I’m supposed to be setting up a Facebook ad for my new release but I ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole with a site called aer.io.
Basically it’s a site associated with Ingram that lets you create a storefront to sell any print books that Ingram distributes.
You can create collections and offer your own discounts off of the list price. It’s a little clunky still (see the Stephen King book cover in the attached link which is not in English but fine when you click on the link) but definitely intriguing.
If you want to see one of my experiments, here’s what I did for a list of the books on my best writing advice books shelf. There were only two on that shelf I couldn’t find in their catalog:
https://shop.aer.io/WritingBooks
And here’s the link to the non-fiction store I’ve been working on for my books:
https://shop.aer.io/MLHumphrey
There are things I don’t love about it like the overlay on collection names. And it seems to like to overwrite the description for the page that you give when you go in to edit, but other than that…pretty cool.
Looks like anyone can set one up and you’re basically a little online bookstore.
M.L. Humphrey 