Best ARC distribution tools
- BookFunnel handles delivery and reader support from around $20 per year.
- BookSirens and BookSprout supply readers as well as delivery.
- StoryOrigin bundles delivery with newsletter swaps and ARC management.
- NetGalley reaches librarians and trade reviewers at publisher pricing.
- Your own email list is the highest-converting channel and costs nothing.
Use BookFunnel for delivery, because it absorbs the reader support problem. Use BookSirens, BookSprout, or Hidden Gems when you need readers you do not have. Start with your own list, which converts better than any paid service and costs nothing but the send.
Chapter i·Why it matters
Authors conflate two jobs: getting the file to a reader and finding the reader in the first place. BookFunnel solves the first brilliantly and does not solve the second. Buying a review service when your delivery is broken, or vice versa, wastes money on the wrong half of the problem.
Chapter ii·What to include
- Delivery reliability and reader support, which BookFunnel leads on.
- Reader supply, which BookSirens, BookSprout, and Hidden Gems provide.
- Reporting on who actually posted, so cost per review is measurable.
- Your own list, invited first, every time.
- Genre fit of the service's reader base.
- A total ARC budget set before the launch, not during it.
Chapter iii·Example
An author paid for a review service while delivering files by email and spent her launch week answering sideloading questions. Moving delivery to BookFunnel cost $20 a year and gave her the week back.
Chapter iv·Related questions
In WriteLoom
A launch plan, not a launch day
WriteLoom tracks your ARC list, delivery, and who has posted, so follow-up is a filter instead of an afternoon.
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