Idea Transcript
Blog
Home » Theme Collections » Beautiful WordPress Bookstore Themes for Selling Books and e-Books
Beautiful WordPress Bookstore Themes for Selling Books and eBooks October 30, 2017
Aigars
Theme Collections
36 Comments
Here are the most amazing themes to sell e-books and hardcover books online. These WordPress bookstore themes will make your books sell with ease. With Amazon and other online book stores slowly taking over the publishing world and bookstores closing left and right, it is the right time to bring your bookstore online. Only a tiny fraction of current local bookstores will survive due to increasing costs, while Amazon and others are pushing down their prices to a minimum. Amazon has changed bookstores forever, and you should follow this e-commerce madness by creating online bookstores to sell hardcover books or e-books. While many experts believe that the iPad, the Kindle, and other tablets and e-readers will take over the hardcover book market, I strongly believe that these books are here to stay. People still love to read regular books because it’s healthier to the eyes and because these books are easier to read and won’t break when dropped. Today, we decided to create a versatile list of the best bookstore and e-book selling themes. Most of these themes are powered by WooCommerce, but there are plenty of other e-commerce platforms available for WordPress. We strongly believe that you will be able to find below the theme you have always wanted to take your business to entirely new levels of success.
BEBO
BEBO is incredibly easy to use, uncluttered, polished, and very professional. As a WordPress theme for bookstore, library, and publisher websites, it is extensively creative, highly immersive and imaginative, deeply customizable, and technologically articulate. BEBO is a feature-rich and convenient theme for authors, publishers, writers, editors, and everyone in the book, CD, DVD, and e-book industries. It’s a perfect all-in-one outlet for anyone and everyone who needs to market literary works to the world at large in a direct, customer-friendly fashion, forgoing the troublesome apparatus of third-party distribution for a sleek, reliable personal shop right on your website, so you can truly be in control of your sales! BEBO is very customizable and includes seven conceptually distinct and unique homepages, which you can use as is or fine-tune to your precise expectations and requirements. It also includes the premium Visual Composer plugin, as well as the Revolution Slider, on top of advanced technologies like AJAX-filtered searches, AJAX loading, and incredibly beautiful headers with user-friendly Mega Menus. BEBO is also WooCommerce-compatible, with plenty of custom shop styles. Let BEBO spread your words!
Book Store
Book Store is a beautiful WooCommerce theme that is compatible with WordPress. You can use it for a multitude of web pages, including library, digital product, bookstore, software distribution, e-book, and other various websites. You may implement it to establish affiliate pages, sending visitors to major online presences, such as B&N and Amazon. It doesn’t have any issue with mobile platforms, working as well as it does on desktop. Besides its function in ecommerce, it may also act as a portfolio. Regardless of the function of a page theme, though, the user’s ability to customize is paramount. Thankfully, Book Store includes a broad spectrum of colors, enabling the clients to fully express their imagination. Along with its full responsiveness, this theme is also compatible with all major web browsers: Internet Explorer 9–11, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Opera. Of course, a bookstore site would be useless without a medium for selling books. This theme includes the popular WooCommerce plugin, ensuring that your online store will be a reliable one. Your visitors will be surprised to see a Book Flip slider, a feature that eliminates the mundane in flipping through pages and instead spices it up with awesome transition effects. Building a page is often left to professionals as it can be quite difficult to accomplish. Book Store’s page builder simplifies that task. Even those that do not have a background in programing can create a productive page.
Aurum
Aurum is a sleek WordPress bookstore theme designed to facilitate the user’s shopping experience. It is easy to use and install as the interface is very intuitive. As is the case with many commercial themes, Aurum incorporates the acclaimed WooCommerce plugin, allowing the creation of an impressive online store. This theme is useful in a variety of situations, and it can enhance the sites of online shops, bookstores, boutiques, tech stores, jewelry and clothing stores, and so on. Aurum is designed to work with all major web browsers, including Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer 9-11. Upon installation, it offers you some pre-built site variants that look great. However, should you want to design your own skin, you can do so with ease. Currently, this theme has four demo variations, with more to come in the future. Some themes might have issues with cross-platform compatibility, but not Aurum. It supports touchscreen functionality, it doesn’t freeze or lose resolution when you resize, and it is accessible on both desktop and mobile devices. In addition, the support system of this bookstore theme truly stands out due to the dedicated and eager staff. Regardless of the nature of your question, you should not hesitate to ask. Also consider the expansive theme documentation, which can really inform you of what’s going on. Aurum is further able to support plugins in multiple languages, making your content and products more accessible to other demographics. It includes RTL support for languages such as Hebrew and Arabic.
