Why Use Book Widgets and How to Create Your Own for Free

I have an easy tip that can be completed in about 10 minutes. Yet it will instantly create a widget with all your titles, ready to place on your blogs and websites. What's more, your fans can click through to purchase at many of their favorite online retailers!

Why do this?

In general, a widget helps you to place your titles where someone might be interested in reading them. It's like an online bookshelf that exclusively holds just your titles. With such a tool, you can very quickly plug your books with a cost free means with a cleanly designed format, built with your potential sales in mind.

How to Get Started

Get Glue recently rolled out self-service where authors can create their own called www.mybookwidget.com

This site allows you create widgets that automatically upload up to 10 covers via your ISBN-10′s. Within this widget are links to a discussion page with comments, social media sharing and online purchasing.

Here all you have to do get started.

STEP 1: Go to www.mybookwidget.com.

STEP 2: Enter up to Ten ISBN-10 numbers making sure to separate them by commas. Then create a title for the Widget.

STEP 3: Widget automatically populates for your to review. From here, you'll be able to click through for commenting and to view page on Amazon.

Step 4: Scroll to the bottom of the page and copy the code.

Step 5: Log in to your administrator and paste code in the HTML according to where you want it to appear.

You have now embedded the widget to your blog or website.

Personally, I found this task to be simple to complete and cost free. The result is that I've saved money I may have otherwise had to pay a programmer and Viola! I have my online bookshelf, exclusively filled with my ready-to-buy titles, ready to place anywhere online that will have me.

Below is my widget. See for yourself. What are your thoughts on this idea?