Publish
Three steps. Ten minutes. Live.
Upload your manuscript, confirm the metadata, pay $29 — and your book is live on Penworth Store within 30 minutes. 75% royalty on every sale. No exclusivity.
- Step 1
Upload
DOCX, PDF, or EPUB. We parse chapters automatically. Cover upload or AI-generated — your call.
- Step 2
Confirm metadata
Title, description, price, categories. AI suggests drafts based on your manuscript; you accept or edit.
- Step 3
Pay & publish
$29 one-time, or $99 for unlimited yearly, or join Penworth Pro for $19/mo and publish free.
Already have a Penworth account? You're in the four-click flow from the editor.
What the 25% pays for
Every sale on Penworth Store is traced to the cent. On a non-member listing, the author receives 75%. The remaining 25% covers: Stripe's payment processing (around 2.9% plus 30¢), a 2.1% chargeback reserve that is released monthly if unused, and the remainder covers infrastructure, moderation, and discovery.
When the book ships, the author sees the full breakdown on every sale — their royalty, the processing, the reserve, the platform share. No opaque pool. No surprise fees. No advertising revenue attached to your book that we keep.
If a book ships more than a few times in a year, it becomes cheaper to join Penworth.ai (from $9.99/month) — unlimited publishing, same 75% ebook and 45% audiobook royalty, plus writing tools and Livebook production included. We tell authors this on their third upload.