Re: Sell your books on your website?

**J* L* <h*@yahoo.com>**

Thanks, Amy, that was very helpful. And to Doug, another thank you for a huge belly laugh!

Judy

--- On Wed, 2/25/09, gardenwriters-request@lists.ibiblio.org <gardenwriters-request@lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:33:44 -0800
From: "Amy Stewart" <amy@amystewart.com>
Subject: Re: [GWL] Sell your books on your website?

I recently created a page on my website allowing people to buy signed copies
directly from me (actually, they buy from the bookstore my husband and I
own, but I could have done this on my own, too)

The page is here:   http://www.amystewart.com/order.html  and the Add to
Cart buttons are very easy to get from your PayPal merchant account. (and it
is very easy to create a PayPal merchant account that allows people to pay
by PayPal or credit card).  I was able to create this whole thing in a few
hours with my very minimal HTML knowledge--PayPal gives you the HTML code
for the buttons, so all I had to do was make a page with images of my books
and text.  I've already had a few orders.

And I do an affiliate link, but not to Amazon.  I really try to support
independent bookstores instead of Amazon--without independent,
brick-and-mortar bookstores handselling our books, many of us would get lost
in the shuffle. I certainly owe what little success I've had to independent
bookstores who got behind me and personally put my books in the hands of
readers. Also, thousands of independent bookstores making thousands of
individual decisions about what books to order for their store is better for
those of us with 'niche' books that might not appeal to that one buyer
at a
large corporate bookstore.

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