Frequently Asked Questions

What is BookBuzzr?

BookBuzzr is primarily a suite of DIY (Do-It-Yourself) book marketing technologies. We provide a variety of book marketing and book promotion technologies.

Why do I need BookBuzzr?

As an author you need to think about only two activities:
  • Produce the highest quality content
  • Promote that content to your target audience
BookBuzzr takes care of most of the second activity. The BookBuzzr Book Tweeting feature tweets about your book in a creative, non-annoying manner to your Twitter followers. And it does this even on days when you can't get to your Twitter account.

Or consider the BookBuzzr Flipper and BookBuzzr Mini Widget which act as a much more engaging replacement for your book cover. Their pages flip like a real book and invite your readers to actually sample your book.

How is BookBuzzr different from other book promotion and marketing technologies?

The table below should help you understand how BookBuzzr is different:

BookBuzzrScribdIssuuGoogle Books
BookBuzzr Flipper of your book (like a portable author website that can be shared on Facebook, MySpace, Blogs etc.)YESNOYESYES
Sample of your book with pages that flip like a real bookYESNONONO
Connects your book-sampler with your Twitter account and markets your book on TwitterYESNONONO
Markets your book through an interactive game on the world's biggest book-winning siteYESNONONO
Sends you alerts when your Amazon sales rank changes (saves you hours a day)YESNONONO

What type of payments does BookBuzzr.com accept?

BookBuzzr has opted to build it's payment processing solution using PayPal's payment processing system. This is because PayPal is secure and trusted by millions of people.

Your existing Visa or Mastercard credit card will work with PayPal.

Are the prices per book or per author?

They are per book. So if you are an author with 3 books, you will need to purchase 3 separate BookBuzzr Pro plans. Or you might choose to have a BookBuzzr Pro plan only for your latest book. Many of our authors have multiple books subscribed for the premium plans.

What is your membership cancellation policy?

If you are an author who has subscribed for BookBuzzr Pro plan, you can cancel at any time if you think it's not adding value to your book promotion efforts.

If you cancel before the payment due date, your subscription to Pro plan will continue till the billing period ends (1 month from the date of last payment received) and your account will be downgraded to a basic account.

Cancellations may be made by sending an email to [email protected], or by logging into your 'My Account' page on the website and by following the onscreen prompts.

From the time one signs up with BookBuzzr how long does it take for the services to be up and running?

When an author signs up / subscribes with BookBuzzr all the services / technologies will be activated immediately. You, however, need to spend the time in installing the widgets on your blog, website and Facebook page. If you have any challenges in getting started, our tech team is available for help.

How do I allow readers to see only the first chapter of the book instead of the whole book in BookBuzzr Flipper?

1. Log in to www.bookbuzzr.com
2. Select your book.
3. Click on Manage Book Excerpt option in the left hand side menu which is below your book cover.
4. Click on Page Setup option.
5. Scroll down the page and click on the radio button Select Pages (e.g. Page No. 20 to Page No. 30), enter the page numbers you would like to display in 'Display pages from Page No. - to Page No. - section', click on 'Add' and finally click on 'Save and Next'.

Is the BookBuzzr Flipper free?

It is free for 14 days. Authors simply have to sign-up on the www.bookbuzzr.com site, upload their book-extract and other information and they get a beautiful widget with flipping pages. BookBuzzr Flipper is like a portable author website that allows for marketing of the book on Facebook, MySpace, Linked-in and Twitter. The BookBuzzr Flipper also acts as a more engaging replacement for an author's book-cover image. The flipper also holds sales or buying details. When the reader buys the book the author makes money. Please sign-up and you can get started right away. Or if you need us to help you with uploading and set-up, we'll be happy to do so.

How to put the mini-widget in a sidebar of a WordPress blog?

To get the mini-widget in the side bar of wordpress blog please follow the instructions below.

  • Log In to the wordpress blog.
  • You will be directed to the Dashboard.
  • On the left hand side you can see the 'Appearance'. Click on this.
  • You can see various options under this.
  • You can see the 'Widgets' option. Click on this option.
  • You get to see the 'Available Widgets' / 'Inactive widgets'.
  • Drag and drop the widget named 'Text' for Arbitrary text or HTML into the sidebar.
  • Click on the 'Text' widget. You can see an empty box and a title bar.
  • Paste the mini-widget code into the empty box and give some title in the title bar.
  • Click on the save option.
  • Next check your blog/site. You can see the mini-widget in the sidebar.

I'm enrolled in Amazon's KDP Program. Can I still use your tools?

Absolutely. BookBuzzr does not sell books. It only helps you market your books. BookBuzzr complements your KDP promotions very nicely. For example, when you run a KDP Free Day, you can use our landing page widget to announce it to your site visitors.


I want my book to appear in your newsletter. What can I do?

You can get your book into the newsletter in the following ways:
  • If your BookBuzzr flipper views are among the top 10 for the previous month.
  • If your book full screen views are among the top for the previous month.
  • If your book page views (total number of pages viewed) are among the top 10 for the previous month.

How do I set up the BookBuzzr Amazon Alerts feature?

Checking Amazon Sales Rank can be a major time waster for most authors. So we went ahead and developed an automated sales rank reporting tool which sends you an email only when your book's sales rank improves. We've been astounded by the number of authors who have adopted the BookBuzzr Amazon Alerts service. Please note that this service is available only to BookBuzzr DIY Pro subscribes (i.e. authors who have subscribed to BookBuzzr DIY Pro.)

How do I set up BookBuzzr Book Tweeter?

We often hear queries from authors about how to use BookBuzzrs Book Tweeting technology to market books on Twitter. The idea is to help authors market their books on Twitter with a large degree of automation (and without annoying the followers of the authors.)

If you are a new or existing author on BookBuzzr, this blog post about how to automate marketing your book on Twitter with BookBuzzr (aka Book Tweeter) should help you add in your Twitter details and start marketing your book on Twitter.

What if I forget my password?

If you've forgotten your password, reset your password here.

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