A price that is not per month
One payment, one file, no account, no recurring anything. The reader who has said no to $8 a month for two years is not a lost cause — they were answering a different question.
Your subscribers already pay you. Your readers cannot buy the book.
You built the audience first and the book second, which is the opposite order to almost everyone else selling here — and it means the hard part is already done. What is missing is small and specific: your platform sells a subscription beautifully and has nowhere to sell a file. So the book goes out as an attachment, or a Drive link, or a paid post that a reader cannot get back to on the phone they read it on.
I already charge for subscriptions. Why would I also need a shop?
Because the subscription bills the few per cent who converted, and the book is for everyone else. A free subscriber who will not commit to a monthly charge will often pay once for a finished thing — different decision, different money, and today that decision has nowhere to happen. There is also the part your platform is structurally bad at: a subscription ends and takes the archive with it, while a file a reader bought stays bought. Selling the compiled book is how the writing outlives the list, and it is the one product your subscription tool does not want to sell for you.
What you get
The archive, as a book
Two years of posts is a book if you put it in order and give it a cover. Upload the EPUB and the listing writes itself from the file; set how much to give away and the sample is cut into a real EPUB, not a preview that keeps the rest hidden inside it.
Your domain, not a platform's
The shop resolves at an address you own, with the certificate handled — the same argument that put you on your own newsletter domain in the first place, applied to the thing you sell.
Buyers land in your list on their own
beehiiv publications and Ghost newsletters are connected directly, so a buyer who ticked the box is a subscriber before the receipt arrives. Only the ones who ticked it: the rest stay in your sales records, where a delivery address belongs.
Send it to a Kindle, from the download page
The people who read essays for an hour do it on an e-reader. A permanent page carries the EPUB, an in-browser reader and send-to-Kindle in one tap — and it keeps working when the subscription that referred them does not.
Nothing per sale, on any plan
Cards are charged on your own Stripe account, so you are the merchant of record and the money never passes through us. The subscription here is the only money this company sees, and the free tier runs to $500 of sales a month before there is anything to pay.
Bring the file you already have
However the file gets made — Markdown and pandoc, Vellum, Atticus, an export from the archive of what you already published. Inkwharf takes the EPUB at the end of it, checks it against the spec, and puts a checkout in front of it on a domain of yours. Buyers who tick the box go into beehiiv, Ghost, Kit, MailerLite or ActiveCampaign on their own; Substack has no way to be written to, so there the studio exports the CSV it imports.