Book Marketer - Book Promotion And Selling Website

We teamed up with a forward-thinking publishing company in the UK to transform how authors market their books. Together, we created a book promotion website that tackles the problem of extensive website development by providing authors with personalised websites, subdomains, and easy subscription plans. This also gives authors a unique and standout online presence.

Challenge:

The client sought a team to help develop a book promotion site, particularly for the authors. The cost of website development and maintenance is too high nowadays. The client wanted to help the authors by providing a simple book marketplace platform for users to purchase a subscription plan and get a ready-made website with a subdomain with the author's name. This reduces the author's overall cost and helps them maintain their online presence.

• Our team's greatest challenge was updating the author’s subdomain website. Our team must publish the website whenever the author updates Books, Events, Newsletters, Website Layout, etc.
  • Use an observer to update the status of the need to update, publish, and implement a scheduler for website HTML (Content, Layouts – Fonts, and Website’s Color) update and create a new folder. This new folder will replace an old folder of the author’s website.

Solutions:

By giving importance to the client’s requirements, our team of dedicated developers helped them develop a book-selling website that exactly met them. This book marketing site for authors where they can purchase a plan and have a subdomain with the user’s name. A book marketing website where authors can add all the details about their books, book events, etc.

Key Features:

• Stripe Payment Gateway Integration: Stripe payment gateway is integrated for quick and hassle-free payments. That allows the authors to quickly make payments for their chosen subscription plan.
• Author’s customized website: Upon purchasing any of the plans the author will have a book marketing website with a subdomain having the author’s name. The author can access to modify them as per their need like changing colors, fonts, layouts, etc.
• Author’s Admin Module: Every registered author will have a separate admin panel from which the user can add the books and manage events and other CMS pages.
• Author’s customized website: Upon purchasing any plans, the author will have a website with a subdomain with the author’s name. The author can access to modify them as per their need, like changing colors, fonts, layouts, etc.
• Author’s Admin Module: Every registered author will have a separate admin panel from which the user can add the books and manage events and other CMS pages.
•  Courses: The admin has also created courses for the authors that help them learn more about writing books.
•  Automatic Plan Renewal: The free book promotion site automatically renews the subscription plan until and unless the user disables the subscription.
• Admin Dashboard: From the admin dashboard, the admin can view all the statistics, such as The number of subscribed users, total earned amount, etc. Admin also has rights to access the author’s admin. 
• Gift Voucher: The users can also purchase a plan and gift it to their loved ones.
• Insights: Authors can get to know the marketing insights like the number of newsletters subscriptions, click events, etc.

Results:

Book Marketer is a powerful book marketplace solution for authors designed to change the way authors market and promote their books with existing high costs associated with website development and website maintenance. The Book marketer helped the authors increase their sales. This powerful book selling website also empowers authors with customizable websites and subdomains that help them create a unique online presence.

Technologies and Tools

• Technology: PHP
• Frontend: Vue Js
• Backend: Laravel
• Database: MySQL
• Other Technology: Strip Payment gateway