Signed copies, one library and release day
Signed copies with dedications, special-edition campaigns, pre-orders that open on release day, one library across stores with a reader and a player, team seats and a step-by-step way to add a book.
More of Lanternbee arrived on 6 November 2026. Everything below is built for the first authors from the waitlist. Buying postage labels inside Lanternbee is built but not switched on yet, and sending orders to a print partner is still being built.
Signed copies and your own stock
- Readers can add a dedication to a signed copy before it goes in the basket.
- A signing queue lists every copy to sign, book by book, with the dedication in large type. Mark each one signed.
- Print packing slips for the parcels you are posting, with the books, the dedications and the address.
- Mark a parcel shipped with its carrier and tracking number, and the reader gets an email.
- The To ship page lists every copy from your own stock still to post, signed or not, by book or by order.
- Buy a postage label for a parcel from the queue, once label buying is switched on.
- Each order takes its copies off your stock, and you get an email when stock runs low.
Special-edition campaigns
- Run a campaign with a goal, stretch goals and tiers, each with its own price, books and number of places.
- Choose per tier whether readers pay when they back it or when the campaign closes.
- If a saved card fails, the reader gets a link to update it, and Lanternbee tries again.
- If the campaign ends below its goal, you decide whether to charge the saved cards or cancel. Cancelling refunds anyone who already paid.
- Download the backers, with their tiers and addresses, as a CSV file.
Pre-orders and series
- Books release at midnight on their release date in your store’s time zone.
- On release day, pre-orders open in every buyer’s library and each buyer gets an email that the book is out.
- You get a summary the day before, with the number of pre-orders waiting.
- Readers can follow a series from your store or their library, and hear when the next book comes out.
The reader library
- At my.lanternbee.com, one library holds every book a reader bought from any Lanternbee store. The library on your own address shows only your books.
- Read EPUB ebooks in the browser, with a contents list and a choice of text size.
- A new audiobook player with a chapter list, skip buttons and playback speed.
- The reader and the player remember where the reader stopped, on any device.
Your account
- Pay yearly at a lower monthly price, or switch between monthly and yearly from your billing page.
- Refer another author with your own link. When they start paying, you get a month free.
- On the Studio plan, run several stores under one login and invite your team. Each person logs in with their own email. The Studio plan is not on sale yet.
Adding a book and saving
- Adding a book is now three steps on one page: details, formats and prices, then review and publish. The button to go on is always at the bottom, and the book is saved as a draft after the first step.
- A checklist shows what a book still needs before you can publish, and each item takes you straight to the place to fix it.
- When you edit a book, a bar at the bottom of the screen shows its status, whether your changes are saved, and Publish once it is ready.
- Every Save button now says Saving… and then Saved ✓, and we ask before you leave a page with unsaved changes.
- After you create a store, Home shows a “Get your store ready” list: connect Stripe, add and publish your first book, choose a theme, check your legal pages and view your store.
Disputes and takedowns
- When a reader disputes a payment, the order page shows the dispute, its reason and the date evidence is due.
- Lanternbee support can send dispute evidence through your Stripe account, and take down a book that breaks our terms. Both show in your store history.
On this website
- This changelog, with an RSS feed.