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Our unique ability to stimulate consumer demand comes from highly profitable customer acquisition and access to limitless content.

How We Do It

Open Road finds the right people for the right books. Through our data-driven marketing, we deliver multi-year recurring revenue for publishers, authors, and estates.

By focusing on backlist titles, the Ignition program is able to stimulate consumer demand through owned channels and in-depth retailer strategy. This precision allows Open Road to generate an average of 100% uplift in revenue for our partners.

From metadata improvements to placements in media, we handle the entire marketing process. Every book has its reader. Open Road finds the paths to those readers and puts your backlist in front of the right purchaser.

Our key strategies:

  • Combining data-driven marketing with technology for support
  • Deep insights into consumer conversion and tracking
  • Automated and measurable campaign performance
  • Enhanced consumer discovery through content brands
  • Long-term, direct relationships with newsletter-based consumers

What We Do For You

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When your titles enter the Ignition program, we begin the work of finding the right readers for your titles. From updating metadata to increase discoverability to creating, automating, and measuring campaign performance, the Ignition program allows a focus on backlist titles that is unusual among publishers.

We’ll take the work off your hands—and your books will be delivered into the hands of voracious readers around the world.

90,000+ Books

Increase reader reviews by an
average of 96 per title

Improve ratings, bringing more than
half of titles to 4+ stars

Titles in Ignition receive
2+ marketing touches per month

Voracious Readers

90%+ of our 1st-party audience
reads more than 10 books a year

50% reads more than 30 books a year

70% read in multiple formats

47% buy books for themselves and
as gifts for others

Discovery

We begin with our 3M+ first-party audience

Via sequenced marketing on all platforms, we
raise the visibility of titles in all channels

Books achieve a new, sustained
level of discoverability

Readers discover great books;
Authors attract the right readers

Find out what we can do for your titles. Get in touch.