Your manuscript, a finished book.

Bring in the file you wrote. Leave with the ebook, the cover, and a page people can read it on — and the print files with Press.

See the demo — the workspace, and a finished book →

Digital

$199one payment, one book

Your book, finished and online.

  • Bring in your manuscript from Word
  • Edit it in two views, Reflowable and Paper
  • Magic Layout lays out the pages for you
  • Cover studio, for the ebook cover
  • EPUB — the ebook file shops sell
  • Your own book page, in four reading layouts
  • Marketing tools, co-editors and chat
  • Translation and AI editor notes — new, still rough
  • 50 AI credits included
Start your book

Press

$399one payment, one book

Everything in Digital, taken to paper.

  • Everything in Digital
  • Print-ready PDF of your pages, for any printer
  • Full paper cover — front, spine and back
  • The spine sized to your own page count
  • Barcode placed for you, from an ISBN you already own
  • 100 AI credits included
Start your book

Nothing renews and nothing is charged by the month. Your plan opens on your account as soon as the payment confirms. The AI parts run on credits, no plan includes an ISBN, and every file you make is yours to sell wherever you like.

Pay once, per book No subscription Nothing to install Every file you make is yours
Inside bookmatic

You read your book while you fix it.

One place for the whole book. Everything you need is a tab away, and your words stay where you left them.

The Value of Time Claire is in this book
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Chapter 3 · The Value of Time

She cooked the way her mother had, which is to say without a single measurement written down. A handful of this. Enough of that. You will know when it is right1. It took me eleven years and one bad winter to understand that this was not vagueness. It was trust.

CM Claire M. Suggestion

“You will know when it is right” is the whole chapter in seven words. Put it on the back cover.

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See it before you buy it.

Two ways in, and neither asks for an account. Walk through the workspace an author works in, step by step — or open a finished book in the very reader your own book gets, switch between all four reading layouts, and read it to the end.

See the demo
What it does

Eight things, one book.

You bring the writing. bookmatic does the parts that used to need a publisher.

Bring in what you wrote

Drop in your Word file and it becomes a book — chapters, footnotes and pictures and all. EPUB, RTF, ODT, HTML and Markdown come in too — even a PDF or a Google Drive link, though a PDF is the last resort and may need cleanup after. You do this once, and everything after it works on the same words.

Two views, one book

Paper shows facing pages at the size yours prints. Reflowable shows the ebook, where the text flows to fit any screen. Switch whenever you like — same words either way.

Magic Layout

One button lays out your pages: the size, the paper, the fonts, the margins. Keep what it picks or change any of it.

Cover studio

Design the cover on the real template your printer uses, so the spine comes out exactly as thick as your book. Front, spine and back, or just the ebook cover.

The files shops want

An EPUB for the ebook and a print-ready PDF for the paper one. Download them and take them anywhere — no lock-in, nothing to ask us for.

PDF is Press

Your book online

A page of its own, hosted for you, in four reading layouts. Show as much or as little free as you want, and update the live page with one button. Book pages are kept out of search engines — you hand out the link yourself.

Marketing that writes itself

Your best lines turned into pictures you can post, the most quotable lines found for you, drafts for social media, and the text for the back of your book.

Set your own prices

Decide what readers get free and what they pay for, chapter by chapter, and set the price of each edition. Both save and show on your page. Taking money on that page is switched off, so nothing sells there today.

Reader payments are off
AI credits

The AI parts run on credits.

A few things cost us real money every time they run — the translations, the editor notes, the marketing drafts. Those spend credits. A new account starts with 100 free credits, and a plan keeps you topped up to what it includes: 50 with Digital, 100 with Press. You only buy more if you run them down.

Credits never expire while your account is open. What a thing costs is shown before it runs. On the features we meter you are never charged more than the estimate — if it costs less, the difference comes back; translation is a flat 1,000 credits per language, fixed whatever the length of the book. One thing to know before you buy: to keep card fraud off the platform, credits bought above a starting allowance become spendable ten days after purchase, and the app always shows what you can spend right now.

Founding cohort

Seven authors are already inside.

The founding cohort is the first seven people to take a seat — each one carrying a real manuscript through bookmatic while it is being built. They pay half, and in return they tell us what is broken before anyone else has to meet it.

It is closed, and we are sorry. The seats went before we opened them properly, and the seven are underway. If you came here for one, there isn't one to give you.

bookmatic opens to everyone once the cohort has taken their books all the way through. Until then the demo above is the honest picture of the product. Leave your address and you get one email the day the next cohort opens — not a newsletter.

One email, then nothing until there is something to say. Ask us to delete it whenever you like — privacy notice.

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Seats taken

Founding seats were half the list price. That rate closed with the cohort; the prices above are the ones that open to the public.

Questions

Good to know.

Do you take a share of what I sell?

Not from the files. You pay for the software once, per book — the ebook, the print files and the cover are yours, and you can sell them anywhere with nothing further to pay us.

The book page bookmatic hosts for you is the one exception, and today it cannot take money at all: reader payments are switched off. You can still set your price and choose which chapters are free, and those settings save and show on your page.

Where reader payments are on, bookmatic publishes and sells that edition itself — the checkout, the tax, the delivery and the refunds are ours to carry — and pays you a royalty on every settled sale. How that works, and how the rate is set and shown to you, is written out in our Terms.

Do I need to know design?

No. bookmatic picks the page size, the fonts and the margins for you, and builds the cover on the template your printer needs. You can change anything, but you never have to.

Is it really one payment?

Yes — one Digital or Press payment covers one book, and nothing renews. The AI parts spend credits, which you buy separately and only if you use them. Anything else we sell is priced in the app, in front of you, before you agree to it.

Where can I take the files?

Anywhere. The EPUB and the print PDF are standard files with no lock-in — any shop, any printer, any platform you choose.

Is my unpublished book private?

Yes. Your draft is invite-only: only the people you invite can open it, with the link you send them. Nothing is public until you publish.

Published book pages stay out of search engines too — you hand out the link yourself. Someone at bookmatic reads your first published page before it opens to the public; after that, your books go live straight away.

What if I change my mind?

Read the refund policy — it says plainly what can be refunded and what cannot, and why credits are the exception.