July 17 2008: We are sold out of ad space for August & September across BookBrowse, so we are unable to run the Showcase in either month.
We hope to have space to reinstate the Showcase for October and beyond. So, if you wish to book an ad in the Showcase, please do so - but only for October onwards.
Got questions? Please call us at 1-800-745-5306 x 101, or email by clicking the "Got Questions" button.
BookBrowse Showcase Summary
A very low cost, high impact vehicle for advertising your book, product or service to BookBrowse's audience of avid readers and book lovers, offering:
- Exceptional value for money: We undercut our own advertising rates by more than 60% to offer the Showcase to you
at such low rates.
You pay just $198 (US) for a month
of advertising, plus a one-time $49 setup fee.
- During the month your ad will be shown across at least 600,000 pages.
Actual page views for each advertiser by month:
December 2007: 714,716
January 2008: 816,702
February 2008: 800,911
- We only count pages viewed by real humans! Unlike many, we don't include the search engine spiders that constantly
crawl the web updating search engines such as Google or Yahoo in our stats. If we did the monthly page view stats would be inflated by about 50%!
Please take this into account when comparing our already exceptional value to other websites that may not exclude automated traffic such as spiders!
- 7 out of 10 publishers/authors who booked one month in the BookBrowse Showcase return to book additional months - which, because there is no setup fee, cost just $198/month
- $198/month is less than $7/day!
- We have very limited availability. Sometimes we have room for 8 Showcase advertisers in a month, othertimes, we only have room for 4 - so please do book early.
- You will be able to track the number of pages your ad has been shown on in real time at anytime you
like via login/password, so that you know you're getting what you've paid for!
- BookBrowse offers a highly targeted audience:
91% of visitors are college educated, 75% are aged between 35-64 and 86% live in the USA. Of course, they are also avid readers (81% read 3+ books each month and 28% read 6+) and buyers of books (89% buy at least one book a month and 45% buy 3 or more).
Many also influence other people's reading and purchasing habits: 42% are active book club members and 13% are librarians and booksellers.
You'll find a chart showing what they read by genre below.
"After spending over $100,000 promoting my bestselling YA novel, Paraworld Zero,
I can confidently say that my little ad on BookBrowse.com sent more people to www.ParaWorlds.com than any other advertisement,
including my extensive ads in Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, The Bloomsbury Review,
ForeWord Magazine, and even The New York Times Book Review. I highly recommend BookBrowse.com."
- Matthew Peterson, award-winning author of the Parallel Worlds series.
Details
There are two parts to the BookBrowse Showcase; you get both for just $198 per month (plus a one-time setup fee of $49).
- Display Advertisement:
- Your ad will run in the left or right border of BookBrowse in rotation with 3 other advertisements for at least 600,000 page views during a given month - so that your ad is seen on every page view
at least once.
- Your ad can be any size up to a maximum width and height of 150 x 150 pixels. See the right hand border of this page to see
the Showcase in action.
- When visitors click your ad they will jump straight through to the end destination you choose (e.g. your website, a bookseller, or to more information on the internal Showcase page at BookBrowse).
- The position of the Showcase block is not guaranteed but will usually be about mid-way down the left or right hand page.
- All you need to do is send us your book jacket image and we will create a simple but effective 150x150 px ad for you
(that you're free to use elsewhere if you wish).
Alternatively, you can design your own ad and send it to us (ads must be single frames, no larger that 150x150 px).
- BookBrowse Showcase:
- You also get a 275 pixel wide by 200 pixel high advertisement in the BookBrowse Showcase to more fully describe your book or product. Click here to open the current 'Showcase' page).
- The amount of words you can fit in this space depends on the size of your graphic.
Usually, a good balance between the image and words is about 20 words with a graphic of about 100 x 145 pixels. If you choose to have a lower or higher word-count BookBrowse will increase or reduce the size of your image so that the space is fully utilized. Alternatively, if you have an ad that fits the space, you can use this instead.
To get started, just fill out the quick and easy order form and we'll do the rest for you.
More About BookBrowse's Visitors
Please use the chart below to decide if BookBrowse's audience is right for your book or product (for general demographics, please see the top of this page).
| BookBrowse Visitors Read....
|
Often |
Sometimes |
Total |
| Novels |
79% |
20% |
99% |
| Historical Fiction |
30% |
60% |
90% |
| Romances |
11% |
34% |
45% |
| Mysteries |
48% |
42% |
90% |
| Thrillers |
30% |
52% |
82% |
| Horror |
5% |
28% |
33% |
| Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
10% |
39% |
49% |
| Biography/Memoir |
33% |
61% |
94% |
| History/Current Affairs |
24% |
58% |
82% |
| Travel & Adventure |
14% |
57% |
71% |
| Self Help/Inspiration |
9% |
52% |
61% |
| Diet/Health |
8% |
57% |
65% |
| Religion & Spirituality |
11% |
45% |
56% |
| Business Related |
3% |
32% |
35% |
Source: February 2007 survey, sample size 1,313.
Benefits of the Internet vs. Traditional Media
Traditional media, such as magazines and newspapers, sell advertising on the basis of 'opportunities to see'. For example, if a newspaper sells 100,000 copies and believes that on average each of these copies is read by 2 people, it will claim your ad has the opportunity to be seen by 200,000 people. However, having the opportunity to see is very different to actually seeing. The majority of readers are unlikely even to turn to the page where your ad is displayed, let alone take note of it!
In contrast, BookBrowse delivers actual ad views. When our ad server records an ad view it is because a real live human is looking at the page displaying your ad. In fact, because most ISPs cache (store) pages on their own servers and serve them to their customers multiple times before refreshing, your ad will most likely be seen by more people than the ad server records.
Notes and Restrictions
BookBrowse reserves the right to refuse any advertisement that we consider unsuitable for BookBrowse's general audience, including books/products with an overtly sexual/pornographic nature. If we are unable to run your ad, your payment will be refunded less a $10 handling fee (to cover the cost of processing and refunding the credit card transaction). If you are in any doubt whether your book, product or service is suitable for BookBrowse please email us before placing your order.
Page views are estimates only and cannot be guaranteed. Having said that, BookBrowse usually serves around 1.5 million page views/month so it is unlikely that
we will fall short of delivering you 600,000 ad views - and to date have always over-delivered by a significant factor.
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