Digital signage built for independent bookstores
A bookstore sells discovery, but the handwritten staff-pick card reaches only the person standing directly in front of it. Your events, book clubs, and signed editions deserve a wider audience.
Presently surfaces the right shelf to the right browser: literary fiction picks for one customer, the new YA table for the next, this Thursday's author event for everyone, all in a quiet, bookish visual style that respects the room.
Why a static display falls short in a bookstore
Events are your moat, but attendance is luck
Author nights and book clubs are what Amazon cannot copy. A screen by the register and one by the door puts every upcoming event in front of every visitor, automatically.
Staff picks do not scale
Your booksellers' taste is the store's brand. Rotating their picks on screen, with a line about why, multiplies the hand-sell without flagging anyone down.
Whole genres go unexplored
Customers beeline to their usual section and never see your graphic novels or local-author shelf. Audience-aware features tempt browsers toward sections they skip.
What the screen shows, by who walks up
Presently detects approximate audience signals (age range, gender) with on-device computer vision, picks the best-matching content from your library, and discards the camera frame immediately. Nothing is stored, nothing leaves the building.
Try it: tap who walks up
This is the same routing logic that runs on the device. Pick a customer and watch the display pick the creative.
She walks up in leggings and sees the activewear wall, not a clearance banner.
Who walks up to the display · tap to try
What you get
$79/month, hardware included
Founding pilot rate, locked for life. The device ships pre-configured; plug it into power and a screen.
Works without internet
Runs entirely on your local network. Outages never blank the screen.
Private by architecture
On-device inference only. No images stored, no data transmitted, no customer profiles. BIPA-safe by design.
Managed from your phone
Upload content, tag audiences, and see performance from the dashboard on your store WiFi.
Run the numbers for your bookstore
Start with the complete bookstore signage guide, then check the payback math with the free ROI calculator and see how Presently stacks up in the platform comparison.