Lanternbee vs BookFunnel

Lanternbee as a BookFunnel alternative

A delivery service for ebooks and audiobooks, built for authors. Its prices and features sit next to Lanternbee’s below, including where BookFunnel does better.

Not open yet. We’re letting authors in from the waitlist, a few at a time.

What BookFunnel is

BookFunnel sends ebook and audiobook files to readers and helps them get the book onto their device. Authors use it for reader magnets, advance review copies and delivering direct sales from their store.

Who it suits

Authors who give away reader magnets, send ARCs to a review team, run group promotions, or already have a store and need the files delivered.

What BookFunnel costs

US prices, checked against the sources at the bottom of this page.

Plan	Price	Fee on sales
First-Time Author	US$2.50 a month. Billed US$30 a year; no direct sales delivery	None; your store’s fees apply
Mid-List Author	US$20 a month, or US$16.67 a month paid yearly. Audiobooks are an add-on from US$2 a month plus US$0.04 per hour delivered	None; your store’s fees apply
Bestseller	US$30 a month, or US$25 a month paid yearly	None; your store’s fees apply

BookFunnel and Lanternbee side by side

BookFunnel and Lanternbee, feature by feature
What you need	BookFunnel	Lanternbee
One book in several formats	NoIt delivers files. Your store sells them.	Yes. Ebook, audiobook, paperback and hardback live on one book page.
Series with a reading order	NoNot a store.	Yes, with the reading order you set.
Bundles and box sets	YesDelivers several books from one sale in your store.	Yes. Readers who own book one pay less for the rest.
Ebook and audiobook delivery	YesIts main job. Audiobooks cost extra.	Yes. Download links by email, and a reader library.
Send to Kindle	YesHelps readers load books onto Kindle and other devices.	Yes, from the reader library.
Print on demand for books	NoPrint codes are printed download codes, not printed books.	Partly. Printed formats are set up for BookVault or Lulu; sending orders to the printer is being built.
Your reader list	PartlySign-up pages collect emails before a free download.	Yes. Every buyer lands on your reader list, with tags.
Your own domain	NoNot a store.	Yes. yourname.lanternbee.shop or shop.yourname.com.
Monthly cost	First-Time Author: US$2.50 a month. Billed US$30 a year; no direct sales deliveryMid-List Author: US$20 a month, or US$16.67 a month paid yearly. Audiobooks are an add-on from US$2 a month plus US$0.04 per hour deliveredBestseller: US$30 a month, or US$25 a month paid yearly	Free: nothing a month. Author: US$39 a month, or US$29 paid yearly.
Fee on sales	First-Time Author: None; your store’s fees applyMid-List Author: None; your store’s fees applyBestseller: None; your store’s fees apply	None, on every plan.

BookFunnel prices in US dollars. “Not listed” means we could not find it on BookFunnel’s own pages or in the sources below, so check with them. Rows we could not check at all are left out. Card fees apply everywhere; on Lanternbee they are Stripe’s, with nothing added.

What BookFunnel does better

Fair reasons to stay where you are.

Reader magnets with their own sign-up page. On Lanternbee you can make a book Free and readers get it from your store after confirming their email, with a box to tick for your news. There is no separate landing page, and joining your list is never required to get the book.
Advance review copies, with a unique link for each reviewer and a list of who downloaded. On Lanternbee you can make a discount code for 100% off one book, limited to a number of uses and dates, but it is one shared code, the book has to be on sale already, and there is no reviewer tracking.
Group promotions with other authors in your genre.
Years of help for readers who get stuck loading a file onto an e-reader.

Moving from BookFunnel

There’s no importer for BookFunnel. Moving by hand takes these steps.

You don’t have to leave BookFunnel. Keep it for reader magnets with their own sign-up pages, review teams and group promotions.
For books you sell, Lanternbee does the delivery itself: download links by email, a reader library and Send to Kindle. Upload your files to each format of the book on Lanternbee.
If BookFunnel was delivering sales from Shopify, use our Shopify importer to move the store. Then you can drop the Mid-List or Bestseller plan if you only used it for sales.

Questions about BookFunnel and Lanternbee

Is Lanternbee a BookFunnel alternative?

For delivering books you sell or give away from your store, yes: Lanternbee emails download links, keeps a reader library and sends ebooks to Kindle, at no extra cost. A book can be Free, and a 100% discount code can give one book away to a few people. For sign-up landing pages, per-reviewer ARC links and group promotions, no. Many authors will want both.

Can I use BookFunnel and Lanternbee together?

Yes. Use BookFunnel for sign-up giveaways and review teams, and Lanternbee as the store where readers buy or pick up free books. Lanternbee does not connect to BookFunnel, so the two run side by side.

Does Lanternbee charge extra for audiobook delivery?

No. Audiobooks are delivered on every plan with nothing per hour. On BookFunnel, audiobooks are an add-on from US$2 a month plus US$0.04 per delivered hour.