Greetings INscribers,
This summer is already full of promotions!
- New Retailers: Zola Books & Epic!
- Book Expo 2017
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Upcoming Promos:
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OverDrive "All In" Adult Fiction Sale (Due May 19)
- Kobo Mystery & Thriller BMSM (Due May 24)
- Kobo Father's Day BMSM (Due May 26)
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Kobo Beach Ready Books (Due tomorrow May 18)
- Kobo 200 Under £2 (Fiction) (Due May 22)
- Kobo Father's Day Sale (Due May 29)
- Kobo June Super Sale (Due June 5)
- Kobo Read With Pride BMSM (Due May 22)
- Google Play Promotions (see below for due dates)
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Tip of the Week: Help Desk Tips
All the best,
Team INscribe
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New Retailers: Zola Books & Epic!
We're happy to introduce Zola Books (formerly Bookish) and Epic! as a new INscribe retailers.
If you do NOT wish us to distribute to Zola Books and/or Epic!, please let us know by Friday, June 2 by emailing help@inscribedigital.com or placing a ticket at help.inscribedigital.com.
You must also opt out of these services individually in your metadata. An updated spreadsheet will be provided to coincide with the launch. If you have retailer restrictions in your contract and would like to expand, please let us know as well.
If you do not respond by the above deadline and do not have a contract that limits distribution, we will automatically begin sending your content to bookshout! and Ingram when we officially launch later this month.
Retailer Information:
Zola Books’ mission is to provide best-in-class technology to authors, publishers, booksellers, and others looking to create direct relationships with readers through their primary model/feature, the ecommerce widget The Everywhere Store, which is free to use.
Payout comes when a bookseller/blogger/etc includes one of your titles in their widget and their customer buys the book. The publisher is paid 50% minus IPG's rev share. If the sale comes through the widget placed on the publisher website, an additional payment of 50% of Zola's 50% is made directly to the publisher.
Example: A book is sold from the widget at $10. Zola pays IPG $5, who passes on what's left after rev share. Of Zola's $5, Zola keeps $2.50, and directly pays the publisher $2.50.
Epic! is a subscription service for children's content that provides an unlimited selection of eBooks that can be instantly discovered, read and shared with friends. Epic! is available on all iOS and Android devices.
Epic! only accepts titles with Juvenile/YA BISACs and focuses on ages 12 & under.
Epic! pays based on the percentage of views one publisher's content receives relative to the total views of all content within the Epic! app per quarter, multiplied by a revenue share percentage of 55%.
Example: The Epic! app has 10,000 active subscribers paying $7.99/month generating $79,900 for the quarter. If a publisher's content accounts for 5% of the total views that occurred within the app for Q2, the payout will be 55% of $3,995 (5% of the quarter total), or $2,197.25.
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BookExpo 2017
We are looking forward to attending Book Expo this year, May 30 - June 3. This year, INscribe will be joining IPG's booths 1702, 1703, 1803.
Larry Norton, Kelly Peterson, and Alli Davis will all be in attendance. If you will be at Book Expo and would like to schedule an appointment at our booth, please reach out to adavis@inscribedigital.com.
Kelly will also present on the Author Markets Stage on "How Key Words Can Make You Rich" on Thursday, June 2 from 10:30am-10:50am. Please feel free to join us!
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OverDrive's "All In" Adult Fiction Sale
This June OverDrive is "All In" with Cleveland on their biggest adult fiction eBook sale ever! Grow sales as CLE celebrates all things fiction.
Dates: June 1 - 30
Sale Discount: 25-50%
Genre: Adult Fiction
Due: Friday, May 19
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Kobo Mystery & Thriller BMSM
Kobo US will be running Mystery & Thriller Multi-Publisher Buy More Save More (BMSM) sale. The BMSM descriptive language will be “Get 3 for the price of 2.”
Dates: June 1 - 6
Price Point: $4.99 & above ONLY
Due: Wednesday, May 24
The sale will be promoted as follows:
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Email support:
- Dedicated email June 2
- Email feature on June 4
- Homepage hero banner support
Please assume that all titles submitted will be included in the sale, unless you hear otherwise. And remember, with a BMSM, there’s no pricing to schedule – hooray!
