For indie authors & small presses

Build a bookstore Amazon can't shut down.

Ownshelf is your own bookstore: your storefront, your checkout, your readers. Every sale hands you the customer email, so you own your store, your readers and your email list for life.

Get Started — $17One-time payment · Live in a day
Own your customersKeep 95%+No account terminations
The marketplace trap

On a marketplace, you own nothing.

A single automated review can freeze a KDP account and a decade of income with it. No appeal, no phone number, no customer list to fall back on — because the buyers were never yours.

  • Terminations arrive by template email, with no route back in.
  • Your buyers are the platform's buyers — you never see the emails.
  • Royalty splits and ad costs quietly eat the margin on every copy.
  • Rankings, pricing and visibility change without warning.
How it works

Three steps to a store that's yours.

Step 1

Build your store

Pick a name, upload your titles, publish a branded storefront in an afternoon.

Step 2

Sell & capture emails

Every Stripe checkout hands you the reader's email — yours, not a marketplace's.

Step 3

Upsell bundles on autopilot

Series bundles and post-purchase offers lift order value while you sleep.

Everything included

A publishing business in one dashboard.

Branded storefront

Your name above the door, your covers front and centre, on your own link.

Stripe checkout with email capture

Fast, trusted checkout that turns every buyer into a subscriber.

Secure delivery

Expiring, watermark-ready download links for EPUB, PDF and audio.

Bundle upsells

Group titles into offers and add one-click upsells at checkout.

Own your email list

Export any time. No platform standing between you and your readers.

BookBub-ready traffic links

Trackable campaign links so you know which promo actually paid.

Comparison

Why not just Amazon or Gumroad?

What mattersOwnshelfAmazon KDPGumroad
You keep the customer emailYesNoNo
95%+ of every saleYesNoNo
No account terminationsYesNoYes
Built for books & series bundlesYesNoNo
Your branding, your domainYesNoYes
Reader analytics you controlYesNoNo
Early authors

Built with authors who'd been burned.

"I rebuilt my whole backlist as a store in one weekend. First bundle outsold a month of marketplace royalties."

Author placeholderCozy mystery, 14 titles

"Losing my KDP account cost me a year. Now the list lives with me, so it can never happen twice."

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"Checkout to download is seconds, and I finally see which promo actually converts."

Author placeholderLitRPG series, 22 titles
Pricing

One-time pricing. You keep the royalties.

Start with Core for $17 — no subscription. Add the upgrades you actually need. Payment processing fees are Stripe's own.

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Ownshelf — Core

Launch your own bookstore and start selling.

$17 one-time

  • 1 storefront
  • Up to 10 titles
  • Stripe checkout
  • Buyer emails are yours
Get Started — $17

Ownshelf PRO

Unlimited + Profit Engine.

$37 one-time

  • Unlimited titles & bundles
  • Order bumps & post-purchase OTO
  • Coupons & custom domain
  • Ownshelf badge removed
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Email Autopilot

Broadcasts, segments and automated follow-up.

$47 one-time

  • Campaign builder
  • Segments
  • Automation flows
  • Abandoned checkout recovery
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Traffic Engine

BookBub Accelerator.

$27 one-time

  • Campaign links & UTMs
  • AI ad generator
  • Swipe vault
  • EPC optimiser
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Agency & White-Label

Run stores for clients under your own brand.

$67–$147 one-time

  • Client sub-accounts
  • White-label branding
  • Agency dashboard
  • Priority support
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Your next book should build your business, not theirs.

Open your Ownshelf store today and keep every reader you earn.

Get Started — $17