DISCOVERY by Jellybooks

Nothing gets a reader hooked on a book like a highly engaging book sample!

DISCOVERY is our cloud-hosted platform for book samples designed to help book publishers with book discoverability, sales, marketing, and engaging with a diverse retail ecosystem.

1. Stimulate reader interest with click & read book excerpts on your own website, email newsletters, blog, author pages, or social media posts
2. Convert browsers into buyers with our cloud-hosted book samples featured on the product pages for bookshops and retailers
3. Increase pre-orders, print and digital sales by accessible book samples in your marketing and publicity outreach

According to Nielsen, samples are one of the three major influencers - along with covers and book descriptions - based on which customers decide on whether to buy or read a book.

Most online book pages feature covers and book descriptions, but lack samples and excerpts. Jellybooks fills this gap with its online click & read book samples for publishers and retailers!

Our mobile-friendly, cloud-hosted, accessible book samples are suitable for all of your marketing and sales channels.

1. Sales: Ecommerce sites, product pages, and any website featuring books
2. Marketing: Email newsletters, and direct-to-consumer (D2C) messaging
3. Author support: Websites, blogs, and social media posts by authors
4. Publicity: samples with click-to-request-ARC button for emails sent to editors, reviewers and other influencers

DISCOVERY for Sales

Jellybooks distributes cloud-hosted peek-inside samples on behalf of more than 150 UK and Irish publishers to retailers and bookshops in the UK, Ireland and beyond This ensures improved discoverability and deeper customer engagement with your books via independent bookshops and retailers.

Our bookshop and retailer network includes:

England, Scotland and Wales

National chains: Blackwell’s,

Indie bookshops: Archway Bookshop, Bell Bookshop, Bert’s Books, Bookbugs & Dragontails, Bookhaus Bristol, Cambridge University Press Bookshop, Coles Books, Falmouth Bookseller, Gaelic Book Council, La Bibliotheka, Mostly Books, Next Page Books, Nickel Books, Padstow Bookseller, Rossiter Books, Siop Cwlwn, The Guardian Bookshop, Truman Books, The Good Book Club, The Little Bookshop, The Old Queeriosity Shop, and Woodbridge Books. Many more coming soon!

Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland

National chains: Dubray Books, (soon) Easons

indie bookshops: Woodbine Books, Bridge Street Books, O’Mahony's, Vibes & Scribes, BridgeBooks Dromore, and Books at One with more indie bookshops being added continuously.

Unless otherwise specified, samples are distributed from publication day onwards.

Testimonials from booksellers:

Kieron Smith - Digital Director, Blackwell's & Wordery, and Head of Online Operations, Waterstones, Foyles & Hatchards:

“Good bookselling sites should offer as rich an experience as possible, you would likely look at a book’s back cover and perhaps read the first page or so of a title you were interested in a bookshop – this isn’t any different. DISCOVERY helps increase sales as people are more confident that the book they’re buying meets their needs, but also reduces returns for the same reasons.

I’ve found that over the last 15 years or so that people are happier browsing online for books – that it’s not as purely search based as it was in the early days of the web. DISCOVERY is an opportunity to better present titles to be browsed – and samples are a crucial part of this.”

Frank O'Mahony, the current owner and managing director of O'Mahony's Booksellers:

“Our experience with book previews has been overwhelmingly positive. They have enhanced the online shopping experience by allowing customers to engage with a book before making a purchase. This feature has been easy to integrate into our existing systems and has proven to be an effective tool in increasing user engagement.”

DISCOVERY for Marketing

DISCOVERY book samples help publishers better engage with readers!

Publisher’s Website

With our WordPress and WordPress for Woocommerce plug-in we offer publishers an easy way to include excerpts and book samples on all their book pages.

Publishers looking for a more bespoke solution can use the Jellybooks API or work with one of our digital partners such as BookSwarm.

Book samples help create interest in a book and grow the audience.

Samples also help convert book browsers into book buyers for those publishers who run their own direct-to-consumer ecommerce sites.

