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WHAT: Author Masterminds is an easy online book platform providing you innovative tools for book marketing, publicity, and sales.
WHY: Get all the tools you need to make your book a success on this website. Our individual features each offer superior results, from samples that get more views, to easier and more effective promotions, through converting sales that place more money directly into YOUR pocket. Put them together, and Author Masterminds makes it easy for you take control of your content and do the things you need to do.
HOW: All you need is a subscription and an ePub file. Set up your account, customize your Author Masterminds Bookshelf, and start using the tools for book marketing, publicity, and sales. You collect sales proceeds, minus our payment processor's fees of 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction (Author Masterminds takes absolutely NO sales commissions), and Author Masterminds handles everything else, including all customer service and technical support for your customers. About the only thing we don't do is ship the book for print orders. In that case, you'll receive the shipping information, an added few bucks for your trouble, and we'll direct any customer inquiries back to you.
Get unlimited access to all available Flexpub.com features on a monthly or annual plan. Our Author plans allow you to upload up to 10 ePub files, while our Publisher plans allow you to upload up to 100 ePub files. For those with more than 100 books, learn more about our Custom Installations HERE.
Monthly | Annual | |
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Author | $9.00 | $90.00 |
Publisher | $49.00 | $490.00 |
Our platform maintains the highest security standards and does not process payments or store any credit card information. This lets you sleep at night, knowing you (and your customers') financial data is secure. Flexpub takes absolutely NO sales commission, but our payment processors will deduct 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction, with the rest deposited straight into your account.
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Flexpub was built to empower content owners with innovative tools for book marketing, publicity, and sales.
Technically speaking, Flexpub is a web app, built specifically for book content management and distribution under a variety of models. Our specialization in complex book content, and breadth of available features, is what makes us different. If you want to take charge of your marketing, publicity, and sales efforts, we have the most options covering all the essentials, and include the only full account-management platform for both you and your readers.
Simply put, this means that under the hood you will have the most robust, feature-rich platform available, all accessed by you and your readers through an easy, user-friendly website, Flexpub.com.
There's a reason Amazon pushes Look Inside sampling — over two-thirds of visitors to book purchase pages click to see preview content. With Flexpub, you can now control links, length, and related titles while sharing white-labelled previews, keeping readers' attention on your content and brand, and only your content and brand.
"Flexpub is a great tool we use to market our books. The ease of use (for both us and for customers) is a real benefit, and working with the Flexpub team has been a pleasure."
Dino Battista
Assistant Director
The University of North Carolina Press
We built Author Masterminds to highlight your books on the the World Wide Web — the most proven and popular content engine. Our platform makes it easy for you to share white-labelled Look Inside book samples with simple links. Even more, your readers can open previews instantly on any phone, tablet, or desktop computer without special software or downloads, ensuring more views and a higher engagement rate.
Focus your marketing efforts by tracking results on an easy-to-read hit chart and global map. Know what social media campaigns are working best, which emails are leading to more views, and what samples are garnering the most attention. You'll not only see immediate results, but make smarter marketing decisions moving forward.
Author Masterminds provides two easy ways to take care of advanced review copies. Copy-and-paste the "Full Book Link" to provide instant access to a complete online copy of any book in your Author Masterminds library, or use a "Free Book Link" that requires registration and provides you valuable user data.
Giving away free books has been proven to pay by building a registered user list of interested readers for remarketing purposes. Flexpub offers a variety of options, including the "turn on/turn off" Promo page designed for larger-scale give-aways, where anyone with the link can get a free copy and end up on your own waiting-to-hear-from-you, opt-in user list.
https://authormasterminds.com/promo/rXAky
Turn on larger-scale promotions by using the Promo Page Link.
Take a page out of the Amazon playbook to build relationships and convert those registered users into long-term customers. Every customer who fulfills a free or paid order ends up on your own opt-in, ready-to-hear-from-you user list. Review daily orders, operate in-the-know with charts that track momentum, and target-market with purchase history and user data.
TOP USERS
Name | Orders | |
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User One | userone@email.com | 11 |
User Two | usertwo@email.com | 10 |
User Three | userthree@email.com | 8 |
User Four | userfour@email.com | 7 |
TOP BOOKS
Name | Orders |
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Book One | 212 |
Book Two | 184 |
Book Three | 165 |
Book Four | 112 |
Your Flexpub Bookshelf comes complete with previews for all of your books and is an exclusive showcase of just your content, easily customized exactly the way you want it to be customized. Want to turn your Flexpub Bookshelf into a Storefront? Simply add a payment processing account for the instant deposit of all sales proceeds, fill in prices, and you’ve added a powerful direct-to-reader sales option.
With our easy link-based system and simple copy-and-paste code snippets, you can add Look Inside, Buy, and Get Free Book! buttons, along with our Bookshelf Embed Widget, to any website. Optimized to work and look great on any website, The Bookshelf Embed Widget places your complete Flexpub collection of titles on a searchable, scrolling shelf.
Integrate your entire Flexpub bookshelf, and all enabled features, on any website with the Bookshelf Embed Widget.
When we say Author Masterminds puts more money in your pocket, we mean it. Simply create a payment processing account directly through our app and you'll have sales proceeds deposited directly into your account at the time of sale .
Want a simple way to add direct-to-reader sales straight to any website? Use our copy-and-paste code snippets to add Look Inside and buy buttons to any website, or integrate all features in a snap with our Bookshelf Embed Widget.
Use your Flexpub.com Author Shelf, a portfolio page on this website designed to exclusively highlight you and your work, or integrate features on any website with our copy-and-paste Bookshelf Embed Widget.
Author Masterminds pricing is based on a per-book licensing model. All of our clients receive full-service attention, including initial and ongoing content and metadata import. All advertised features, as well as hosting, maintenance, and support, are guaranteed. Additional costs include a $999.95 custom setup fee, as well as 10%-of-sales when using any of our eCommerce solutions.
Books | Per Month | Per Year |
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Up to 100 Books | $79.95/month | $799.95/year |
Up to 250 Books | $149.95/month | $1,499.95/year |
Up to 500 Books | $249.95/month | $2,499.95/year |
Up to 1,000 Books | $349.95/month | $3,499.95/year |
Over 1,000 Books | Pricing Upon Request | Pricing Upon Request |
The World’s Best-Selling Books for Independent Filmmakers
Author Masterminds technology allows Michel Wiese Productions to easily handle bulk fulfillment and run promotions.
The world's largest seller of Genealogy books
Author Masterminds technology allows Genealogical.com to market and sell both print and digital books for a library of 2,500 titles.
Author Masterminds technology helped UNC Press to easily and quickly integrate 2,500 Look Inside samples on the uncpress.org website.
The World’s Best-Selling Books for Independent Filmmakers
Author Masterminds technology allows Michel Wiese Productions to easily handle bulk fulfillment and run promotions.