BookBub Partners on the BookBird Author Score
Author Score · ARC reviews & reader building · #9 of 9 ·
Best for: Authors with discounted or free ebooks ready to apply for curated features
Author jobs, from BookBub Partners’s own pages
- Not stated: Sends advance copies to reviewers (not stated)
- Not stated: Delivers a free book for email sign-ups (not stated)
- Not stated: Connects to your email provider (not stated)
- Not stated: Reviewers are screened (not stated)
- Not stated: Protects the files (not stated)
- Not stated: Group promotions (not stated)
- Yes: Clear price per book or plan
BookBub Partners pricing
Several ways to pay. There is a free plan. The plans as BookBub Partners’s own site listed them on October 7, 2026, in US dollars:
- Featured Deal: price in USD not confirmed
- Free Reads: price in USD not confirmed
- New in Kindle Unlimited: price in USD not confirmed
- New Releases For Less: price in USD not confirmed
- BookBub Ads: price in USD not confirmed
- Preorder Alert: $0.02 one-time (per subscribed follower; authors with over 1,000 followers)
- Author Profile, New Release Alerts, Recommendations: Free
- Chirp Audiobook Deal: Free (no upfront cost; extra 10% royalty fee during the discount)
Featured Deal price tables live on bookbub.com/partners/pricing, which returned a Cloudflare challenge; amounts not recorded.
What BookBub Partners offers
From BookBub Partners’s own pages, checked on October 7, 2026:
- Editor-curated Featured Deal emails for discounted and free ebooks (US, UK, CA, AU)
- Free Reads emails to readers who want free books
- New in Kindle Unlimited and New Releases For Less features
- Self-serve auction ads to BookBub and Chirp members
- Preorder Alerts to an author's followers
- Automatic New Release Alerts to followers at no cost
- Free claimed Author Profile with identity check
- Chirp audiobook deals
Runs on: web.
Who BookBub Partners suits, and what its pages do not say
Best for: Authors with discounted or free ebooks ready to apply for curated features.
Not confirmed on BookBub Partners’s pages when we checked: sends advance copies to reviewers, delivers a free book for email sign-ups, connects to your email provider, reviewers are screened, protects the files and group promotions. That is what the vendor states, not a test; a feature can exist without being described, and the score only credits what is.
About 720 people a month search Google in the US for “bookbub partners”, down 23% over the past year (Google Ads data via DataForSEO).
BookBub Partners alternatives
| Software | Score | Price from | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| StoryOrigin | 8.4 | Free plan; paid from $50 a year | Authors building a mailing list and review team on a small budget |
| BookSirens | 8.0 | Free plan; paid from $10 one-time | Authors who want pay-per-reader ARC promotion or free private ARC delivery |
| Prolific Works | 7.8 | Free plan; paid from $20 a month | Authors growing a mailing list through free and group giveaways |
| Booksprout | 7.1 | Free plan; paid from $9 a month | Authors running regular ARC campaigns who want reminders and reviewer tracking |
| BookFunnel | 6.6 | $30 a year | Indie authors delivering reader magnets, review copies and direct-sale ebooks |
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BookBub Partners questions
How much does BookBub Partners cost?
Free plan. BookBub Partners lists 8 plans; the full list is under Pricing above.
What does BookBub Partners run on?
web, according to its own site.
How the score is computed: the formula, step by step. Prices and features were read from BookBub Partners’s own site on October 7, 2026; nobody pays to be listed.