Hi, I am Amy Brown. I own a company called BookPrint where I work closely with authors and independent publishers everyday. It is exhilarating helping authors see their dreams manifest as a physical book – but, depressing watching them struggle to sell their books online. Often they’ve built a website on a free platform that is ugly and doesn’t communicate the quality of their books, let alone result in google rankings, sales or media exposure.
That is problem 1
Free sites are ugly, and beautiful ecommerce sites are expensive.
Then if you are getting sales – congratulations! You won, a trip down to the post office. If you happen to be celebrating success in Fiji, eesh… hopefully your buyers don’t mind a two week wait.
That is problem 2
You don’t want to waste your time, packing and posting books.
AuthorSites solves both those problems for some people. It is built at a service level to cater for authors who are selling or aiming to sell 30 or more books per month.
The ugly and expensive problem 1 is solved by purchasing a $1,490 website from us. It is built and hosted in our online ecosystem. This means we can create and launch your website within four working days! Guaranteed – or it is free.
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Wait. A full ecommerce website for $1,490 don’t these normally cost $3,500 or more?
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Yes. Our websites are built on a template that we created for authors, this means it includes everything you need. Contact Page, Media Kit Page, Blog, ecommerce with 1-click checkouts, Homepages. It is a full WordPress website, using woo-commerce for the store, and Stripe for payment processing. This is a best in class solution. It is how Timmy (founder of BookPrint and AuthorSites) wanted to build his website, in fact his website is built exactly the same way.
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Well, whaddya know. The painful posting problem is also solved by paying us money 😉 To enrol in our ‘handsfree’ programme and host your website there is a monthly cost of $40.
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Hmm, what do I get for $40 a month?
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Everything. Well not everything. But everything, you need to sell books. We will store 1/2 a pallet of books. Whenever you get an order we will process the payment, pack your book in a cardboard book mailer, label it, courier it, then deposit your money directly into your bank account!
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Is AuthorSites for you?
- Would you like to have a beautiful website representing you, your name and your book?
- Are you planning on selling more than 30 books per month ($900 worth of books)?
- Would you like a modern WordPress website, with updates, server performance and everything technical taken care of?
- Is it your dream to be able to write, and promote and never have to pack a book and send it?
If so. You and I. We need to chat.
Send me a message right now and lets get your domain name purchased:
If you didn’t answer yes to everyone of those questions, you are probably not quite ready for AuthorSites. Why not download our 12-step guide to getting your first book selling.