Publishers & Imprints

A publisher is the business that owns and runs your books — the legal and admin record with your contact details, address, and tax ID. An imprint is the public brand your books are published under: a name, logo, description, brand color, and social links. When you sign up, Pubblish creates one publisher and one imprint for you, both using your account name. Most authors only ever have that one pair, and edit them in the same place.

Opening your publisher

In the sidebar, under People, click Publishers. This always shows the list of your publishers, even when there is only one.

From the list:

  • Click a publisher’s name to open its read-only detail page.
  • Click the pencil (Edit) in the Actions column to open the publisher editor.
  • The trash can next to it deletes the publisher, and only administrators and the owner see it.

From the editor, the All publishers button (top right) takes you back to the list.

The publisher editor

The editor has three tabs: Publisher, Imprints, and Notes. Every publisher gets the same three, whatever your setup.

The Publisher tab holds the business record:

  • Basic Information — Name, Publisher UID, an Active checkbox, Sort name used for filing, and Brand color. The brand color is used for buttons and links on this publisher’s newsletters, signup forms and widgets; imprints without their own color use it. Click Reset beside the picker to clear it.
  • Contact — Contact name, Contact role, Email, Phone, and Website.
  • Address — Address line 1, Address line 2, City, County/State/Province, Postcode / ZIP code, and Country.
  • Tax Identification — Tax ID type and Tax ID number.

None of this appears publicly. Your public brand details live on the imprint instead — see “Editing an imprint” below.

Fields save on their own as you change them. The Save & Continue button at the bottom also saves everything.

The Notes tab holds Internal Notes about the publisher, which nobody outside your workspace sees.

Editing an imprint

Open the publisher editor, then click the Imprints tab. Each imprint is a card. Click a card’s Edit to open the imprint panel, which slides in from the side.

The panel holds every imprint field:

  • Logo — the brand image shown on cards and on a generated website.
  • Name, Imprint UID, an Active checkbox, and Sort name.
  • Public identity — Description (this seeds the About page of a generated website), Public email, Public website, and Brand color with its own Reset button.
  • Social links — the imprint’s public profiles.
  • Internal Notes — private to your workspace.
  • Assets — an Open asset library link that browses the files already filed under this imprint. It is not an upload area: upload from the asset library itself and attach the file there.

Fields save on their own as you change them. Click Close in the panel footer to return to the Imprints tab.

Social links are per imprint, not per publisher. Open the imprint panel as above, then find the Social links section. It appears once the imprint has been saved.

  1. Choose a platform from the dropdown.
  2. Paste the profile URL.

Each link saves automatically. You can add one link per platform. Use the chevron arrows to reorder them. Social links show on a generated website when that site has contact details turned on.

Where your imprint appears

Your imprint is how a book is credited. Each edition of a title has an Imprint field — you choose it on the Editions tab of a title. See Editions.

New editions fill in a default imprint for you. You set that default in Settings, on the Defaults tab, under Publisher Defaults — the Default publisher and Default imprint fields. See Settings.

The imprint’s logo, description, and public contact details can also appear on a website you generate for it. See Websites.

Publishing under more than one brand

You can publish under more than one name — for example a main imprint for fiction and a second for non-fiction. Each imprint gets its own name, logo, description, brand color, and social links.

To add one:

  1. Open your publisher.
  2. On the Imprints tab, click Add Imprint.
  3. Fill in the imprint’s Name and click Add Imprint in the panel footer.

Save the imprint before you look for its logo, social links and assets — those three sections only appear once it exists.

Deleting a publisher or imprint

You cannot delete an imprint while any edition still uses it. On the imprint’s delete page, Pubblish lists the editions that block deletion, each with a link to its edit page. Reassign those editions to another imprint first, then delete.

Deleting a publisher deletes its imprints too. If any of those imprints are used by editions, the publisher cannot be deleted until those editions are reassigned.