We help publishers (and bookshops) comply with the European Accessibility Act (EAA) that comes into force in June 202 by making sure our samples comply with and exceed best practice for accessibility. The Jellybooks Cloud Reader natively supports not only blind readers but also for those with colour blindness, poor eyesight, dyslexia, autism and other forms of reading disability.

Email Newsletters

One of the best ways of generating sustained interest in pre-orders, new releases and back catalogue titles is through email newsletters. Blackwell’s uses samples in its Saturday email newsletters with great success and many publishers are adopting the practice and are witnessing increased email open rates and improved engagement.

Social Media

DISCOVERY samples – being delivered as simple URLs – can also be used across social media networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Blue Sky, Instagram, Pinterest, WhatsApp, Threads, and so on. The integrated Open Graph features ensure that a copy of the cover is automatically displayed when embedding a sample link in a social media post.

Advanced users also have the option to customise the Open Graph image with their own image assets for improved engagement and click-through.

Pricing

DISCOVERY BASIC

This is our free service tier for publishers wanting to try out DISCOVERY for the first time and those publishers with limited marketing and sales-support budgets.

Limitations:

1. a cumulative free viewing limit of 100 to 250 views per work (depending on category)
2. annual overview report sent out by Jellybooks
3. standard sample size of 10% (min/max rules apply)

BASIC Pricing:

The fee (exclusive of VAT) to increase the cumulative viewing limit for a specific title is £20 per work to add 1,000 views or £50 per work for unlimited views.

DISCOVERY PROFESSIONAL

This is our paid service tier for publishers serious about engaging readers, boosting sales, and supporting a diverse retail ecosystem.

Features:

1. no viewing limit for samples
2. API and WordPress plug-in support for automated sample integration into publisher’s websites
3. (by agreement) monthly summary reports on opens/views by channel

Model A – Pricing based on revenue (no title limit)

Fee Band	Publisher's Sales	Annual service fee (exclusive of VAT)
Band A	< £0.25 million	£290
Band B	£0.25 million – £0.5 million	£390
Band C	£0.5 million – £1 million	£590
Band D	£1 million – £3 million	£990
Band E	£3 million – £6 million	£1990
Band F	£6 million – £10 million	£3990

For publishers with £10 million or more in revenues, the fee is 0.04% of the publisher’s or division’s relevant book sales with the minimum fee being £4,000 per annum. Monthly payment plans and bespoke service solutions are also available on request. All prices are exclusive of VAT.

Model B - pricing (by title number, not revenue)

An annual fee of £950 + £1 per title (excl. VAT) billed in increments of one hundred

Examples:

• 1,865 titles = £2,850/year (£950 + 1,900 * £1)
• 3,134 titles = £4,150/year (£950 + 3,200 * £1)

Model C – bespoke for large publishers with complex needs and requirements

Please schedule a meeting to have a discussion regarding your needs and the bespoke pricing and support options Jellybooks can offer.

Asset Submission and Technical Details

Supported formats

• Re-flowable ePub for novels, poetry, short story collections, narrative non-fiction, chapter books, middle grade (MG) and young adult (YA) fiction and nonfiction.
• Fixed Layout (FXL) ePub for illustrated children’s books, highly illustrated non-fiction books, graphic novels, comics, manga, etc.
• MP3 for audiobooks

Asset submission:

• ePub files, cover images and ONIX meta-data can be sent via Faber factory, Ingram Coresource, Codemantra, Consonance, or Turnaround Services
• there is also an SFTP path available for those publishers who wish to manage the distribution themselves
• micro-publishers with a small number of titles can also use our web-based submission portal

Sample Access

• sample URLs can be retrieved manually via the Jellybooks partner portal,
• or automatically via our WordPress and WordPress for Woocommerce plug-ins,
• or via our API

Documentation on the API, including support for modal mode and embedded iframes, can be found here: https://www.jellybooks.com/about/apis/excerpts

Documentation on the WordPress plug-ins is available here: https://www.jellybooks.com/about/plugins/discovery_wordpress_plugin