Publisher Web Sites

City Desk can work with publishers to develop websites that suit their needs and their budget. A free consultation with City Desk will help publishers sort through all of the possibilities that the internet offers and get to the heart of what will help the publisher's core business the most.

Publisher websites can serve as "virtual catalogs" or they can feature downloadable print catalogs, depending on their customers needs. City Desk can design sites that feature hundreds of titles at minimum cost. We can also work with publishers on developing sites that can be updated by staff members with little familiarity in HTML code.

Sites are designed to look professional without being cluttered with excess technology that can slow down and confuse a website without adding any value to the target user. Sites can include any variety of interactive features, such as mailing lists, password protected book clubs, easily updatable events calendars, and Amazon Associate and/or Powells partner links that earn dollars for publishers as customers click through to purchase books at these third party sites.

As opposed to author and book sites, publisher sites are billed hourly. Often it is important to have hundreds of pages featuring backlist books on a publisher's site, making the per-page billing method unreasonable for publishers. City Desk can work with publishers to help them prep their own content to flow into templated pages - saving publishers significant money on web design.

Please call City Desk to arrange for a consultation on your web needs.