A store listing gives a reader a cover, a blurb, and a Buy button. It does not let them read anything, and it never tells you who was interested. Every browser who was almost convinced simply disappears.
The AIWriteBook book page inverts that. The first chapter is right there in full, free, no signup — the strongest sample you have, doing the selling. The next few chapters — you choose how many — sit behind a name-and-email form. A reader who is hooked hands over an address to keep going, gets the chapters instantly, and joins a subscriber list that belongs to you rather than to a store.
How a book page works
Book pages come from books you already finished. The publishing screen is where you set the handful of things a reader-facing page needs.
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Finish the book and give it a cover
A book gets a public page once it has a title and a cover, and joins your author page grid once chapter one is written. Blurb, subtitle, genres, and language all come from the book itself, so the page fills in as you complete the wizard.
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Set the page URL
Your book sits under your author page at your-page/book-slug. The slug is editable in lowercase letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores, with a copy button and an open-in-new-tab link right next to it. Publishing to NanoReads locks it so existing links keep working.
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Decide how much to give away
Chapter one is always free and always visible. Then you set how many of the following chapters unlock in exchange for an email — anywhere from none at all up to every remaining chapter in the book.
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Add your buy links
List every store you sell on with a platform, a URL, and an optional button label. They appear on the page and again in a dedicated buy section. Extra links — a review page, a series hub, a press kit — sit alongside them with their own descriptions.
What the book page does for you
It is a landing page, a free sample, and a list-building form in one URL.
The whole first chapter, free
Not an extract, not three paragraphs — the full opening chapter, rendered as formatted prose. If you generated narration for it, an audio player sits above the text so readers can listen instead.
An email gate you control
Readers see a fading teaser of the next chapter and a short form. Once they submit, the chapters unlock in place, and a cookie remembers them on that book so returning readers do not fill it in again.
Buy links to every store
Amazon, Kobo, Apple Books, your own shop — as many as you sell on, each with its own label. Nothing forces a reader through a single retailer.
Built to be shared
Each page carries its own title, description from your blurb, canonical URL, Open Graph and Twitter card tags using your cover, and Book structured data with author, genre, and language. A pasted link unfurls as a book, not a URL.
Who the book page is for
The same page solves several different problems depending on what you are trying to do.
- Authors running ads
- Send paid traffic somewhere that lets people actually read before they buy, and capture the ones who are not ready yet instead of losing them.
- Authors building a list
- The gated chapters are the lead magnet, and the book is the lead magnet — no separate freebie to write, design, and deliver.
- Series authors
- Give book one a generous free preview, then send the subscriber list it builds a launch email when book two is ready — straight to the readers who finished the first one.
- Visual and illustrated book creators
- Illustrated and visual books are built page by page in AIWriteBook, so their cover, blurb, genres, and buy links all work the same way on a public book page.
Every book page has its own switch
A book can be hidden from your author page without touching anything else, and switching your author page off takes every book page with it. Both states serve a paused notice and are excluded from search indexing, so you can stage a launch, take a title down, or hold a book back without deleting a thing.
What a reader sees, top to bottom
One page, in the order a browser meets it.
What you set
Cover and title from the book. Subtitle and blurb from the publishing step. Genres from the book setup. Slug: the-frozen-marsh. Email-gated chapters: 3. Buy links: Amazon, Kobo. Extra link: the series page.
What a reader gets
A link back to your author page, then the cover beside the title, subtitle, your name, and badges for chapter count, language, and audio. The blurb, the genre tags, and your store buttons. Then chapter one in full — and under it a fading glimpse of chapter two with a form offering the next three chapters for an email. At the bottom, a buy section with every store and extra link you added.
Everything above is drawn from the book you already wrote and the publishing fields you already filled in. The page is not a second copy of your book to maintain.
Frequently asked questions
What authors ask before they publish a book page.
Keep going
Tools and guides that pair with your book page:
Let the book do the convincing
The most persuasive thing you own is the first chapter of your own book. A book page puts it in front of every visitor for free, turns the readers who want more into subscribers you can reach again, and sends the ones who are ready to buy to whichever store they prefer — all from a link you can put anywhere.
See how book pages fit the wider book marketing workflow