Everything after the writing

Turn a manuscript into a book

• Hand it a manuscript and get back formatted, print-ready pages. No designer, no software to learn. You supply the cover art.
• Paperback, hardback and ebook, all from the same manuscript.
• Keep drafts and versions where you can find them, instead of in a folder called final-FINAL-v3.

Find out if it's any good, before you publish Free to switch on

• Send the draft to up to 100 readers at a time. They read it in the browser, so nothing is emailed around and nothing sits in a shared folder.
• Ask them the questions you actually want answered, chapter by chapter, instead of hoping for a useful reply.
• Get every answer back in one summary.

Put the book in front of readers

• Publish a real website for your books without writing a line of code. It goes live through your own free Netlify account, which you connect once.
• Every book gets its own page, built from what you already typed in once.
• Your colors, and your own imprint — the name your books are published under.

Build a readership that's yours

• Made for one job: author and publisher mailing lists. It already knows your titles, your editions and where each book is sold, so an announcement builds itself.
• Run your list here, with no second subscription to pay for.
• Offer a free download and turn a curious visitor into a subscriber.
• New subscribers get a welcome sequence automatically.
• Announce a new book with real buy links, pulled from your own catalog.

Always know what to do next

• Open the dashboard and see what needs doing today — not a report on what happened last month.
• Set your publishing process up once. Every new book then follows the same steps, without you having to remember them.
• A book that isn't ready to go live tells you exactly what is missing.
• Read your reports on screen, or export one as a spreadsheet or PDF when someone asks.

Bring other people in, safely

• Let an editor in for one book. They see that book, and nothing else.
• Add team members who work across the whole catalog, at the level of access you choose.
• Changes to your books, contributors and publishers are recorded, so who edited what always has an answer.

Type it once, and stop worrying about it

• ISBNs, subject codes, audiences, territories, prices: these are the details retailers demand and readers search on. Get them right once, and every book page and announcement is right too.
• We never count your books, however many you have. Series, box sets and collections keep them in order.
• Record a contributor once (author, editor, illustrator, translator) and reuse them across every title.
• Bring a back catalog in from a spreadsheet, and take it all out again the same way. Your data is never locked in.

Publishing other people's books Publisher plan

• Work out what every author, illustrator and agent is owed, and record what you paid them.
• Take submissions through a portal on your own site, score them, review them, and decide.

These are the only two features that depend on your plan. Both come with Publisher; Author can add submissions for $15/month.