Search Engine Listing Services

• Overture - Preferred placement on web site search engines. www.overture.com

Web Site Designers

• Bond - Web site designers for Fortune 1000 companies. Clients include BN.com & People Magazine. www.bond.com
• Bookzone - An affordable turnkey web site design and promotion firm focused on the book publishing industry. www.bookzone.com
• ES11 - Designed online web store for SUNY Press. wwww.es11.com
• NetCentral - Designer of the Book-A-Million web site. www.netcentral.com
• WebStore - A UK based Ecommerce design firm. They built the Karnacbooks.com web site.  www.web-store.co.uk

Web Store Tools
 

• Miva Merchant - Turnkey software solution. www.miva.com
• StoreFront - Turnkey solution for FrontPage or Dreamweaver sites. www.storefront.net

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Observation:

You do not have to spend a lot of money for a good web site.

We have seen a publisher spend about $30K on a web site that was far better and launched faster than another publisher's site which cost $400K+ and took over 1 year to go live.

The key is to develop a site plan before approaching a design firm.

Furthermore, after launching a site you must market it. If no one can find it then it can not generate additional sales.

Your web site should serve as a resource for reviewers and resellers. Post a downloadable price list. Offer downloadable author bios, reviews, and author pictures for magazine articles.