5 Best eBook Plugins for WordPress
Oldtimers keep saying that younger generations don’t read. That’s simply not true. They do read, but perhaps not necessarily actual, physical books. With the expansion of hand-held devices, not just smartphones but various digital readers, e-books are steadily gaining popularity. They are more practical and convenient, and oftentimes cheaper, too. If you’re in the e-book business or have content that you want to offer in the form of e-books, then we’ve got great news for you. You can easily add and sell this type of product right from your website, using one of the excellent WordPress e-book plugins.
Good WordPress e-book plugins should tick a couple of boxes. They should be light and easy to install and use. They should be rich in customization options, and they should be able to integrate easily into your website.
After careful research, we have come up with these plugins for the job:
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For those who are already using WooCommerce, the Ebook Store plugin is a simple, straightforward and convenient solution for selling e-books. With this plugin, which supports .pdf, .mubi, .epub, .txt and .zip formats, you can easily create, watermark and encrypt your content and then sell it through a simple one-click checkout.
You can offer e-book downloads or send them via email to your customers. If you want to sell e-books through WooCommerce, you don’t need to do much with the core installation of the popular eCommerce plugin, except to enable the integration with e-book Store and then proceed to create e-books as you would any other product you sell through Woo.
The watermarking feature uses customer data, which helps you assure the product gets only to those who have paid for it.
Note that encryption and WooCommerce integrations are Pro features of the plugin, which will set you back $30, but it’s a lifetime license and comes with two years of support.
Easy Digital Downloads is a plugin created with the purpose of facilitating buying and selling all sorts of digital products, e-books included. In its core version, which is – as the developers insist – free forever, Easy Digital Downloads provides full functionality for eCommerce of digital goods. It is intuitive and beginner-friendly and, as such, it is ideal for those looking for a simple and quick way to sell e-books. For those looking to expand on the basic features as they grow their business, there is a nice selection of extensions available.
Out of the box, Easy Digital Downloads comes with full shopping cart functionality, a clean and straightforward checkout process, customer management features, reporting and discount codes. As for the payment, it supports Stripe, PayPal, Google Pay and Apple Pay. Braintree, Authorize.net and several other payment options are available through free and paid extensions.
Now, here’s a quite interesting little plugin, especially for those with futuristic inclinations and for AI-enthusiasts. As an automatic post generator for WordPress, Bookomatic uses Google Books as the content source to generate content for a books and e-books blog. If you’re worried that this spells plagiarism, Bookomatic actually has a built-in random sentence generator, as well as a feature for creating synonyms, ensuring that the content you put out is fresh and as unique as possible.
Although originally created as a blog post creation tool, you can also use it to “write” and publish e-books on any subject you deem fit, using the Google Books API and a set of features that guarantee not just uniqueness but also the natural, “human” feel of the content. The plugin is also equipped with features that promote conversions, such as the Keyword Replacer Tool, which automatically substitutes select keywords with affiliate links.
The regular license for Bookomatic costs $29. There is no free trial, but you can use the Bookomatic Demo site to generate your content, which will be deleted after 24 hours.
You may remember SeedProd from our articles on enabling the maintenance mode and on the best landing page plugins. Not exactly a plugin, SeedProd is more of a full-fledged page builder that is particularly popular for creating landing and coming soon pages, as well as custom WordPress themes. If you’re already using SeedProd, you’ll be happy to hear it can help with e-books, too.
In order to sell e-books and to sell them well, you need a great landing page. Landing pages being SeedProd’s main purpose, you can use the builder to easily create engaging, converting pages from which you will lead the visitors to where they can purchase and download your e-books. You can even add CTAs, like Buy Now buttons, to your landing pages and let WooCommerce take care of the rest. SeedProd is fully equipped with everything you need for email campaigns, social platform integrations, PPC campaigns, opt-in forms and much more. Thanks to this full-featured solution, your pages will be optimized for conversion, leading to better e-book sales.
Back to basic e-book operations, Print My Blog is a plugin with a rather self-explanatory name. It allows your visitors to easily print your posts in paper, using the Quick Print feature. More importantly for our subject here, it also allows you to convert your website content into PDF and other formats, and then sell it as e-books.
The plugin removes all the unnecessary parts of a page, like the logo, the header and footer, menus and sidebars, leaving only content fit for print or e-book. Your content can be converted into .pdf, .epub or .mubi – the most popular e-book formats. You can resize the content, remove links if you don’t need them, set the pagination the way you want it, and much more. It does not have any eCommerce features, but if you’re using WooCommerce, you should be able to sell your e-books easily.
Note that while the plugin does have a free version, the features that you need for creating e-books come with the Pro version, which starts at $20/month.
Wrapping It Up
Our selection of WordPress e-book plugins may be short but it certainly doesn’t lack in options. If you’re looking for a fast and complete solution for selling e-books, check out Ebook Store. If you want to use your existing blog content and sell it as an e-book, try Print My Blog. Looking for a way to build engaging, highly converting landing pages for your e-book business? Then SeedProd is the plugin for you. Need a tool specialized in digital goods? Check out Easy Digital Downloads. Finally, if you want to see if AI-generated content can really be a match for human effort, try Bookomatic. Whichever of these WordPress e-book plugins you decide to use, let us know how it went!
