Book & Main

About the offering

Romance novels are #1 in book sales - Romance is the highest grossing genre representing almost one-third of all fiction sold. Over 75M Americans (estimated at 2-3x globally) read romance novels each year, with 46% reading more than one novel per week. As the romance genre lends itself towards self publishing, authors are turning to online platforms to help them promote their publications and are willing to pay a premium to display their work. There is a huge market not only for those interested in buying and reading romance novels, but also for the authors who’d like a place to share their work in a space dedicated to romance readers. Visibility & Discoverability - In an extremely competitive, over-saturated market, authors spend too much time and too much money marketing their books to the wrong readers. Readers waste inordinate amounts of time and money trying to find their next read, because the way they find books today is broken. Currently, readers are only presented with book covers and ‘blurbs,’ synopses oftentimes not written by the author, but also mismatched categories and searches that are weighed down by a retailer’s algorithms. Book+Main gives readers a search tool that uses a vast array of keywords that connect them directly to an author’s words, while also giving authors the tools they need to immediately connect their work to readers in search of what they’re writing. Book+Main: literary matchmaker for readers and authors. Book+Main provides a sales and marketing tool hosted on a platform comprised of an all-romance audience. Authors upload Bites—excerpts or bonus content from their novels—that are searchable with more than 350 genre-specific keywords. This creates interest in their work, allows the reader to immediately get immersed in the story, and prevents their novel from getting lost. For our authors, Bites not only introduce them to new readers, they have also proven to be a powerful tool in exposing old and new readers alike to their entire catalog of books, not only new releases. And, Bites have no shelf life. If an author posts a Bite today and a reader searches for related keywords, that Bite will be served up for years to come. Bites posted over a year ago still sell books today.

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