Connections. February 2022
We’re back!
It’s good to be back isn’t it? Well, we’re glad to be busy anyway. And it is really busy. Publishing is supposed to be at its busiest in December isn’t it? That’s what I was told anyway.
With the new year comes a new design for our newsletter. We’re ready to hit you with all the latest features, news, updates and marketing tips each month, to help you make the most of Glassboxx.
Thanks,
1. We’re going to the Book Fair
Let’s start with the headline. Finally, one of the biggest events in publishing is back. Properly. That’s right, we’re on about London Book Fair 2022. Better still, we’re going to be there! We’d love to arrange meetings with you all to talk about Glassboxx and how we can help you change the game with your digital titles. If you’re going to be there too, come and visit our stand. Book a chat with us below and find a slot that works for you.
2. New sign ups
Secondly, we’ve been joined by swathes of quality publishers in the last few months. We’ve sailed past 100 publisher sign-ups, with titles selling into over 100 countries. We can share the details of some of these very soon.
3. Glassboxx Onboarding and Marketing
We’ve also set up an active onboarding and marketing team to support you through sign up, onboarding and beyond. Our marketing team is armed with tips to help you get the most out of our features in the Glassboxx Portal, and we can support your social media action in various ways.
Glassboxx just gets better and better. Here’s the latest app update and all the bits you need to know about…
PDF Compatibility
For many publishers, this feature update has been a big one. PDF compatibility is now available. This means you can now upload PDFs along with ePUBs for your eBooks. You simply upload the books with our uploaders in the Glassboxx Portal and select PDF as the eBook file type. Then, you’re away. Easy as that.
Marketing Highlights
King Kong Theory, Virginie Despentes – Fitzcarraldo Editions.
When you’ve got an audiobook as good as this, it’s good to beat your chest about it. We worked with Fitzcarraldo’s marketing team to create an audio preview tweet for Fitzcarraldo to send out on social channels. With over 4000 views in just a day, the twitter activity generated a lot of buzz.
It just goes to show how powerful it is to fit your marketing content to the product – when you’re talking about audio, do it with audio! Plus, it helps when the book is great.
Subscriptions with Trigger Hub
Subscriptions are all the range right now, and if packaging your content makes sense for your books, we’re ready to set it up with you. Trigger Hub, well-being publisher-turned-retailer, came to us with one such idea.
Trigger set up a range of packages made up of selected titles, available to readers on a monthly payment basis. Readers are billed each month and have access to the titles until they cancel. Trigger also put together some exemplary web pages for the packages. Contact us if you want to talk subscriptions.
Work with us to create audio previews. We can make it work for you. We’ll take the audio file, the timecode for the sample you want, and create a graphic to go in the video. Just get in touch and we’ll talk.
Your books, our pleasure. That’s a belief which is core to our social media and marketing activity. We want to put you front and centre, help bring you closer to readers, and make publishing fairer. We’ll share tips and tricks from publishers selling with Glassboxx, and how you can make the most of our features.
Chelsea Green Publishing have launched with us in January, kicking off the year with a stunning 50% off their range of Audiobooks from their website. A bold way to draw attention to their catalogue.
Draw attention to your digital titles with a special offer like this. Contact us if you need any guidance setting up vouchers on your account.
We commit to sharing everything with you. Every hiccup, every fix, every patch. Last month, these are the most common issues we faced. View the full report below.
Highlights from the month include a drastically lower response time, dealing with an increased number orders. Our customer service team also garnered a 100% happiness rating from users after resolving issues. We’re committed to keeping every reader and listener happy.
