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When it comes to picture books, an attractive cover may catch the eye but browsing sells the book.

That’s how it’s always been: picture books are paged through in bookstores and then bought. But as more sales move online, how do you sell a book with only a cover?

Welcome to BigUniverse.com - We Are Something New!

We make your picture books fully readable, completely secure, and linked to the buy site of your choice (even your own website). What’s more, we’ll bring thousands of visitors to your picture books every month. They’ll find your books easy to read, easy to buy, and impossible to download. We’ll build you a mini-webshop packed with information about your publishing house, more books to buy, and a button to zap visitors from our website to yours.

And we'll do it for free!

Why This is a No-Brainer

Industry consolidation has made it harder than ever for high-quality children's books to reach readers. The Internet gives publishers an effective channel for bringing their products directly to customers. However, effective online marketing can be prohibitively expensive for publishers. Big Universe gives children's book publishers the platform and the expertise to reach customers via Internet marketing using one or more of the programs described below.

BigUniverse.com is a community offering online, fully readable, non-downloadable children's books as its core product. Therefore, having many books on this website boosts the value of both the website and the publishers simultaneously.

In addition to putting the books on its site, Big Universe also helps promote and sell the books through "buy" links and attractive online publisher "shops." The benefits of this program for publishers include:

Exceptional Internet marketing at no cost
Generation of direct sales
Exposure for less active titles

Please visit our shops page for examples of publisher shops.

How The Customer Benefits

Thanks to Big Universe, people can now browse books online, buy it, and share it without leaving home! Look what one customer had to say about it:

I am very happy to be able to read the entire books on Big Universe, so I could make the exact decision which books would fit for my children. ...First I thought it would be enough for them to read the books on the web-site, but no: they love to hold the books in their hands and read them on the sofa :)

If I would not be able to see the whole books on Biguniverse.com, not only I would not buy them, I wouldn't even have any idea about the existence of [their publisher], since I have never seen them in book stores before.

- Eva Lewis, mother of three, who bought 7 titles