A shop for the whole series
Your pen name, your bio, your colour, and every book in reading order. One link in the back matter instead of one per title, so a reader who finishes book three finds book four without leaving your shop.
Free to start · 0% of every sale
Sell your ebooks direct, from a shop that's yours.
A reader clicks through from your newsletter, types an email, pays, and downloads. No account to make, no marketplace in the way, no retailer keeping the customer.
Not a replacement for Amazon. It's the shop you run next to it, and the same book stays on sale everywhere else.
- Your domain
- Your own domain, with the certificate sorted. If you rename the shop, old links still work, because the ones in your back matter are already out in the world.
- Your audience
- Every buyer's email, on every sale. If they tick the box, it goes straight into your list on Kit, MailerLite, ActiveCampaign, beehiiv or Ghost. Nothing sits between you and them.
- Your terms
- No exclusivity, no listing fee, and no cut of any sale on any plan.
Everything between your newsletter and their Kindle
We don't list your shop
No directory, no catalogue, no author shops in our sitemap. A platform that lists its sellers ends up competing with them for their own titles. We gave that up on purpose.
Delivery that keeps working
Every buyer gets a permanent download page with the EPUB, an in-browser reader and one-tap send-to-Kindle. Lost the link three years on? They can have it re-sent without emailing you.
New edition, same link
Upload a corrected file and every past buyer's link serves the new one. No store review, no queue, no email asking readers to go and re-download. Someone who bought two years ago still gets the fix.
A real free sample
We cut the first chapter out of your file into a proper EPUB that reads in the browser. The rest of the book isn't hiding inside it, which you can't say for most sample tools.
Traceable, not locked
Every copy carries the buyer's name and a licence code, so a pirated file leads back to someone. No DRM: it opens in any reader, for good, and it's theirs.
Your reader opens the book without leaving the page
No app, no account, no digging through a downloads folder. Every book and free sample opens in the browser reader, which paginates properly and follows the site theme. The same page has the EPUB itself and a send-to-Kindle button, because it's their file whatever they read it on. Most stores in this market still hand over a PDF and wish the reader luck.
- Nothing installed
- It's a web page, not an app
- 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
And that one subscription covers both halves of the job. Selling direct usually means a store in one place and file delivery in another, neither knowing what the other did. Two bills, two dashboards, and a reader who buys in one place and downloads from another.
The usual stack
$20–$50/mo
A storefront for the checkout, a separate service for the file. Two bills, and on some plans a cut of every sale.
This
$19/mo
Both halves, one bill. Free to start, and nothing per sale on any plan. Your money never passes through us, so there's no cut to take.
Leanpub keeps 20% of a sale, Gumroad 15% of a $9.99 book once its 50¢ is counted, Payhip 5%. Below about $126.67 a month in sales, a percentage really is the cheaper deal. Above it, the gap only widens.
Live this afternoon
- 01
Connect how you get paid
Stripe takes about two minutes. The charge happens on your own account, so you're the merchant and the money's yours. The screen walks you through it, and you can run a test sale on yourself before a real reader sees the button.
- 02
Upload the EPUB
The listing fills itself in from the file. Set a price, pick how much to give away as a sample, and publish.
- 03
Share the link
Newsletter, socials, the back matter of your last book. Every sale emails you, and the money's already in your account.
This is new, and it's small.
We're two people. We have no author count to quote and no payout total to print. What we do have is an arrangement: your reader pays on your domain, the charge lands in your own Stripe account, and your subscription is the only money we ever touch. That's not a promise to keep taking 0%. There's just no balance of ours for a percentage to come out of later.
Every figure on the comparison pages has the date we checked it and a link to the other platform's own pricing page. You don't have to take our word for any of it.
My own shop runs on it, stocked with public-domain classics so nobody's book is a prop: books.nohall.dev
Chris Nohall
Co-founder, Inkwharf
Already selling somewhere else? You don't have to do the moving. Send us a link to your current store and we'll set up the whole shop, with every book checked, priced and listed. You connect your own Stripe account at the end, so nothing of yours passes through us.
Your readers buy from you, not from us.
They arrive on your domain, pay you there, and come back there for the file, from a receipt with your name on it. Every retailer you've sold through kept that relationship for itself. We hand it to you and get out of the way. On Plus, even the small Inkwharf line on your shop comes off.
What your readers seeSelling your own book?
Opening a shop takes about five minutes and costs nothing. No listing fee, no exclusivity, and you can sell the same book anywhere else you like.
Open your shop