Direct sales for indie authors

Your shop. Your domain. Your readers’ addresses.

A reader arrives from your newsletter, types an email, pays, and downloads. No account wall, no marketplace page, no retailer keeping the customer. This site’s sitemap does not even list author shops — the platform never competes with you in search for your own title. Behind it: EPUB delivery with a real chapter sample, an in-browser reader and send-to-Kindle.

Open your shop See how it works

Your address: A domain of your own, certificate handled. Old links keep resolving after a rename, because back matter is printed.
Your audience: Every buyer's email address, on every sale. Nothing sits between the two of you.
Your terms: No exclusivity, no listing fee, and no cut of a sale on any plan.

Everything between your newsletter and their Kindle

A shop for the whole catalogue

Your pen name, your bio, your accent colour, and every title in one place. One link in the back matter instead of a different one per book.

We do not list your shop

No directory, no catalogue, no author storefronts in this site's sitemap. A platform that indexes its sellers is competing with them for their own titles, and this one has given that up on purpose.

Delivery that keeps working

A permanent download page: EPUB, in-browser reader, and send-to-Kindle in one tap. Lost the link three years later? They re-send it themselves, without emailing you.

New edition, same link

Upload a corrected file and every past buyer's link serves it. No store review, no version queue, no email asking readers to go and fetch it — the fix reaches someone who bought two years ago.

A real free sample

The first chapter cut out of your file into a genuine EPUB, readable in the browser. The rest of the book is not inside it — which is not true of most sample tools.

Traceable, not locked

Every copy carries the buyer's name and a licence code, so a file on a piracy site leads somewhere. No DRM: it opens in any reader, forever, and it is theirs.

Your reader opens the book without leaving the page

No app, no account, no download folder. Every book and every free sample opens in the in-browser reader, which paginates properly and follows the site theme — and the same page has the EPUB itself and a send-to-Kindle button, because the file is theirs whatever they choose to read it in. Most stores in this market still hand over a PDF and wish the reader luck.

Open a book now How that compares

Nothing installed: It is a web page, not a viewer
Send-to-Kindle: One tap, from the download page
No DRM: The EPUB is theirs, on any device
Samples too: A real chapter, in the same reader

The subscription is the only money we ever see

Which is also why it covers both halves of the job. Selling direct usually means a store in one place and file delivery in another, neither of which knows what the other did — two bills, two dashboards, and a reader who buys in one and downloads from the other.

The usual stack

$20–50/mo

A storefront tool for the checkout, plus a delivery service for the file. Two bills, and a percentage of every sale on some plans.

This

$19/mo

Both halves, one bill. Free to start, and nothing per sale on any plan — because the money never passes through us to take a cut from.

Leanpub keeps 20% of a sale, Gumroad 15% of a $9.99 book once its 50¢ is counted, Payhip 5%. Below about $127 a month in sales a percentage is genuinely the cheaper deal, and above it the gap never closes again.

Compare, honestly Run your own numbers

Live this afternoon

01
Connect how you get paid
Stripe for cards, in about two minutes — the charge lives on your account, so you are the merchant and the money is yours. Add a bitcoin wallet too if you want that option.
02
Upload the EPUB
The listing writes itself from the file. Set a price, choose how much of it to give away as a sample, publish.
03
Share the link
Newsletter, socials, the back matter of your last book. Every sale emails you, and the money is already in your account.

Bought a book here?

There is no account to log into. The link in your email opens your download page, and if that email is gone we will send a fresh link to the address you paid with.

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Selling your own book?

Opening a shop takes about five minutes and costs nothing. No listing fee, no exclusivity, and you keep selling the same book anywhere else you like.

Open a shop