Pricing
Aggressive creator economics. Serious institutional publishing.
ReaderPub supports two paths:
- authors/publishers selling directly to readers.
- institutions publishing trusted collections for the public.
Sell directly to your readers, and keep the audience.
Keep your audience, keep your data, and keep more of each sale.
- Sell web editions and EPUBs directly on ReaderPub.
- First-party analytics: sales, cohorts, engagement.
- Fan clubs: memberships, drops, early access, and campaigns.
- Optional EPUB delivery for external distribution and archiving.
5% fee on sales
Low marketplace fee for direct sales.
Direct reader access
No platform lock-in. Own your reader relationship.
Sustainable publishing model
ReaderPub is designed for active publishing catalogs with real readership, long-term discovery, and sustainable hosting economics.
Free Indie
$0 / month
Best for independent authors and small launches.
- Up to 5 active titles
- 5% sales fee
- Direct sales to connected readers
- Basic analytics
- Reader access and discovery
Creator
$9 / month
Best for growing author catalogs.
- Up to 50 active titles
- Expanded analytics
- Campaign and launch tools
- Enhanced discovery controls
- Everything in Free Indie
Publisher
$49 / month
Best for publishers and larger catalogs.
- Up to 500 active titles
- Bulk ingest
- Advanced analytics
- Cohort and campaign tools
- Priority onboarding
Studio
$199 / month
Best for large-scale publishing operations.
- Up to 5,000 active titles
- API ingest support
- Large-scale catalog management
- Advanced reporting
- Dedicated scaling support
Active catalog economics
ReaderPub prioritizes books with readership, circulation, and engagement. Older or inactive titles may gradually transition into archival discovery tiers optimized for long-term preservation and low-cost hosting.
Promotion and analytics
Optional promotion and analytics tools are available for launches, featured placements, reading campaigns, audience growth, cohorts, and community programs. These tools help authors and publishers grow readership without changing the low 5% marketplace fee.
Additional active-title capacity and enterprise-scale catalog plans are available during onboarding.
Institution plans (subscription + storage)
For libraries, universities, government, and public organizations — publish trusted collections to the web with a modern reader.
Institutions publish collections, programs, archives, and public libraries. ReaderPub is the missing web layer: fast onboarding, clean discovery, and a real in-browser reading experience. Institutions budget annually and publish collections over time, so pricing is subscription-based with storage included — with predictable overage when needed.
Starter
for pilots and small collections
- $499 / month
- Up to 5,000 titles
- Up to 200 GB storage
- reader.pub subdomain
- Basic analytics
Standard
for libraries and departments
- $1,499 / month
- Up to 50,000 titles
- Up to 1 TB storage
- Custom subdomain option
- Program pages + cohorts
- Advanced analytics
Enterprise
for university systems and public agencies
- Talk to us
- 100,000+ titles
- SSO/SAML
- Dedicated onboarding
- Custom integrations
- SLA
What’s included
- Two deployment options: a reader.pub subdomain OR your own subdomain mapped to ReaderPub hosting.
- Bulk ingest and catalog import (metadata + covers).
- Collections, shelves, and public reading rooms.
- Institution-wide analytics and engagement reporting.
- Optional EPUB delivery package for archiving or external distribution.
Add-ons
- Additional storage and bandwidth (metered over included limits).
- Custom integrations (catalog, authentication, reporting).
- Migration support for legacy collections.
Onboarding process
From files or catalogs to a public web library — fast.
During the onboarding process, you specify your needs and requirements, and your pricing model will adjust accordingly.