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BookBub Author Websites Review: Price, Features and Score

BookBub Author Websites at a glance: Free plan; paid from $7.99 a month (billed yearly), on web. Below are its plans, what its own site says it does for an author, its score and the products to compare it with. We did not test it ourselves; the data was checked on October 14, 2026.

Prices and data checked October 14, 2026 · Author Score computed by a published formula, not paid for

BookBub Author Websites on the BookBird Author Score

Author Score · author website builders · #3 of 7 ·

Best for: Authors wanting a free author site with built-in email sign-ups

BookBird Author Score8.1/10 #3 of 7 author website builders. Worked out from BookBub Author Websites’s own pages, its price and US searches for its name, not typed in. Author jobs50 pts42.9/50Each of the 7 author jobs on the author website builders list is worth an equal share of 50 points, and counts only when BookBub Author Websites’s own pages confirm it. 6 of 7 confirmed = 42.9 points. A job the vendor does not mention earns nothing.Cost25 pts25/25A free plan, or a platform that takes no upfront fee, earns all 25 points.Adoption25 pts13.6/25Searches, 20 points: 320 a month for “bookbub author websites”, against Squarespace, the most searched in this category (673,000), on a log scale = 8.6. Trend, 5 points: up 51% (last three months against the first three of the year) = 5; a fall of half or more earns 0, no change 2.5, a rise of half or more 5. 81.5 of 100 points= 8.1 out of 10 The full method, with every product’s points →

Author jobs, from BookBub Author Websites’s own pages

  • Yes: Book pages with store links
  • Yes: Templates made for authors
  • Yes: Newsletter sign-up
  • Yes: Your own domain
  • Yes: Blog or news page
  • Not stated: Sell books from the site (not stated)
  • Yes: Search settings you control

BookBub Author Websites pricing

Free plan + paid plans. There is a free plan. Free trial: 14 days. The plans as BookBub Author Websites’s own site listed them on October 14, 2026, in US dollars:

  • Free (3 basic templates, essential pages including Blog, built-in email form, up to 1,000 emails sent per month; can connect a custom domain you own at no cost, or register one for $15/year; free subdomain on author-pages.com)
  • Pro (monthly): $9.99 a month (dozens of templates, Series, Press Kit and Events pages, up to 10,000 emails per month, reader magnets, landing pages, email-platform integrations)
  • Pro (annual): $7.99 a month (per month, billed annually; same features as Pro monthly; first year of a domain registered through the service is free)

Prices from the pricing page (read via WebFetch) and confirmed by the help article 'How much does Author Websites cost?' (updated 2026-09-24). The 14-day Pro trial needs no credit card; without a subscription the site moves to Free. Domain registration through the service is $15/year; connecting an existing domain costs nothing on either plan.

What BookBub Author Websites offers

From BookBub Author Websites’s own pages, checked on October 14, 2026:

  • Imports book details from Amazon or BookBub listings and generates book and series pages
  • Book pages carry the cover, description, retailer links and reader reviews
  • 85 author templates grouped by genre, a few free and the rest Pro
  • Built-in mailing list, sign-up forms, welcome email and newsletter sending
  • Reader magnets and landing pages on Pro; MailerLite, Mailchimp, Flodesk and Kit integrations
  • Blog page, plus Events, Press Kit and custom pages on Pro
  • Automatic sitemap and book schema markup; site title and description editable in settings
  • Google Analytics, Meta pixel and URL redirects on Pro

Runs on: web. Needs an internet connection.

Who BookBub Author Websites suits, and what its pages do not say

Best for: Authors wanting a free author site with built-in email sign-ups.

Not confirmed on BookBub Author Websites’s pages when we checked: sell books from the site. That is what the vendor states, not a test; a feature can exist without being described, and the score only credits what is.

About 320 people a month search Google in the US for “bookbub author websites”, up 51% over the past year (Google Ads data via DataForSEO).

BookBub Author Websites alternatives

SoftwareScorePrice fromBest for
Wix9.7Free plan; paid from $17 a month (billed yearly)Authors who want author templates and a free starter site
WordPress.com8.2Free plan; paid from $48 a yearAuthors who blog or send posts as a newsletter on WordPress
Tertulia author websites7.5$7.99 a month (billed yearly)Authors selling ebooks and audiobooks direct without per-sale fees
Weblium7.4$132 a yearAuthors on a budget who want an e-book store template
Carrd7.3Free plan; paid from $9 a yearAuthors who need a single landing page with an email sign-up

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BookBub Author Websites questions

How much does BookBub Author Websites cost?

Free plan; paid from $7.99 a month (billed yearly). BookBub Author Websites lists 3 plans; the full list is under Pricing above.

What does BookBub Author Websites run on?

web, according to its own site.

Is there a free trial of BookBub Author Websites?

Yes, 14 days.

How the score is computed: the formula, step by step. Prices and features were read from BookBub Author Websites’s own site on October 14, 2026; nobody pays to be listed.