Firsty Express

Our growing list of publisher clients can expect the following list of core features:

• Category and product pages for each title
• 'Buy now' and checkout facilities
• eBook distribution direct from site
• Customer account area and eLibrary
• DRM protection and/or digital watermarking, if required – available at title level
• Administration dashboard to manage your eBookstore
• Secure hosting and maintenance
• BIC, BISAC and or custom categorisation facility
• Review/gratis copies functionality
• Voucher code creation and management
• Seamless mailing list creation for your users
• Single click checkout, easing the customer journey.

All of this provided within a responsive web design, ensuring that browsing, purchasing, and downloading can be carried out on devices of all sizes…

We'd be happy to walk you through a tour of the back end admin area whenever convenient – just get in touch..

Product listings page with My Account, Help and Basket links.

Product page with book details, share links and Buy button.

Basket screen showing product details and price with Checkout button.

Checkout page where users can register or login.

Payments page with secure transactions through Sage Pay or PayPal.

Customer Account area where purchased eBooks can be downloaded to various devices.

HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF SALE PRICE BY SELLING DIRECT

Our Firsty Express package offer you the opportunity of earning 70% of the Net price (after tax) when you sell your titles direct. This includes all charges for credit cards, DRM and VAT (Firsty calculates and pays the relevent tax for each territory).

DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT (DRM) A STANDARD PROVISION

All titles sold on our Firsty Express platform can have DRM protection. This is provided by Adobe Content Server 4 (ASC4). Alternatively you can opt for Digital Watermarking or no DRM.

YOUR EBOOKS AVAILABLE ON ALL MAJOR READING DEVICES

Most reading devices, including iPad, iPhone and Android devices, will be able to read eBooks from your site as standard ePub titles (note that iPad requires a reader download). We also convert to Mobi format, for Kindle readers if Digital Watermarking is chosen.

SECURE PAYMENT GATEWAY, WITH ROYALTIES PAID MONTHLY

All payment pages can be branded with your Publisher's name via a secure gateway using industry standard Secure Socket Layers (SSL) for encryption, with royalty payments being made on a monthly basis via self billing by Firsty.

PLUG-INS AVAILABLE TO SUIT DIFFERENT TYPES OF PUBLISHERS

Our plug-ins are designed to suit all publishers, from small to larger publishers simply wanting to add a handful of eBooks (simple plug-in) to a few hundred where search and categorisation is required.