Crowdfunding a guide simply acquired an entire lot simpler.
We’re thrilled to announce our new integration with BookFunnel, the go-to platform for indie authors and publishers to distribute ebooks and audiobooks on to their readers.
Now, if you launch a guide marketing campaign on BackerKit, you possibly can mechanically ship digital rewards to backers proper in the mean time they pledge, reserve, or observe your marketing campaign. Readers who unlock digital rewards are instantly proven a singular hyperlink to their BookFunnel library the place they will entry their digital rewards immediately.
For readers and backers: This implies no ready till the marketing campaign ends to obtain digital rewards and much more cause to again your marketing campaign on day one.
For creators: This affords extra pledge incentives to construct early marketing campaign momentum, together with a hassle-free, automated course of that solves digital rewards success – for good.
No CSVs. No handbook emails. No delays . Simply a straightforward, seamless expertise for you and your readers.
Ebook lovers, particularly in the event that they’re your followers, need entry to your newest work. They usually need it now.
Give them precisely what they need: digital content material delivered as Instantaneous Entry Rewards effortlessly fulfilled by our BookFunnel integration.
Providing digital rewards that may be loved instantly can function a robust pledge incentive, serving to drive pre-launch and launch day conversions and early momentum that carries all through the marketing campaign – all whereas fixing the necessity to handle and distribute digital rewards.
See it in motion: The Bluebeard Chronicles by Bonkers Romance
Greatest-selling authors and professional crowdfunding creators of Bonkers Romance – with over 2M copies bought, over $2.6M crowdfunded – are the primary to make use of BackerKit’s new BookFunnel integration of their newest marketing campaign: The Bluebeard Chronicles has already raised $525K and is poised to be their highest-funded marketing campaign ever.
On this marketing campaign, Bonkers Romance authors Katee Robert and Jenny Norbak deliver collectively 4 different beloved romance writers, every delivering their “darkish and scrumptious renditions of the Bluebeard fairy story.”
By means of this integration, readers who again the challenge get an Instantaneous Entry Reward: Early Launch of A Monstrous Want – one of many six books included in The Bluebeard Chronicles.
On our latest webinar, Katee Robert and Jenny Norbak shared why this integration is such a sport changer:
[1-min. clip] Lastly – a seamless expertise for authors and readers >>
Katee: We determined to highlight one of many books being supplied, by permitting it to be an instantaneous entry e-book. In order quickly as they again the challenge, they get entry to this. And It’s built-in with BookFunnel, so they simply ship them a hyperlink mechanically. We don’t have to the touch something. No one’s had any issues – not a single query.
[1-min. clip] Why this can be a game-changer >>
Jenny: This collaboration is large. We’ve been begging for this to be seamless for years – and also you all made it occur.
We will’t emphasize how game-changing that is for authors. It’s actually huge – and it’ll actually influence the reader expertise.
Katee: Particularly if you’re delivering a number of books. You simply need to click on a button. Earlier than the mixing, one of the simplest ways to ship e-books was by print codes, however that’s nonetheless placing codes for every of the six books. So to have the ability to have six books simply linked mechanically with an integration is, as Jenny mentioned, a sport changer.
[1-min. clip] A proof of idea on your guide, model, and future crowdfunding tasks >>
Katee: And it’s additionally displaying proof of idea in order that after we do ship the remainder of the e-book, they already understand it’s gonna really feel good and be seamless as a result of they’ve already skilled it within the backing course of.
Jenny: In so some ways, that’s what we’re up towards, the expertise of going to Amazon and clicking an e-book, and one click on, it’s on their e-reader. And now we have a distinct expertise, and we’re all the time going to, and one that’s extra enjoyable – however the much less friction there may be after they really attempt to get their books, the extra they’re prone to come again and be crowdfunding once more sooner or later.
So we actually respect the ways in which BackerKit continues to take heed to us – that’s only a huge factor – and helps us to make that reader expertise higher.
Associated: Why did Bonkers Romance transfer over to BackerKit? Hear straight from Katee Robert and Jenny Norbak (1-minute clips).
How It Works
For backers, discovering and receiving instantaneous digital rewards is intuitive and straightforward.
- Digital rewards are clearly marked “Instantaneous Entry” within the reward tier
- Hyperlinks to entry digital rewards are supplied as quickly as backers full their pledge, observe, or reservation
- With a single click on, they’re taken to their BookFunnel library the place they will begin studying or listening instantly
*Word: Backers might want to setup a BookFunnel account to entry their library
For authors and publishers, setup is easy.
How you can arrange:
- Contact BookFunnel assist to request your BookFunnel API key
- Join your BookFunnel account utilizing your BookFunnel API key
- Choose the digital reward to incorporate in your pledge ranges
- Enter the corresponding Ebook UID for every reward in your pledge degree
- Add an non-compulsory title and directions on your backers
See the complete setup information.
Use the BookFunnel Integration Right this moment
Improve to the brand new commonplace.
After you create an energetic crowdfunding marketing campaign on BackerKit, you’ll want a BookFunnel account on their Greatest Vendor or Writer plan plus your BookFunnel API key. From there, setup takes only a few minutes in your challenge’s Integrations tab.
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