Indie Publishers and Self-Published Authors

BDS has great offerings for indie publishers and self-published authors

Today, in an industry increasingly reliant on digitised platforms and media, the partnership of book metadata and web services means that BDS is ideally positioned help you grow.

Our web magicians have developed all the software solutions, widgets and apps you’ll need as an indie publisher or self-published author.

Websites for indie publishers

Our websites are designed to help indie publishers focus on managing, highlighting and growing their catalogues and maximising their market reach. BDS works with publishers of all sizes and specialisms.

You get

  • A beautiful website
  • A great search facility for your publications
  • Streamlined titles management from pre-pub to order fulfilment
  • Ecommerce from bookstore to bank
  • A range of distribution options
  • Social, blog and mailshot built-in
  • Author biogs, pages, vids and shorts
  • Titles catalogued to all current standards for max discoverability

A website by BDS works hard behind the scenes to make the publishing, distribution and sales process easy.

We’ll create full metadata. We include your extended content such as cover images, author biogs, tables of contents, hyperlinks. We manage ONIX feeds for your titles. And we’ll help market and sell your titles to booksellers, browsers and libraries worldwide.

We back everything up with friendly and fast support, offering personalised solutions. No “off-the-peg” answers or long-winded, automated processes that lead down blind alleys.

And what about the cost?

Not the Earth. We do our pricing by reference to the number of titles, so you’ll never pay over the odds when working with us.

So, contact us now to find out more about a website built for your publishing house by the experts, BDS.

Websites for self-published authors

OK. You’ve written your masterpiece. It sits in front of you, hot off the printing press. What now? You want readers.

You’ve given away some free copies. Your aunt. Your hairdresser. The kids got a copy and left it on the table. But how do reach people you don’t know? You want perfect strangers to buy your book, heap praise upon it, recommend it to books clubs, stock it in your library, review it, get it made into a film. You want a best-seller!

Writing your book and getting it printed was only half the story. You need to become an expert in marketing. And metadata. You need to learn about standards, classification, ISNI, MARC records, Thema, extended content, ONIX feeds, sales and order fulfilment, legal deposit… It’s enough to give you a headache!

And what you really want to do is write. You are a writer, after all.

Why Choose BDS?

  • You get a professional website that looks great
  • We understand publishing from author to reader
  • We generate the metadata you need
  • We offer industry-leading solutions at affordable prices
  • Automated shop, revenue & currency handling
  • Blog, social and mailshot integration
  • Excellent, fast and friendly support

We have 30 years’ experience creating metadata for the book trade. And we specialise in building awesome websites for authors. That means we deal with all those acronyms, standards and protocols that give you a headache!

BDS gives you maximum market reach. We’ll help market and sell your book to libraries, the trade and the buying public.

Why wait to get your book out there and read, contact us now and find out more about how BDS can help.