Last week I complained a bit about Amazon ads, so to be fair, I’ll give BookBub some airplay.
BookBub operates in much the same way as Amazon does, it that you have to win bids to get your ad shown, and if someone clicks on your ad, you get charged that amount. So, you have to know what your profit margin is for each book and price your bid accordingly-you don’t want to pay people to read your book. But if you don’t bid high enough, your ad doesn’t get shown. Also in the mix is that if someone clicks your ad, the likelihood that your ad gets shown goes up.
Their ad design is straight-forward and there is no vetting like Amazon does, so once you create your ad, it’s live. There are many variables for the ads, so it’s difficult to compare one author’s ad to another. If your ad is not doing well, they email you and suggest that you either up your bid (of course) or redesign. I’ll show the ad that BookBub uses as an example of a successful ad, along with the one I created.
One of the suggestions was to use BookBrush to create ads. I suspect they are owned by BookBub. What is nice about it is the ad is the correct size (300 x 250), so no tweaking required, and you can layer text and images for a professional look.
They give you a chart to show how well- or poorly- your ad is doing:
There are many variables for success. The popularity of the genre, bid amount, etc. The one controllable variable in all this is the cover. People do judge a book by its cover. Since I like my cover, it’s hard to step back and critique, so what do you think? Let me know.
Leon Stevens is a composer, artist, and author of three books (so far): Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures, The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories, and Journeys: Eight Original Pieces for Classical Guitar
Lines by Leon 
I subscribe to bookBub for me it’s the cover and the synopsis if it leaves me curious about what happens, than I buy. However it’s hard to do that when you have a book of short stories unless they have a beginning one that tires the others into it. The illustrated man is a great example of this. Well that’s my take on it.
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My thought was since my book is mostly science fiction stories, then my cover needed to reflect that. I hope it does.
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I guess what I meant, there is nothing intriguing to raise my curiosity IMHO I do not say this to offend your work.
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None taken, I appreciate the feedback.
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🙂
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