CraveBooks Reviews

I love Cravebooks. Their site is upfront and honest. Their prices are reasonable and the Book Ninja Summit was AWESOME!!!!

Date of experience: May 11, 2024

I am an indie author with 12 books published. When I launch a book or run a book sale, I always run CraveBooks Daily Deal promotions. It always gets new readers to see and buy my books (and it's super easy to use). I highly recommend making CraveBooks a part of every author's marketing strategy.

Date of experience: April 22, 2024

CraveBooks provides an incredible service to indie authors. The opportunities it provides helped me to grow my email list from 72 to more than 3000 in just five months. In addition, they provide a lot of opportunities to learn a lot about marketing books.

Date of experience: May 17, 2024

Crave Books is impressive, and I love promoting my books through their easy system. I highly recommend it for authors to use.

Date of experience: May 13, 2024

I feel CraveBooks has provided me with great customer service. I asked them to set up a promotion package, and they did. I sure it helped me get over 900 of my books out during my 4 day promotion.

Date of experience: May 07, 2024

Great site and service! I use it for my Children's books. I've been taking advantage of their reader magnet feature to help build my email list and the list builders are great, too!

They've been super helpful in getting my email list started with a strong base of readers.

Plus, it's super easy to run a promotion. Your data is saved so you just have to click on the book your want to promote then click on the promotions you want to run :)

Date of experience: May 08, 2024

I can not express to you how pivotal this company is to the success of independent authors. It provides several effective methods to gain exposure through advertising, plus a huge one: how to establish and grow your own email lists. I have 2500 emails now and growing!! It's our job as authors to find the correct target market and CraveBooks is there to help us gain exposure to their large and growing audience of true book lovers.

Date of experience: March 14, 2024

I've been a member of Cravebooks since the beginning and have had great success with the promotional services they offer. Their packages are reasonably priced and easy to sign up for. I have found them professional and quick to respond to any inquiries I may have. I especially like the "list-building giveaways" and have gained hundreds of new contacts for my newsletter. The fact that they break the events down by genre is even better. They deliver what they promise and are my go-to for the successful promotions of my books. I recommend Cravebooks and will continue to use their services.

Tory Richards

Date of experience: January 11, 2024

This site is excellent for authors. It is designed to help them reach readers in their genre. And the staff provides personal assistance to hep get the most out of the services offered. Within the first month I have already seen results of joining.

Date of experience: March 31, 2024

This is a great website for authors, and the results are more than promised. The site is easy to use, and the response to any questions is very fast. I recommend all authors use this.When I participated in a building giveaway, the results were four times the promised figures.

Date of experience: March 29, 2024

I found that giving away books did not increase sales. I had over 1500 email lists and followed through with emails. it didn't help my book.An explanation could be beneficial for other authors who are promoting their books. My book caters to a specific Christian audience and serves as a self-help guide on dealing with abuse, which means it may not resonate with everyone. Despite having a substantial number of email addresses from Cravebooks, I reached out to them with polite and straightforward emails to further engage with the audience. Unfortunately, I did not receive any response at all. This led me to believe the list may not have been targeted enough for my book. Additionally, I discovered that reasonably priced, targeted email lists are available for purchase online. This worked better for me as I was able to build a private following. Since giving away books didn’t seem to help, I wanted to cancel giving away further books but didn’t realize once you signed up for the giveaways, canceling it was difficult. However, the company did reach out to me, and we resolved the situation. My situation should not affect another novelist who might need a more general audience. Cravebooks created nice ads and kept my book out in public through continuous campaigns. That is always helpful, and I would be happy to use them again. Promoting books is difficult, and using several sources can be very beneficial. Thank-you.

Date of experience: April 17, 2024

I used CraveBooks for newsletter growth for my romance author brand.

Pros:
- It was very simple to set up
- It was not very expensive
- There was a high volume of signups
- ~20 of the new subscribers went on to join my ARC reader group

Cons:
- The click-rate for these new signups is .7% (compared to Written Word Media's newsletter growth program which has a click-rate of 6%)
- I got reported as spam a *lot* in the first few weeks by the new signups, this caused significant issues with a launch campaign
- High volume of unsubscribes in the first two weeks (1/4th of the initial group)

Cost to value, I'd still say this was a net win. The timing of everything with my new release and getting reported as spam was not CraveMedia's fault, therefore I won't let it affect my star rating.

Date of experience: February 15, 2024

As an an independent author building a mailing list is key for building your readership and this can be very difficult and it can take a long time. CraveBooks has a variety of excellent tools for authors to help them build that mailing list and gain and increase their readership.

Date of experience: March 01, 2024

Shubhi was very helpful in navigating my Mailchimp page. She is kind and very professional. Because of her, I have regained my faith in Cravebooks. THANK YOU, SHUBHI,

Date of experience: March 18, 2024

they have awesome giveaways and some amazing authors... I won an Amazon fire tablet 7 and I use CraveBooks daily! highly recommend them !

Date of experience: March 27, 2024

This company is wonderful! I won an Amazon fire tablet 7 through them and I use it daily! Very grateful and can’t recommend them enough!

Date of experience: March 29, 2024

I don't know if the company can help. I did the giveaway for my book Seeking the Light of Justice. In 24 hours, you gave away 1263 books. That sounds great. I got emails from all those people. However, it didn't generate one sale or review. I did a giveaway on Goodreads and got the same results. I am doing the same on my website. The results are the same: No reviews and no future sales. It's a total waste of time and money.

Date of experience: March 21, 2024

Love the options given on the site. And the giveaways are amazing. I won a giveaway with the Kindle Fire 7.

Date of experience: April 05, 2024

I received a large e-mail list to begin building invaluable reader contacts to assist with my promotional efforts.

Date of experience: March 22, 2024

Fast response from emails. Always the best of teams.

Date of experience: March 29, 2024