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Lantern, a bookstore website template with a bookseller’s voice

For an independent shop that recommends, Lantern is a bookstore website template with new fiction, children’s books, a paperback or hardback option, and a monthly book club box chosen by your booksellers. Start with it and Cornerrr builds it under your shop’s name.

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  • Free to build and preview
  • Payments by Stripe
  • No transaction fees from Cornerrr
The Paper Lantern Books sample website, made with Cornerrr’s Lantern theme
Paper Lantern Books, a sample website made with the Lantern theme.

About this theme

Lantern Bookish and characterful for bookshops and stationers.

Lantern suits bookshops, stationers and record shops with a personal taste. Lamplit cream, brick red and a bookish serif make it warm and cozy. Lantern sells recommendations, not a list of stock: the spotlight offers three ways in (new fiction, little readers, the monthly box), the contact page is “Write to our booksellers”, and the FAQ invites parents to ask for a book for a child of a given age. The five sample books are clearly marked as sample entries, ready for your own titles.

Made for
Bookshops, Stationers, Record shops
Feel
Expressive: bold type and color
Comes with
4 pages, 6 sample products
Mood
warm, bookish, thoughtful, cosy
  • background
  • foreground
  • primary
  • accent
  • muted

What’s inside

Every page, already written.

  • Home

    A hero with a drawn lamp, a strip of “picked by booksellers”, three ways in, new fiction, the shop’s story, a statement and a reading list sign-up.

  • About

    The shop in two paragraphs and a block on keeping the shelves small on purpose, linking to the books.

  • FAQ

    What the book club box is, who chooses the books, recommendations for children and order tracking. Add events, special orders and where you ship.

  • Contact

    The “Write to our booksellers” form for orders, recommendations and gift questions. Letters land in your Inbox and email.

How it works

From a few words to your own Lantern website, live.

  1. Step 1: Describe your business

    A sentence or two is enough: what you do, who it’s for and how people buy from you.

  2. Step 2: We build it while you watch

    Cornerrr writes your pages, adds your products or services, and picks the colours, fonts and look. It takes about a minute.

  3. Step 3: Connect payments

    Link a Stripe account, or create one in a few minutes. Your customers pay you directly.

  4. Step 4: You’re live

    Publish on your free Cornerrr web address, or use your own. Change anything later by asking.

Questions

Good to know

How do I replace Lantern’s sample books?

Each sample title says it’s a sample entry. Edit them with your own titles, authors, formats and covers, add more one at a time, or import a spreadsheet of your stock on the Growth plan.

Can Lantern’s book club box renew every month?

Yes, on the Growth plan. The box can become a Stripe subscription billed monthly, and subscribers see it in their account. If you run an adult and a children’s box, list them as two plans.

Can I take special orders on Lantern?

Yes. Add a “Special order” item marked price on request: readers send the title they want, it lands in your Inbox, and you reply when you can get it.

Lantern suits

Every kind of business

Selling with Lantern

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Start with this theme and Cornerrr builds your website from it with your own name. Free until you go live.

Start with this themePreview Lantern