Sell without Amazon’s platform tax.
5% fees on sales and rentals. Direct reader relationships. First-party analytics. Fan clubs built in.
Low commission: 5% on sales, 5% on rentals.
ReaderPub vs Amazon (for authors and publishers)
- Fees: ReaderPub 5% sales / 5% rentals vs higher marketplace fees.
- Reader access: direct relationship with registered readers vs platform-owned audience.
- Analytics: first-party sales + rentals + engagement vs limited reporting.
- Community: fan clubs for each book vs no direct fan club layer.
Unlike Amazon, you build a direct relationship with registered readers on ReaderPub. Keep your audience and your data—ReaderPub is built for direct publishing.
Monetize your catalog
Publish on the web — with optional EPUB output when you need it.
- Direct sales
- Time-limited rentals
- Bundles and promotions (optional)
- Fan clubs and memberships
- Web edition plus optional production-ready EPUB delivery.
Save one 5% commission versus Amazon's 35%. Use your freed-up resources to promote your books on ReaderPub.
Sell and rent directly to your readers.
Keep your audience, keep your data, and keep more of each sale.
- Sell web editions and ebooks directly on ReaderPub.
- Offer rentals for courses, cohorts, and short-term access.
- Low commission: 5% on sales, 5% on rentals, far below Amazon’s take.
- See sales, rentals, and reader engagement analytics in one place.
Fan clubs for every book and author.
Build a member community around your work. Reward readers, announce releases, and turn buyers into loyal fans.
- Members-only posts, updates, and behind-the-scenes notes.
- Early access, bonus chapters, limited drops, and rentals.
- Direct announcements to your registered audience.
- Fan insights tied to sales and rentals — what converts and retains.
Sell ownership. Rent access.
ReaderPub lets you monetize the same book two ways — permanent purchase for long-term readers, and time-limited rentals for courses, cohorts, and short-term use.
Sale (Buy)
- Permanent access in the reader’s library.
- Readers can return anytime — ideal for fiction and long-form nonfiction.
- Optional downloadable EPUB if you enable it.
Rental (Time-limited)
- Full access for a defined window (7/14/30/90 days — you choose).
- Web-only reading — no file delivery.
- Access expires when the rental window ends.
How to price it
- You set both prices — sale and rental.
- A common rental pattern: 20–40% of the sale price for short windows.
- Example: Sale $9.99 → 30-day rental $2.99; 90-day rental $4.99.
Author benefits
Everything you need to publish, manage, and grow your work.
- Organize sources, annotations, and drafts in one place.
- Publish to a public audience or private collaborators.
- Build authority with transparent references and updates.
- Keep work structured across projects and editions.
Make your research legible
Show readers where ideas come from and where they lead.
- Show sources, references, and context alongside your texts.
- Present evolving ideas transparently, not as static PDFs.
- Invite readers, collaborators, and institutions into your work.
- Turn research and writing into a readable public record.
Publish your book on ReaderPub
Sell and rent directly to readers — keep your audience.