Websites for bookstores.
Someone deciding whether to drive over wants to know what's happening this week, not just that you sell books.
today, first month free, then $99/mo for 3 months ($149/mo after)
Print Block, one of our 30 designs.
A riso-print halftone layout in navy, pink, and green, built to carry a distinct maker-shop identity. A house-built design template — not a client's site.
Print Block
Bookstore / Press
This isn't a generic template with your name swapped in.
An independent bookstore is competing directly against same-day shipping, which means the website's job isn't to look like a catalog — it's to answer why walking in beats ordering online. Staff picks, a specific curatorial voice, and local zines or small-press titles nobody else stocks are the actual differentiators, and they need real room on the homepage instead of being squeezed into a footer line below a generic 'shop now' button that just makes the store look like a smaller, slower Amazon.
The second job is staying current: an events calendar for readings, launches, and book clubs that's actually accurate, updated weekly rather than showing a stale flyer from two months ago. A store that can update its own events and staff picks by email, without touching code, keeps the site matching what's really happening in the shop — which matters more here than in almost any other retail category, because the whole pitch is 'come see what's new,' and a site that never changes undercuts that pitch on sight.
Built for how bookstores actually get hired.
Staff-picks section
Real room for a curatorial voice — the actual reason to walk in instead of ordering the same title online.
Events section, given real space
Readings, launches, and book clubs get their own place on the page instead of a footer line — email us an update and it's live the same day under your unlimited edits.
Local-press and zine shelf
A dedicated place for small-run titles a chain or an algorithm won't ever surface.
Distinct shop identity
A visual identity built to feel like a specific store, not a generic retail template with a different name.
Pick the design. We build the site.
Print Block — one of our 30 designs — is the demo we point bookstores to first: a riso-print, halftone-overlay layout in navy, pink, and green, built to carry a maker-shop identity instead of a generic retail look.
- Step 1
Pick your design
Choose the design shown on this page or any of the other 29. They're all the same price.
- Step 2
Send us your content
One worksheet: business name, services, hours, service area, and any photos you have. No photos yet is fine.
- Step 3
We build it
We put your content into the design, set up your domain, SSL, and hosting, and send you a preview link.
- Step 4
Live in 24 hours
Approve it and it goes live. On the subscription plan, edits after launch are unlimited.
First month free, then $99/mo for 3 months, then $149/mo. Cancel any time.
- Pick the design shown above, or any of our 30
- We swap in your content within 24 hours
- Hosting, SSL, backups, and unlimited edits included
- 30-day money-back guarantee
Questions bookstores actually ask.
- We also sell online and ship nationally, not just in-store — does this design still fit?
- Yes — we'd add a clear path to your online shop or a 'ship to me' note alongside the in-store staff picks and events, so both kinds of customer find what they need.
- Can we list weekly events like readings and book clubs ourselves?
- Email us the update — a new reading, a launch, a schedule change — and it's live the same day under unlimited edits. No login or CMS training required.
- Do we need a real-time inventory search so people can check if a title's in stock?
- The site isn't built as a full inventory system; a simple 'call or email to check stock' path covers that need without the cost and maintenance of a real-time search feature.
Your bookstore site can be live tomorrow.
$99 to start. We build it around the design shown above — or any of our 30. Live by tomorrow morning.