Your catalogue
Formats and prices
Each format of a book, like the ebook or the paperback, has its own price, ISBN and way of reaching the reader. Set your usual formats and prices once.
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A format is one way of selling a book: the ebook, the audiobook, the paperback or the hardback. A cookbook might have only a hardback. A novel might have all four.
Your usual formats and prices
Under Store settings, Formats, tick the formats you usually sell and give each a Starting price: Paid with an amount, or Free. A format starts on Paid with no amount, and a ticked format cannot be saved until you enter a price or choose Free (“Enter a price, or choose Free.”). Every new book starts with each format ticked here. You can still change each book afterwards.
For print formats you also pick How readers get it: Printed for each order or I post it from my stock.
How each format reaches readers
| Format | How it reaches the reader |
|---|---|
| Ebook | A file the reader downloads |
| Audiobook | A file the reader downloads or plays |
| Paperback, hardback | Print on demand, or shipped from your own stock |
Print on demand sends the book to BookVault or Lulu. Own stock means you post copies yourself.
Special editions and signed copies also appear in the format list, shipped from your own stock. Readers can add a dedication to a signed copy, and the To ship page lists each copy to sign, pack and post.
Change a format
Open a book in Books. Each format has a card under Formats & prices with:
- Price: Paid with the amount in your store currency, or Free. A new format starts on Paid with no amount and is only added once you enter a price or choose Free. A free book needs no Stripe account: the reader gives their name and email, we email them a link, and the book reaches their library once they open it. See how readers get their books.
- ISBN, optional.
- For sale. Untick it to stop selling that format without removing it.
- Save and Remove this format. While it saves the button reads Saving…, then Saved ✓.
To add a format the book doesn’t have yet, pick it under Add another format and choose Add format.
Ready to sell
Each card shows Ready to sell or Not ready:
- An ebook or audiobook is ready once it has at least one file.
- A format printed for each order is ready once its print details are saved.
- A format you post from your stock is ready while you have copies on hand.
- A format that is not for sale is never ready.