Reddit rules index · read 2026-10-04
Can you promote on r/BookPromotion?
Self-promotion restricted Its rules restrict self-promotion. Posts that promote your own work are likely to be removed.
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A place for authors, old and new, to learn and share what they know about book promotion and marketing. This is also a safe place to post your book promotions in moderation.
What its rules say about promotion
Service promotion
Services are not to be promoted on this subreddit. This subreddit is strictly for promoting your written works. Editing or any other type of promoting is not allowed on here.
Hate
You have posted hurtful or hateful comments on another promoters work. This is not allowed in this subreddit, if you don't like their work or what they are writing about simply don't read their work. There is no reason to be mean.
What its rules say about AI and bots
AI accuser
Accusing people of using AI or calling someone's work AI slop.
All 5 rules of r/BookPromotion
- Once a week ban
You have posted more than once a week on this subreddit. Which is a violation of rule 1. - Service promotion
Services are not to be promoted on this subreddit. This subreddit is strictly for promoting your written works. Editing or any other type of promoting is not allowed on here. - Hate
You have posted hurtful or hateful comments on another promoters work. This is not allowed in this subreddit, if you don't like their work or what they are writing about simply don't read their work. There is no reason to be mean. - comment spam
Posting on someone else's post in the comments with your own work will lead to you being banned. Have some respect for the poster. - AI accuser
Accusing people of using AI or calling someone's work AI slop.
What the written rules don't show
- Unpublished minimums. Many communities remove posts from new or low-karma accounts through AutoModerator settings that are not on the rules page, often before a moderator sees them.
- Reddit's own filters. Reddit's site-wide spam filters can remove posts from accounts that mostly share links to their own site, in any community.
- The community's norms. Many communities see themselves as peers, not an audience: post where you already take part, and make the post worth reading without the link.
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