Claire Ryan

Buy This Book is no longer under active development. A new plugin called the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/author-showcase/" rel="ugc">Author Showcase</a> 
is available with extended and upgraded functionality. This plugin should still work on the latest version of WordPress, and support is still available, but it won’t have any 
new features added. 

Buy This Book is a WordPress plugin designed for authors. It was created to combat three problems:
<ul>
<li>Many authors use things like the Amazon Affiliate widget to display their books, which is stripped out of webpages by adblockers. This results in their books never being seen by a significant chunk of users, as adblockers are the most popular plugins for Chrome and Firefox.</li>
<li>If authors want to just add their books and a link to Amazon, etc, they’re obliged to know some HTML and it’s something of a pain in the ass.</li>
<li>Neither option is ideal when books can be available on multiple websites.</li>
</ul>
Buy This Book takes cover images and up to seven websites, and displays them on the sidebar with a slideout menu.
It supports:
<ul>
<li>Amazon</li>
<li>Kobo</li>
<li>Barnes & Noble</li>
<li>Smashwords</li>
<li>Lulu</li>
<li>iBooks</li>
<li>One custom option</li>
</ul>
This version of the plugin can also be modified to use other services.
Suggestions for new functionality welcome! Please contact me here:
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/claireryanauthor" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a> 
<a href="http://www.twitter.com/@aetherlev" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a> 
<a href="http://www.raynfall.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Website</a>

Buy This Book

[No longer under development! See the Author Showcase plugin for similar, extended functionality.] Buy This Book allows authors to display their books …

Author Showcase is an all-in-one plugin for authors to show off their work on their site.
The Author Showcase plugin was written by an author, for authors. It was created in order to make it easy for authors to display their books, along with the buy links, in a number of different formats.
You can include the title, subtitle, cover, author name, series name, and blurb, as well as any number of links to various websites where each book may be bought.
You can then display your books on a page or post using a shortcode, or in a widget. All the messy HTML is taken care of, and each book is nicely formatted (and it should use your theme’s CSS).
<ul>
<li>Multiple display options using shortcodes – choose icons or text links, change the icon size</li>
<li>Advanced sidebar widget included</li>
<li>Column, Grid, List, and Single display modes, controlled by shortcodes</li>
<li>Include Amazon and Goodreads reviews for each book</li>
<li><a href="https://claireryanauthor.com/btbe-user-manual/" rel="nofollow ugc">User manual available</a></li>
<li>Developed with the help and feedback of the <a href="http://www.kboards.com/index.php/topic,218602.50.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Kboards Writer’s Cafe community!</a></li>
</ul>
Suggestions for new functionality welcome! Please contact me here:
<a href="https://www.twitter.com/@aetherlev" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a> 
<a href="https://www.claireryanauthor.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Website</a>

Author Showcase

The Author Showcase plugin allows authors to display their books, with buy links, on their website in a nicely formatted style.

Buy This Book vs Author Showcase