Author websites

Your name.
Your bookshop.

Folio builds your author website from your books. Import your catalog, set up a direct store, launch on your own domain. The website Squarespace never knew how to build.

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$7/mo

your author site

on direct sales

5 min

to go live

Elena Márquez

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The Glass Meridian

Elena Márquez

Latest novel

The Glass Meridian

A story about the weight of kept promises, and the cost of silence.

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Preview

All books

Glass

Glass Meridian

Salt

Salt & Stone

Wolves

Company of Wolves

Sell on:

Amazon KDP

Kindle Unlimited

Storysquare

Smashwords

Draft2Digital

Your own store

The problem

Your Linktree
isn't a bookshop.

Authors spend months writing a book, then point readers to a link-in-bio page with four URLs and a thumbnail photo from 2019. Your website is the first impression. Right now, it's a placeholder.

Squarespace charges $16/month for a site that doesn't know what an ISBN is. WordPress requires a developer. Every "Buy" button on your current site sends readers to Amazon — which takes 30% and shows them your competitor's books on the sidebar.

Folio was built for this. Only for authors.

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Amazon

Goodreads

Instagram

Email me

Amazon keeps 30% of every sale

And shows your readers other books

Author bio: last updated 2021

Photo is from a different book launch

0 direct reader emails collected

They bought on Amazon. You have no contact.

Book cover: 48×48px thumbnail

Linktree doesn't know art from a favicon

How it works

Live in three steps.

Add your books

Paste your ISBN or import from Storysquare. Your cover, description, and buy links appear automatically.

Pick your look

Choose from 10 author themes. Change your accent colour. Add your bio and photo. Takes 10 minutes.

Go live

Publish to your-name.folio.app or connect yourname.com. Your site is live. Share it everywhere.

Features

Built for authors.
Not for everyone.

Your books auto-import

Connect your ISBN, Storysquare, or Amazon listing. Your catalog appears instantly — cover art, description, buy links, everything.

Sell directly — 0% commission

On the Store plan, every sale goes to you. No Amazon cut. No distributor fee. Stripe payments, instant payout.

Custom domain in 5 minutes

yourname.com. Point your domain, we handle SSL, CDN, everything. No technical knowledge required.

Book launch toolkit

Pre-order page, countdown timer, launch day announcement, email list capture. Everything for a proper book launch — built in.

Press kit built in

High-res cover downloads, author photo, bio in multiple lengths, review quotes. Journalists and bloggers can grab everything in one click.

Book-aware analytics

See which cover got the most clicks, which store converts best, where readers come from. All in one dashboard.

Honest comparison

Squarespace is not your people.

Feature	Squarespace	WordPress	Folio
Price	$16/mo	$10+/mo + plugins	$7–29/mo
Book catalog import	Manual only	Plugin needed	Auto from ISBN
Direct book sales	Via third party	WooCommerce + dev	Built in, 0% commission
Book-aware themes	✗ Generic	✗ Generic	✓ 10 author themes
Press kit page	DIY	Plugin	Built in
Launch countdown	✗	Plugin	Built in
PrintKit integration	✗	✗	✓ One click
Setup time	Hours + design work	Days	5 minutes

"I spent two days trying to get Squarespace to show my book covers properly. Folio did it on the first try, and it actually looked like a real author's website."

— Asha R., author of The Waiting Season

Pricing

Your author site, at author prices.

Squarespace is $16/month for a generic site.
We're $7/month for one that actually knows you're an author.

Basic

$7/month

Your name.folio.app subdomain

✓Unlimited books in catalog
✓Author bio + press page
✓Links to Amazon, Kindle, Storysquare
✓Built-in contact form

Your name.Your bookshop.