Sell children's books online

Start, run, and grow your children’s book business

Get the training, tools, and support you need to build the children’s book business you’ve always wanted.

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Everything you need to sell children’s books

Free resources

Learn at your own pace with on-demand courses from Shopify Academy, and with other business owners on the Shopify Community forums. Find answers to your questions on the Shopify blog, or in our comprehensive guides.

Professional tools

Create an online children’s book store that reflects your unique brand with over 70 customizable and responsive themes. Efficiently manage your inventory and process customer orders all from one unified dashboard.

Smart marketing

Grab your customers’ attention with targeted marketing campaigns on social media and Google. Make sure customers can find your children’s book store by using Shopify’s built-in SEO tools and integrated blogging.

Award-winning support

Shopify support is available 24/7, no matter which plan you’re on. You’ll also have access to help docs, webinars, blog posts, and online courses to guide you along the way for your children’s book business encounters.

Learn more about selling children's books

  • Before you sell children's books online, you need to decide whether you want to sell used children's books or brand new kids books. When you’ve decided that, you can create a Shopify store to sell your children's books on. Customize your shop with any of the 80+ themes Shopify offers to differentiate yourself from the competition, and use high-quality images and detailed product descriptions to market and sell your books.

  • Shopify is an excellent platform to sell children's books online. With the Smart Collection feature, you can categorize your books into categories like young adult, picture books, or early readers. You can also take advantage of features that enable you to have an omnichannel marketing strategy, connecting your site to third-party platforms and integrating with your social media accounts to make managing your business in one place easier.

  • Yes, you can sell children's books on Shopify. The Shopify App Store offers more than 6,000 apps to help keep your bookstore functional. For instance, the digital download app lets you offer your customers both print and ebook options of a title. Shopify also has 100 payment gateways and countless shipping options so you can receive payment and ship books to your customers wherever they are.

  • Always check your competition and see how they price theirs books to make sure you're pricing competitively. You can also use Shopify’s free profit margin calculator to ensure you’re not running at a loss.

  • A good example of an online children's book store is Books of Wonder, which sells a whole range of books for children and young adults.

Powerful apps

Showcase your children’s books with professionally edited photos or build customer loyalty with rewards programs. With over 6000 options in the Shopify App Store, you can customize your store experience and test for success.

Sell everywhere

Sell your children’s books online, in-person, and wherever your customers are. Quickly accept payments, view sales, fulfill orders, and track inventory with the Shopify POS app—no matter where you sell.

Scalable pricing plans

For children’s book businesses at every stage and size

Show Plan Prices as Pay yearly (save 25%)* Subscription Rate

$1 for your first month

Basic

Most Popular

For solo entrepreneurs

Yearly subscription price $42 AUD per month

Card rates starting at

  • 1.75% + 30¢ AUD online
  • 1.95% + 0¢ AUD in person
  • 2% 3rd-party payment providers
$1 for your first month

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For small teams

Yearly subscription price $114 AUD per month

Card rates starting at

  • 1.6% + 30¢ AUD online
  • 1.85% + 0¢ AUD in person
  • 1% 3rd-party payment providers
$1 for your first month

Advanced

As your business scales

Yearly subscription price $431 AUD per month

Card rates starting at

  • 1.4% + 30¢ AUD online
  • 1.75% + 0¢ AUD in person
  • 0.6% 3rd-party payment providers

Start your children’s book business with Shopify today

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