Fed up with confusing and conflicting advice? Want to know what peer-reviewed research actually says? This FREE download is perfect for independent and self-published authors who want to sell more books.
The Research Foundation for Indie Book Marketing is an annotated bibliography of 27 studies and publications from 2022 to today.
Each entry has a plain-English summary and key findings, so you can preview the evidence without reading 27 papers.
Published between 2022 and today, you’ll get information about BookTok, Bookstagram, BookTube, TikTok Shop, influencer marketing, and indie author economics.
Including 932 ebooks tracked weekly on the Amazon Kindle bestseller lists and 50,000+ benchmark titles.
Every key finding is drawn from primary research: meta-analyses, field experiments, longitudinal studies, and interviews with real authors.
What the research actually says about BookTok, Bookstagram, BookTube, TikTok Shop, and social media influencer effectiveness.
You feel buried in conflicting tips from TikTok, Reddit, forums, and online gurus.
You’re launching a book — whether it’s your first or your tenth.
If you’re paying anyone for book marketing, this is the research base your strategy should be built on.
Indie authors are drowning in conflicting advice. Nobody offers a coherent roadmap backed by data.
So I did the research to answer those questions. This bibliography is the foundation behind my work, drawn from studies covering ~3,800 indie authors and 51,000+ titles. Every source links to a DOI or institutional repository, so you can verify everything yourself.