Bookrev Pro
Bookrev is a modern and sleek premium WordPress theme designed and developed for book review websites. This theme has unlimited color options available, which you can modify via the simple admin dashboard. The Bookrev theme has several widget areas to add a custom functionality to your theme, such as a contact form, a slider, buttons, social buttons, or any other widget that comes with free and premium WordPress plugins. With Bookrev, you can review books and use affiliate links to redirect users to Amazon or other bookstores. With some tweaking, it could help sell other affiliate products as well, but its main use is for book reviews.
GoodStore
GoodStore is a dynamic and fully responsive WordPress theme with the finest features and options fit for an ecommerce site. This theme is custom-built for different kinds of businesses, including fashion, restaurant, medical, and portfolio websites. It supports WooCommerce integration, which enables you to set up a functional online store. With Revolution Slider, you can create attention-grabbing slideshows and presentations. In addition, the theme comes with Ads Management, eight positions by default, ad placement between posts, and advanced layout options. GoodStore provides a strong and responsive framework for your e-commerce site. While this theme doesn’t have books in it, it can sell any tangible goods, such as books and other printed materials.
Raakbookoo
Raakbookoo is a clean and beautiful WordPress theme for bookstores, publishing service businesses, and bookauthor official websites. Its clean, stylish, and responsive layout design will definitely make your website stand out. This theme comes with powerful page templates with several layout options to give you unlimited theme customization options. Raakbookoo also supports different post formats and built using valid HTML5, which works well with popular SEO plugins, like “All in One SEO Pack” and “SEO by Yoast.” Its intuitive theme options panel allows you to personalize and manage your website with ease. This bookstore website template also supports the WooCommerce plugin to help you set up an online store.
DigiSeller
For bookstore websites, DigiSeller is an ideal choice. This charming and versatile WordPress theme can give you a competitive edge, thanks to its practical features. Regardless of your technical expertise, you will be able to create a successful bookstore site by using DigiSeller. There is no need to hire a web development company as long as you can easily import demo content via the “Easy Install” button. It will also install sample data, preparing the page for use. Thanks to this feature, you can swiftly create a profitable store. To participate in online commerce, you only need to list your items and specify the payment gateway details. There is no sales number limit, so feel free to get rich. Of course, a quality bookstore site must be well-organized. Thankfully, you can set up many categories and subcategories, making it easier for clients to browse your selections. It is also possible to commercialize any other type of digital item, including video games or music files. If the checkout process is long and extensive, customers can easily lose interest. DigiSeller has reduced the number of checkout steps, helping to streamline the experience of the users. In addition, both mobile and desktop device users will get to access your bookstore site with ease.
MyBook
If you want to create an excellent bookstore website, be sure to check out MyBook. It is a reliable and professional WordPress theme that promises to enhance every aspect of your page. MyBook can accommodate all users regardless of their device preference. It can showcase your selections on tablets, laptops, smartphones, and desktop PCs. As you upload covers or any other kind of image, it will automatically resize to fit its designated frame. Manual adjustments are not required. With this theme, your bookstore site will offer many exciting design elements, such as blocks. This makes it easier to personalize the page, given that every block includes sample data. If you’ve made an error or if you do not like the direction in which your site is going, you will have the option to reset every block. To tease upcoming bookstore offers and build hype regarding future releases, the user can set up an informative newsletter. This theme lets you choose your provider: AWeber, MailChimp, FeedBlitz, or FeedBurner. For online commerce, the innovative WooCommerce plugin facilitates the creation of amazing online stores with tax, shipping, and variable product options. All features of MyBook will enhance your bookstore site and increase your sales numbers.
Papirus
Papirus is a flexible yet very stylish website template suitable for building an online bookstore or an e-book store. This modern theme has excellent features that allow you to create an exceptional landing page for your online bookstore. Grab the attention of your target customers and showcase your products with Papirus’ ample white space and clean layout. This bookstore theme is fully responsive and functions smoothly on any type of devices or screen sizes. It allows you to implement advanced CSS3 animations, while its intuitive options panel let you customize the theme to suit your needs. This modern e-book theme from WordPress also includes a page composer, a visual composer, shortcodes, a slider, and other handy features.
eBook
eBook’s target users are for book authors looking to showcase their books online and to generate more sales with ease. The eBook premium WordPress theme helps you sell books and other products. It comes with full WooCommerce toolkit compatibility, meaning you can sell both digital and physical products. Because of its simple design and straightforward setup, the theme is ideal for all WordPress beginners looking to get started as quickly as possible without wasting time on learning and tweaking.
