Solutions for bookshops
Pick ebooks and audiobooks from a catalogue of more than 700,000 titles and sell them in your own store, under your brand. We set up the e-commerce, the payments and the reading experience.
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Independent bookshops and retail chains sell digital with publica.la
Catalogue
One catalogue, curated by you. Search by ISBN, author, genre or publisher, flag what you want to sell, and it shows up in your store at your price and your margin.
Filter by genre, imprint, language or market and build a store that looks like your bookshop, not like a generic marketplace.
You only pay when you sell. Adding or removing titles costs nothing and there is no shelf-space limit.
Publishers
Penguin Random House, Grupo Planeta, Hachette, Santillana, HarperCollins and thousands of independent imprints: all available from the same marketplace, without negotiating contract by contract.
Platform
No development, no integrations to maintain, no DRM to figure out. The store, the checkout and the reader arrive working, with your brand on them.
A storefront built for selling books: search, collections, promotions and a checkout that works in every market you sell to. You manage catalogue and pricing from a single dashboard.
No downloads and no accounts to set up elsewhere. The reader runs in the browser, on any device, with your branding around it.
iOS and Android. Your readers get offline reading and progress that follows them from one device to the next.
International reach
We have bestsellers in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and French, among others. Add the languages your customers ask for — or the ones you did not know they were asking for.
Widen your audience to international markets: we take care of the payment methods, the taxes and the paperwork for each country.
Card, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay and local payment methods, in more than 30 currencies.
VAT and receipts according to the buyer’s country. You get your settlement, with no paperwork.
Every title shows the price its publisher sets for that market and currency. You do not touch a thing.
Case study
Four countries, one dashboard: regional expansion with localised storefronts.
Case study
Chile’s largest bookstore chain added its digital catalogue without touching its physical operation.
Free tool
Put in your numbers and see, in under a minute, how much extra revenue you would keep by moving that share of sales to your own storefront.
No sign-up needed to run the numbers.
Common questions about launching a digital bookstore
A digital bookstore platform lets you sell ebooks, audiobooks and digital content online under your own brand. publica.la provides the storefront, payment processing, content delivery, DRM protection and reader apps — so you can focus on curating and selling books.
Yes. With publica.la you run your own digital bookstore on your domain, with your branding. You control pricing, you keep the customer relationship, and you keep a much larger share of revenue than marketplace commissions leave you.
No. publica.la is a fully managed platform: we set up the store, the payments and the reader. You manage catalogue and pricing from a dashboard. No coding and no IT team required.
More than 700,000 ebook and audiobook titles are available to bookshops through the publica.la marketplace, from Penguin Random House, Grupo Planeta, Hachette, Santillana, HarperCollins and over 2,000 independent imprints. You choose which titles to list, and a single agreement covers all of them.
Days, not months. A typical launch runs about a week: we define your catalogue, build your branded store, configure payments and taxes, and you go live with the web reader, the app and the sales dashboard running.
publica.la supports credit cards (Visa, Mastercard, Amex), PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay and local payment methods depending on the region. We handle multi-currency processing in more than 30 currencies, along with VAT and receipts based on the buyer’s country.
Yes. You can offer monthly or annual subscription plans, giving readers unlimited access to your whole catalogue or to specific collections. Subscriptions are a good way to build recurring revenue alongside single-title sales.
Readers can start reading instantly in any web browser through our online reader, or download the publica Reader app for iOS and Android. Reading progress syncs across all their devices.
Independent bookshops, bookstore chains, university bookshops and specialised retailers (children’s, academic, religious) use publica.la to add a digital offering to their business.
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Explore for librariesSubscriptions, paywalls and a reader experience built for serial digital publications.
Explore for magazinesScholarly publishing, institutional access and journal distribution backed by enterprise-grade DRM.
Explore for university pressesSell any kind of digital content — courses, audio, video, PDFs — under your own brand, on a platform you own.
Explore for content creatorsBook 30 minutes: we will show you the marketplace, put together a sample selection with your imprints, and give you concrete numbers for your market. You could be selling this week.
See how publica.la can increase your digital revenue and streamline operations.