Executive Summary

Indie and small-press authors struggle to cost-effectively promote books: many of the roughly 3 million authors lack time, marketing expertise, and budget to run multi-channel campaigns that drive sustained discovery. As a result, authors either cobble together fragmented tools for about $400 ACV with little measurable ROI or depend on inconsistent organic channels. Build an AI-driven marketing workflow platform that automates copy and creative generation, schedules and optimizes campaigns across newsletters, short-form social, and targeted ads, and provides conversion-focused templates for launches and backlist reactivation. Combine LLM-generated blurbs and image assets with ad A/B testing, budget pacing, simple analytics, and human-in-the-loop controls so authors retain voice and quality. The market is attractive now: 3M potential users × $400 ACV equals a $1.2B addressable market, and tailwinds—rising self-publishing, publishable AI creative quality, and platformized discovery—raise demand for scalable automation. With a Market Score of 90/100 and Revenue Potential 82/100, there’s clear upside if you can prove sales lift and predictable ROI. You can differentiate by focusing on author workflows (book-launch templates, royalty-centric KPIs), offering results-oriented pricing and deep integrations with discovery channels, while being upfront about challenges like creative quality limits, platform ad policy risk, and the necessity of human oversight to preserve author voice.

Market Opportunity

Automate indie authors' book promotion with AI-driven marketing workflows targets a $1.2B = 3M self-published + small-press authors × $400 ACV (annual spend on marketing tools/services) total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 12% YoY — market for self-publishing services and digital book marketing is growing as self-publishing adoption and digital ad spend increase (industry reports: Statista/NPD estimates aggregated).

Key trends driving demand: Self-publishing growth — more authors are choosing indie routes, creating a larger addressable base for marketing tools.; AI-generated creative quality — LLMs and image models now produce publishable blurbs and ad creatives quickly, enabling low-cost scalable campaigns.; Platformized discovery — newsletters, social short-form, and algorithmic reader discovery are replacing singular discovery channels, increasing demand for multi-channel automation.; Subscriptionization of services — authors prefer predictable monthly pricing over one-off agency fees, enabling recurring revenue models..

Key competitors include BookBub, Reedsy, BookFunnel.

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Automate indie authors' book promotion with AI-driven marketing workflows

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