Author Features and Benefits
Below is an overview of what Indie Aisle has to offer. Of course your own experience is the best way to find out if it works for you, so why not sign up for a free account.
A home for your stories
Indie Aisle provides a clean, professional setup for your self-published stories that makes it easy for readers to find what they are looking for and buy. You have total flexibility over how you want to present your story, and we help make it easy to publish it in the right digital formats.
Retain all rights to your story
Publishing on Indie Aisle is simply a way to give access to your story to readers. It's complete self-publishing, we believe that it's your story, so you should have total control over it. In fact, we encourage submitting your story in other venues to get it out to as many potential readers as possible.
Readers can easily buy and get access to your ebook
We make the purchasing process very simple and give readers options to either download files for their reading devices or to read online across their web-connected devices.
Your profile with a personalized URL
Indie Aisle creates a profile page that shows all your stories along with your updates. And you can easily send your readers to it at indieaisle.com/ followed by your username.
Ready to go viral
Social features are available for readers to easily share your story with their friends. Either via a tweet, a Facebook update or by posting a link on their own site.
Search engine optimized
All pages are also optimized for search engines to easily find and rank. The more thorough you are with filling out information about your story, the better the process works.
Keep fans updated
Post updates regularly that readers can follow. Go even further by connecting your Twitter and Facebook accounts to Indie Aisle. You can even post updates across your social networks from one place.
Not tied to specific reading devices or apps
Because Indie Aisle allows anyone to read online in their web browser, readers aren't required to have any specific e-reading devices or download any special apps that they have to transfer their files into. They can read on all browser-based devices including tablets like the iPad and Galaxy Tab and smartphones like the iPhone and Android phones. This gives you the flexibility to offer your story to more people.
Set your own price
As you have complete control over your self-published story, you are also able to set the price you think makes the most sense to you.
Real-time stats
Once your story is up, you can keep up with stats and see how readers are interacting with it. This includes sales and traffic info.
Sell your ebooks on your own website
You can embed a widget for your e-book for readers to sample and buy on your personal website or anywhere else on the web.
That about sums things up. However, Indie Aisle is still young and we've got plans for plenty more features on the horizon. All that's left to do now is...