Lanternbee is made by Dario Griffo

Why a bookstore

I started out in Buenos Aires. In London I worked at Checkout.com, first as a senior software developer and then as an engineering manager. Today I lead the build of a payments gateway. Along the way I built and led engineering teams at Fourth, Kaplan and Oppl.

Payments are about who sells to whom. When a reader buys your book from a big retailer, the retailer is the seller. It keeps the reader’s email, and you see a royalty.

Lanternbee turns that around. Readers buy from a store with your name on it and pay you through your own Stripe account. Every buyer’s email comes to you, so the next book can go straight to them. Your books stay on Amazon and the other stores too.

Who runs it

For now, Lanternbee is my sole trader business in Portugal. Lanternbee is not open yet. We’re letting authors in from the waitlist, a few at a time.

Get in touch

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