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Lanternbee Books
What Lanternbee Books is, which of your books it shows, how to hide your store or one book, and where to see any visitors it sends you.
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Lanternbee Books, at books.lanternbee.com, is our new reader site. Your published books are listed there on every plan, the Free plan too, and you can switch it off. Readers can browse by genre, see new releases and pre-orders, search for a title or an author, and buy straight from you.
It is new, so we can’t promise it will bring you readers or sales yet. Keep telling readers about your own store too.
What readers see
Each of your books gets its own page with the cover, the description, the formats you sell and their prices in your store’s currency. Readers also see your author page with all your books, and a page for each series in reading order. Search engines can find these pages too.
The big Buy from the author button takes the reader to the same book in your own store, at your own address. You make the sale, the reader’s email joins your reader list, and the book reaches them the way it always does.
Which books are shown
A book appears when it is live in your store: published, with at least one format ready to sell. Drafts, archived books and books that are not ready yet never appear. Pre-orders appear with their release date.
Genres come from the genres you type on each book. We match them to our list of 25 genres, so “Epic fantasy” shows under Fantasy and “Fantasy romance” under Romantasy. A genre we don’t recognize is simply left out.
Hide your whole store
Your books are shown by default. To stop that:
- Go to Store settings → Selling.
- Untick Show my books on Lanternbee Books.
- Choose Save changes.
Your books disappear from Lanternbee Books straight away. Your own store doesn’t change. Tick it again whenever you like. While it’s on, the same tab has a link to your author page there.
Hide one book
Open the book, tick Hide this book from Lanternbee Books and choose Save. The book stays on sale in your own store.
See the visitors it sends you
Go to Analytics. Under Where readers come from you’ll see “Lanternbee Books sent you 42 visitors in this period”, and Lanternbee Books has its own row with the orders those readers placed.