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Kobo Father's Day BMSM
Now it’s time to turn our attention to our fave dads. Kobo CA and US will be running a Father’s Day Multi-Publisher Buy More Save More (BMSM) sale. The BMSM descriptive language will be “Get 3 for the price of 2.”
Dates: June 15-19
Price Point: $4.99 & above ONLY
Due: Friday, May 26
Kobo will promote this sale as follows:
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Email support:
- Dedicated email to each base on June 16
- Email feature to each base on June 18
- Homepage hero banner support
- Kobo social support
Please assume that all titles submitted will be included in the sale, unless you hear otherwise. And remember, with a BMSM, there’s no pricing to schedule – hooray!
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Kobo Beach Ready Books
Kobo CA and US will be running a Beach Ready Books promotion. We’re looking for mass market content promotionally priced at for the duration of the sale. You are welcome to submit for both the CA and/or US version of the sale, using the attached grid.
Dates: June 20 - 30
Price Point: $2.99 & under (excluding free)
Due: TOMORROW Thursday, May 18
Genre: Page turners across all genres (fiction, mystery, romance, nonfiction, celeb memoirs, etc). Think quick and easy reads to enjoy on the beach.
Kobo’s support for this sale is as follows:
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Dedicated email to each base on June 7
- Homepage hero banner
- Kobo social support
Please note that Kobo not able to guarantee inclusion for all titles. Please assume that all titles submitted will be included in the sale, unless you hear otherwise.
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Kobo 200 under £2 (Fiction)
Kobo UK is running a June fiction price drop.
Dates: June 8-14
Price Point: 0.99-1.99
Territories: UK only
Due: Monday, May 22
Genre: Fiction only
Please note that Kobo not able to guarantee inclusion for all titles. Please assume that all titles submitted will be included in the sale, unless you hear otherwise.
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Kobo Father’s Day Sale
Kobo is running a Father's Day Promotion.
Dates: June 15-19
Price Point: .99-3.99
Due: Monday, May 29
Genre: Crime, thriller, adventure, humor, etc.
Please note that Kobo not able to guarantee inclusion for all titles. Please assume that all titles submitted will be included in the sale, unless you hear otherwise.
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Kobo June Super Sale
Kobo UK is running a Super Sale Promotion for June.
Dates: 20-30 June (inclusive)
Price Point: 0.99-3.99 for UK (up to 4.99 for IE)
Territories: UK and optional IE
Due: Monday, June 5
Please note that Kobo not able to guarantee inclusion for all titles. Please assume that all titles submitted will be included in the sale, unless you hear otherwise.
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Kobo June Read With Pride BMSM
To celebrate Pride Month, Kobo CA and US will be running a ‘Read with Pride’ Multi-Publisher Buy More, Save More (BMSM) sale for the entire month of June. The BMSM descriptive language will be “Get 3 for the price of 2.”
Dates: June 1 - 30
Price Point: only titles price $4.99 & above will be accepted
Due: Monday, May 22
Genre: Titles across all genres that feature LGBTQ2 protagonists, authors, or themes. Please indicate sub-genre and as many details (ex. M/M) as possible.
Kobo will promote this sale as follows:
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Email support:
- Dedicated email to each base on June 19
- Additional email features throughout the month
- Homepage banner support
- Kobo social support
Please note that Kobo not able to guarantee inclusion for all titles. Please assume that all titles submitted will be included in the sale, unless you hear otherwise.
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Google Play Promotions
Google is accepting nominations for the below upcoming promotions.
You can now nominate your titles to Google directly by nominating via the links below for each promotion below.
**Note: Nominations are limited to 5 titles per category per publisher. These submissions forms are linked directly to Google's merchandising team. As such, INscribe does not have access to view your submissions and manage the discounts. Please upload a price campaign for INscribe after nominating your titles.
**Your Google Contact for the form is services@inscribedigital.com.
Promos
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Father's Day (June 8-19): Focus on Gifting books on Play for Father's Day, featuring top selling titles (all genres); nominations due May 18
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Summer Sale (June 29-July 6): Big, global, cross-vertical promotion, featuring top titles on sale (adult, YA, and children's books included); nominations due June 8
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Tip of the Week
Help Desk Tips
Did you know, replying to a resolved ticket will reopen it. If you don't feel like your ticket has been resolved, feel free to reply to the ticket and provide more information. We'll be happy to look into things further.
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