But have you ever stopped to consider who benefits the most from all your hard work and effort?

When we sell on the major retailers, we have no idea who buys our books. The retailers keep the customers’ data and continue to sell those customers other authors’ books. By spending money on ads, we have driven those customers to the retailers.

What if you could keep most of that money for yourself? What if you could keep the customer data?

Now, instead of retailers benefiting from you, you can use retailers as a source for your direct sales.

Discover how to sell direct to your readers, deliver ebook and audio files with customer service automatically taken care of for you, offer physical books, and manage sales tax with automated processes - all without stocking inventory, needing a warehouse, using a fulfillment service, ordering any books, using credit lines, or ever visiting a post office. Learn how to set up all your print books on an on-demand book printer which will print a book and deliver it worldwide when your customer orders it with no effort or upfront payment from you - it's simply a one-time upload of your cover and interior file.

This means you can have all your series available in paperback, hardback, even large print and spiral bound, with the cost taken from the customer's payment.

Shopify has done all the hard work and has prebuilt a storefront. Learn how to customise this step by step to make your store look however you like, anywhere from a basic store to looking like a professionally designed author website.

If you can upload a file, you have the required tech skills to run a book business on Shopify!