reviews will differ from book to book. Free Kindle Fiction freekindlefiction.blogspot.com Bring your dragons, aliens, vampires -even sparkly ones. We love dystopian, steampunk, other planets, romances, who-dun-its and other things that your imagination can form! All these books are free at the time of posting. THE PRICE CAN CHANGE at any time so make sure to grab the book for free while you can! These books are free at the time of posting. Amazon.com changes their prices all the time so before you click on the download button, make sure the price for the Kindle Edition (not the Prime Members cost is $0.00 or £0.00.) You've written AND published your masterpiece. Now what? Many eBooks later I will tell you - this is only the beginning. Getting your book to your targeted market is the most challenging task of them all. Indie Book of the Day indiebookoftheday.com Indie Book of the Day (IBD) is a user-powered platform that recognizes the best among Indie Authors by honoring one awesome book everyday, with the indie book of the day award. Indie Passion – Our visitors are passionate readers and our authors are passionate writers, we connect the two and we do all that for free, why? Simple! Because we are awesome and we believe in spreading smiles. Book Recognition – Our philosophy is a simple one, authors don't care for sales or free advertising (at least most of them don't). But every author dreams of recognition, of being awarded and honored. Not because they are famous or rich authors, but because of their love for writing and the impact of their words in the lives of people. Discover – IBD helps visitors discover one awesome book everyday. We bring the most loved books (by popular vote) and feature it to the rest of our visitors for an entire day. But above all, we honor the person behind the written word and recognize their creativity, contribution, hard work and passion for writing. Free Book Dude freebookdude.com FreeBookDude.com was created to help indie authors spread the word on their free titles, as well as help readers find new and interesting authors. If you have a title that will be going free for either the Amazon Kindle or the Barnes & Noble Nook, please fill out this form to let us know. Along with allowing you to share your free titles with new readers, FreeBookDude.com would like offer a guest post spot, if you would like. These spots are a great way to connect with readers. If you have a book tour coming up, feel free to inquire about scheduling FreeBookDude.com for a stop. Thank you for taking the time to post your free title with FreeBookDude.com. Again, you may want to use Author Marketing Club's Free Kindle Book Submission Tool for the complete list of these top free sites where you can submit your free kindle in one site. Just click on the logos on the site to load each site's form, fill in your details, and you're done. Editor's Note: I found this new video by Jim. It's a great concept. After watching it, visit his link to the project at http://www.jimkukral.com/jimforlife/ ------- -------- Tony Eldridge is the author of The Samson Effect, an action/adventure novel that Clive Cussler calls a "first rate thriller brimming with intrigue and adventure." He is also the author of the Twitter marketing book, Conducting Effective Twitter Contests. His new novel, The Lottery Ticket, was just recently released on Kindle. 
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