You can offer users a discounted price on future titles when they subscribe to your series. When the next title goes live, they automatically purchase it at the discounted price.
Important:
- Some features may not be available in your country.
- Textbooks are not eligible for series subscriptions.
- Discounts are currently limited to publishers in the following countries:
- Australia
- Canada
- Japan
- New Zealand
- South Africa
- United Kingdom
- United States
- To create series subscription discounts, you must have over $10,000 in total series revenue over the last 3 years.
Series discount eligibility
For a series to be eligible for a subscription discount it must meet these criteria:
- The series must be live on Google Play.
- Books in the series must have complete metadata.
- Series without all editions or with books listed as "Needs Action" aren’t eligible.
- The average price of a title in a series must be less than $20 USD.
- The series must be current.
- The most recent book or edition for comics must have been published less than 2 years ago.
- Either the time since the latest release must not significantly exceed the time between other releases in the series or the series must have a pre-order available.
- The series must contain at least two books.
Create & manage series subscription discounts
Start a new series subscription discount- In the Partner Center, click Promotions.
- Click Select promo type
Series subscriptions.
- Enter the promotion details:
- The promotion name, shown only to you.
- The start date. You can set any date from today, to a year from today.
- An optional end date.
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To find an available series, in the “Book series” section, click the box for a dropdown menu.
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In the dropdown under “Eligible series,” select the series.
- You can select one or multiple series. If you select multiple series, the same discount percent applies to all selected series.
- To find more information about the series, click the right arrow
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- After you select a series, you can check:
- The number of books in the series
- The book type
- The language of the books
- Country availability
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If you don’t find your series, review the “Ineligible series” list.
- Books are eligible if they meet the series subscription discount eligibility criteria.
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To select the countries where you want to apply the series subscription offer, click the Countries down arrow.
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If you create a series subscription discount offer that includes multiple series, you can select any countries where one of the series is live for sale. However, the discount offer will only be available to users in countries where a series is live for sale.
- Example for an offer with multiple series.
- Series A country availability: US, UK, DE, and FR
- Series B country availability: DE, FR, and ES
- Countries selected for multi-series bundle: US, UK, DE, FR, and ES
- Offer visibility:
- DE and FR: Both series available
- US and UK: Only series A available
- ES: Only series B available
- If you select over 100 series, you can only select one country. If you select less than 100 series, you can select all eligible countries.
- To select the discount percentage that you want to apply to the subscription offer, in the “Discounts” section, click the down arrow.
Series subscriptions.
.- In the Partner Center, click Promotions.
- At the top, click the Series subscriptions tab.
- Select the subscription campaign that you want to review.
- Within the selected campaign, you can find:
- The discount percentage.
- A spreadsheet of the transactions in your campaign.
- In the Partner Center, click the Analytics & Reports tab.
- Click Transaction report.
To pause a campaign:
- In the Partner Center, click Promotions.
- At the top, click the Series subscriptions tab.
- Select the promotion you want to pause.
- Click Edit promotion
To resume a campaign:
- In the Partner Center, click Promotions.
- At the top, click the Series subscriptions tab.
- Select the promotion you want to resume.
- Click Edit promotion