Publisher
Publisher is a professional and attractive theme for websites that commercialize digital products. It is definitely a comprehensive and versatile WordPress app theme. With it, you can not only display your products or books but also sell them. The Tevolution and Templatic Digital Downloads plugins are free of charge with every purchase of this theme. Your customers may purchase items in several ways: either by clicking a link that takes them to Amazon or by setting up an E-junkie cart. You also get the WooCommerce plugin to commercialize your physical products. The Templatic Digital Downloads plugin, specifically, is available as a standalone download. For greater practicality and aesthetic appeal, you can count on the widgets on the home page. You can establish a personalized register page as well due to the Publisher back-end. Only the necessary fields may be included. To build up community trust, this theme also has a comment and review system. To ensure that nothing harmful gets through, you can moderate comments and reviews before they are published on the site. Thanks to Publisher’s WPML, it is possible to establish a web page in multiple languages, where each customer can shift to another language at will. The color palettes are limitless, creating a multitude of possible schemes that you can easily change with the click of a button. Applying them only takes a few seconds. Another feature is a function for blog creation.
FlatBook
FlatBook is a fully responsive e-book or app selling WordPress landing page featuring a trendy but unique flat design in unlimited color schemes. It perfectly suits businesses or individuals who would like to showcase their e-books or applications with a marketing landing page in a sophisticated, eye-catching way. This is my favorite theme on this list, thanks to its clean, flat design and beautiful color schemes. Here is a list of other flat design themes from WordPress for various purposes.
If you find that some themes are missing from this list, please feel free to leave your comment below with a detailed description about this theme, and I will make sure that it gets listed here.
Thank you for visiting Colorlib and reading this article! We highly appreciate it! Now you might want to learn how to make a website using our free WordPress themes.
BookStore
eBook
eCommerce
WooCommerce
Please Share This Share
Tweet
Pin It
Share
Aigars Frontend web developer and web designer specialized in free and premium WordPress theme development. Started to learn to code 2 years ago and now I am familiar with CSS/HTML/JavaScript (jQuery) and PHP. Obsessed with application performance, user experience and simplicity.
Related Posts
30 Best Mobile App, Software Showcase and Landing Page WordPress Themes – 2018 Modern handheld devices such as of iPhone and android smartphones are useless without mobile apps.…
50+ Jaw-Dropping WordPress Travel Themes For Travel Agencies, Hotels, Hostels, Vacation Rentals, Travel Blogs and Journals 2018
Top 15 Responsive Car Service / Auto Repair Shop WordPress Themes 2018
Comprehensive list of WordPress travel
Telecommunications have done
themes suited for hotels, motels, spas,
The world is an increasingly interconnected place. wonders to connect continents and…
travel agencies and other…
This Post Has 36 Comments gabrielsayler Hi guys, check new wordpress marketplace, they approve all items without checking to the end of the month, so you can add your products easy Reply
Aigars For advertising oportunities on our website, please see this page: https://colorlib.com/wp/advertise/ Reply
Manik Hi Aigars, Thanks for sharing these amazing WP Themes. All themes looks stylish and perfect for book store. Reply
samira Hello Aigars, Thank you so much for this stunning theme collection. All themes are nice for bookstores. Hopefully they will work as good as they are advertised. Reply
James Thanks for the list, this is exactly what I needed. Now I just need to choose the right one! Reply
Peter Parker Beautiful Themes Reply
DAVID O Hello Aigars, my name is David and I really love the themes that you outlisted. I don’t know if you also used a special theme to snap your personal photo because it really looks good.Please i would like to create a website with a wordpress theme after the beauty of gsmarena.com, but i would like to review and market not just phones but softwares also for clickbank and amazon as an affiliate marketer. I want my site up and running by the end of July 2015. Thanks bro. Reply
David Watkinson Hello David, this is David We have been selling on Clickbank for a number of years and found that there was no solid solution to be able to integrate it directly with our ecommerce system. We created a plugin for WordPress called WooClick which fully integrates Clickbank with WooCommerce, securing your digital product and only delivering it to customers who have a confirmed payment (via the Clickbank IPN). WooClick also creates an account for each customer so that you can send them updates and sell them future products. You can view full details for WooClick here: [link removed] Reply
Aigars David, For advertising options on Colorlib you can visit this page. Reply
Aigars David, Above listed themes are made for bookstores, so they might not be as flexible when selling other products such as smartphones. If you are looking to build eStore or affiliate type website then you should look into themes that are specially created for this purpose. Here are some awesome examples https://colorlib.com/wp/best-ecommerce-wordpress-themes/ Reply
David Watkinson This is a fantastic list of bookstore themes for WooCommerce. You always do such a great job. After seeing so many of your lists, we actually added your site to our Google Adwords campaign. Keep up the great work, it’s very much appreciated. Reply
Aigars David, AdWords is not the most effective advertising option on Colorlib. It works as a placeholder for much bigger things. Reply
Andre Hi Aigars, Thanks for sharing these amazing WP Themes. All themes looks stylish and perfect for book store. Reply
