How to set your books FREE for a stuff your e-Reader event

We'll show you how-to step by step

At Raccoon Literary, we understand the importance of making your books accessible to readers by setting them to free. By doing so, you not only reduce frustration for potential fans but also open the door to a wider audience eager to discover your stories. Our team is dedicated to guiding you through the essential steps to ensure your books are priced correctly. With our experience in price matching techniques, we’ll help you maximize visibility and engagement, creating a seamless experience for readers. Let us help you make this a successful stuff your e-reader event!

Draft2Digital

Are you a wide author utilizing Draft2Digital (D2D) as an aggregate to distribute your books? Here’s a how-to on how to set your books as FREE for a sale during a specific date range.

On the D2D platform, you should see the big orange button on the top right hand side that says “My Books”. Click it to take your to your list of distributed titles. From there, find the book you are wanting to submit to the event and click into it.

Once you find the title you are submitting, click on the green “Promotions” tab to the right hand side of the title. It’s hard to miss.

This will lead you to their promotions page within your book listing. There should be an orange button that says “schedule a promotion”. Hit that.

Now comes the important details. Double and triple check what you are inputting. Make sure change the new price to ZERO and give your promotion a name so you do not forget what it’s for. This name will not be showcased to anyone. It will be for your own organizational purposes. I would highly suggest labeling it something like “stuff with closed-doors” or something similar. Next, Click your start and end dates. Here, I would suggest you do a day before the actual event, and for the end date, a day after the actual event date. This will cover your bases in case you have readers from other sides of the world.

This sample image is NOT THE ACTUAL DATE. It is for example purposes only. Again, make sure your price is ZERO and you find the correct dates with buffer for error.

Once you have double and tripled check your information, you can now click on the orange button labeled “schedule a promotion”.

Once it is completed, it should now show up under your “promotions” tab for the specific book. The promotion will show up like so.

Barns n Noble Direct

Are you a wide author going through Barns n Noble DIRECTLY to distribute your books? Here’s a how-to on how to set your books as FREE for a sale during a specific date range.

Go to your projects and bring up your list of books.

Scroll down through your details until you reach the area that states “pricing”.

You will be taken to a page with a pie chart. Ignore that and click on the tab that says “create a new price”.

Barns n Nobles makes it easy to change price as well as schedule a sale. Make sure you click on “Yes, I will set and end date” for your sale to make sure your price returns to its original listing after the sale is done. Once you have completed this, click “save & continue”.

**stay tuned for the next post for Kobo Direct**