Crowdfunding a book just got a whole lot easier.
We’re thrilled to announce our new integration with BookFunnel, the go-to platform for indie authors and publishers to distribute ebooks and audiobooks directly to their readers.
Now, when you launch a book campaign on BackerKit, you can automatically deliver digital rewards to backers right at the moment they pledge, reserve, or follow your campaign. Readers who unlock digital rewards are immediately shown a unique link to their BookFunnel library where they can access their digital rewards instantly.
For readers and backers: This means no waiting until the campaign ends to receive digital rewards and even more reason to back your campaign on day one.
For creators: This offers more pledge incentives to build early campaign momentum, along with a hassle-free, automated process that solves digital rewards fulfillment – for good.
No CSVs. No manual emails. No delays . Just an easy, seamless experience for you and your readers.
Book lovers, especially if they’re your fans, want access to your latest work. And they want it now.
Give them exactly what they want: digital content delivered as Instant Access Rewards effortlessly fulfilled through our BookFunnel integration.
Offering digital rewards that can be enjoyed immediately can serve as a powerful pledge incentive, helping drive pre-launch and launch day conversions and early momentum that carries throughout the campaign – all while solving the need to manage and distribute digital rewards.
See it in action: The Bluebeard Chronicles by Bonkers Romance
Best-selling authors and pro crowdfunding creators of Bonkers Romance – with over 2M copies sold, over $2.6M crowdfunded – are the first to use BackerKit’s new BookFunnel integration in their latest campaign: The Bluebeard Chronicles has already raised $525K and is poised to be their highest-funded campaign ever.
In this campaign, Bonkers Romance authors Katee Robert and Jenny Norbak bring together four other beloved romance writers, each delivering their “dark and delicious renditions of the Bluebeard fairy tale.”
Through this integration, readers who back the project get an Instant Access Reward: Early Release of A Monstrous Need – one of the six books included in The Bluebeard Chronicles.
On our recent webinar, Katee Robert and Jenny Norbak shared why this integration is such a game changer:
[1-min. clip] Finally – a seamless experience for authors and readers >>
Katee: We decided to spotlight one of the books being offered, by allowing it to be an instant access e-book. So as soon as they back the project, they get access to this. And It’s integrated with BookFunnel, so they just send them a link automatically. We don’t have to touch anything. Nobody’s had any problems – not a single question.
[1-min. clip] Why this is a game-changer >>
Jenny: This collaboration is huge. We’ve been begging for this to be seamless for years – and you all made it happen.
We can’t emphasize how game-changing this is for authors. It’s really big – and it will really impact the reader experience.
Katee: Especially when you’re delivering multiple books. You just have to click a button. Before the integration, the best way to deliver e-books was through print codes, but that’s still putting codes for each of the six books. So to be able to have six books just linked automatically with an integration is, as Jenny said, a game changer.
[1-min. clip] A proof of concept for your book, brand, and future crowdfunding projects >>
Katee: And it’s also showing proof of concept so that when we do deliver the rest of the e-book, they already know it’s gonna feel good and be seamless because they’ve already experienced it in the backing process.
Jenny: In so many ways, that’s what we’re up against, the experience of going to Amazon and clicking an e-book, and one click, it’s on their e-reader. And we have a different experience, and we’re always going to, and one that is more fun – but the less friction there is when they actually try to get their books, the more they are likely to come back and be crowdfunding again in the future.
So we really appreciate the ways that BackerKit continues to listen to us – that’s just a big thing – and helps us to make that reader experience better.
Related: Why did Bonkers Romance move over to BackerKit? Hear straight from Katee Robert and Jenny Norbak (1-minute clips).
How It Works
For backers, discovering and receiving instant digital rewards is intuitive and easy.
- Digital rewards are clearly marked “Instant Access” in the reward tier
- Links to access digital rewards are provided as soon as backers complete their pledge, follow, or reservation
- With a single click, they’re taken to their BookFunnel library where they can start reading or listening right away
*Note: Backers will need to setup a BookFunnel account to access their library
For authors and publishers, setup is simple.
How to set up:
- Contact BookFunnel support to request your BookFunnel API key
- Connect your BookFunnel account using your BookFunnel API key
- Select the digital reward to include in your pledge levels
- Enter the corresponding Book UID for each reward in your pledge level
- Add an optional title and instructions for your backers
Use the BookFunnel Integration Today
Upgrade to the new standard.
After you create an active crowdfunding campaign on BackerKit, you’ll need a BookFunnel account on their Best Seller or Publisher plan plus your BookFunnel API key. From there, setup takes just a few minutes in your project’s Integrations tab.
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