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Write Our Rules

We are building an e-book marketplace to be run as a platform co-op with indie authors and workers as the owners.

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Joanna

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Share Your Writing Tips

Published on February 14, 2023 by Joanna

We'd love to share some writing tip videos on TikTok and IG to help grow our reach. Please feel free to drop your favorite writing tips here!

Other Crowdfunding Rewards

Published on February 8, 2023 by Joanna

What other rewards should we offer our contributors? Please share any and all ideas!

Public Domain Books for Beta Launch

Published on February 8, 2023 by Joanna

We're thinking about launching our marketplace in beta mode with public domain e-books. This will give supporters a way to test out the site ahead of the full launch, which is when authors will be able to start selling their e-books in the...

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A good book makes the world an infinitely better place, so we want to empower the people who make books, especially indie authors!

Technology has helped more writers achieve their dreams of becoming published authors than ever before, but the dream of making a stable, full-time income from writing is still out of reach for far too many. One big reason for this is the fact that existing self-publishing platforms are corporations that put profits over people. They take too big a cut of authors' profits and subject authors to unfair business practices.

We think authors deserve a marketplace where they're in charge. As co-op members, the authors who sell e-books on our platform will make business decisions democratically. The platform will take a smaller cut of e-book sales, plus authors will have the option to distribute a portion of the co-op's profits back to themselves as patronage.

Our marketplace will also strive to offer readers a better browsing experience. Instead of burying search results under ads, we'll focus on helping each reader find the right books for them--without ever harvesting their data. 

If that sounds good to you, we would love to have you become part of our story!

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Joanna

Admin