Debbie Hello, can you recommend a WP theme which publishes books online so readers can read them chapter by chapter? Essentially, I want readers to be able to read books online, rate them, etc. Thanks Reply
Aigars Debbie, Unfortunately, none of themes does allow to read books online without download. However, you can try combine these themes with services such as Scribd or other. It will still be your website but just embed those books from Scribd on your website and you are good to go. Otherwise you will have to hire a developer to build a custom platform for you and it is not going to be cheap for so complex functionality. Reply
Debbie OK thanks for the reply. That’s too bad, I’ll continue the search. Cheers Reply
Aigars Debbie, If you are going to continue your research and try to look for theme that supports reading functionality then you can give up right away and instead research a way how you can achieve it with plugins and 3rd party services. There are no themes ever released with this kind of functionality but this kind of setup can be done. Reply
Debbie I found this one but I need something that can do more than such as showing ads, listing authors, etc. Reply
Thao Ngan I think this list lack of some great online bookstore WordPress theme, such as: Bebo, Bookish Reply
Aigars Thao, Bookish theme used to be listed here but since it wasn’t updated for more than year we removed it. I see that there is an update for this theme and we could reconsider listing it. We keep our lists updated all the time and if we see that theme is no longer maintained we remove it to give the most accurate suggestions to four our readers. Reply
Tracy Dias They’re all so amazing. However, 2016 is coming, will you update the list? Reply
Aigars Tracy, This list will be updated in January. Make sure to subscribe to get the latest updates. Reply
Tracy Dias I already subscribed, thanks Aigars Reply
Marty Seems all of these themes are displaying desk top views as primary. What themes do you feel are best for publishers where the first priority is mobile appearance? This would mean book title on top, one big cover photo under the title, maybe 2 or 3 thumbnail images under that, then text in a narrow column below…as content appears best on iPhones for example. Reply
Aigars Marty, All of these themes are mobile friendly and responsive therefore will work well on any mobile device. Reply
Julie Halligan Hello David, I have looked at these wordpress sites and what you have to say about them, and I am hoping you can help with selection. I am a Book Reviewer for a magazine in my country, I used to also sell secondhand/collectible books some years ago (still have stock) and now I am wanting to set up a book site to not only feature my reviews (with affiliate links) but also list the collectible stock I have to sell… which would be the better option from those you have listed above that would suit my ‘needs’. many thanks Julie Reply
daniel Please i want to build an online ebook store , did i need divi,woocommerse and book store plugins Reply
Aigars Daniel, You can use Divi for that. WooCommerce is a free plugin which means that you need to pay only for theme itself. Reply
vihal is their any other theme i like bebo but its too conjusted Reply
Aigars Vihal, You don’t need to use all of the functionality that Bebo offers. Things that you see on theme theme are completely optional and are there to showcase theme functionality. You can choose what you want to use on your website and disable/remove the rest. Reply
Karl I am interested in Brown Theme. How do you recommend me to do in order to include payment GW which receives card payments AND mechanism for automatic waterstamping of the book, which is in PDF format. Reply
Aigars Karl, All themes support PayPal which means that you can accept both PayPal payments and card payments processed via PayPal. Make sure to format and protect your PDF file prior to uploading to your website for sale. Themes are going to store them and release for download after the purchase but they are not going to add andy waterstamping or anything like that. That’s your own responsibility. Reply
Pau Thanks for sharing. I’ll check them out. I’ve used bookstore it’s okish. Reply
Florin Dear Aigar. I also considered that Bebo theme it is very beautiful so I bought it and I tried to use it, and I discovered that It has a lot of bugs, a lot of small problem that make it useless. I can sent you screenshot with this annoying little problems that make this beautiful theme useless. Also the customer support did not help my, so now I lost my money, lost my confidence in the maker of Bebo theme and I need to use another theme for an bookstore but also I don’t know if other recommendation from your list will have bugs and no useful support (like the Bebo theme) What is yours advice for me in this situation? Reply
Aigars Florin, I am sorry to hear about your experience. However, with information you have provided there is not much I can help you with. What bug it was? Did you report it properly to developers? Did it lack some functionality? What features do you need and so on. Right now you are complaining in a very broad terms and there is not much I can help with unless you disclose all the details. Bebo is a great theme but it might now be for everyone, so make sure to look for theme that suit your needs. Reply
Adrialla I must tell you that the Publisher theme from Templatic is not easy to customize, especially now that they have removed their forums. It used to be simple to find answers there. But since it has been removed and no archive was left behind, you have to email them for help with every little item. Takes too much time to get answers with time zone differences, then at least 4 or 5 tries to get it the way you want it. Not very conducive to efficiency. In hindsight, we would not purchase any theme from Templatic again nor would we recommend it. Reply
Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Name *
Email *
Website
Comment
Post Comment
Disclosure: This page contains external affiliate links that may result in us receiving a commission if you choose to purchase mentioned product. The opinions on this page are our own and we don't receive additional bonus for positive reviews.