Operated by K2MStudios

About Indiewright

How this works, what it costs, and the rules.

A book can be something you read, something you listen to, or something you look at. Indiewright lets a creator publish all three from one place, price each one separately, and keep 90% of every sale.

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For readers and listeners

One work. However you want to have it.

Most work here is sold as separate editions rather than one bundled product, so you buy the version you actually want — and only that one.

Creators can offer any two or more together as a bundle at a lower price. If you already own one edition, its price comes off the bundle — nobody pays twice for the same thing.

What things cost

• If a work has a price, the lowest it can be is 99¢ — we would rather not see anybody's work valued at nothing. A creator can still choose to give a work away, and some do; giving it away costs them more to publish, not less.
• Some creators set their edition to pay what you want, above that 99¢ floor. Anything extra you choose to pay goes into the same split, so it reaches the person who made the thing.
• Card processing is added on top of the price, never taken out of it, and the exact total is shown to you and confirmed by you before your card is touched.
• Where a creator leaves a part open, you can try it before deciding.

Refunds

You can refund a purchase within 24 hours. Beyond that we still refund if a work is removed for a rights problem, if an edition does not open or play, if you were charged twice, or if the purchase was not made by you. Refunding one edition never touches another edition you bought. Full refund policy →

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For creators

You keep 90%. There are exactly two things you pay.

One: publishing a work. A one-off fee, the same for your first work and your fortieth. You pay it once the work has been accepted — never before, and not at all if it is turned down:

Nothing is charged while you are making a work. Upload everything, set your prices, change your mind, delete it — you only pay if you publish. It is not a subscription, nothing recurs, and it is never taken out of your sales.

Two: 10% of each sale. That is the whole commission. Card processing, payouts, storage, bandwidth, tax filing and chargeback fees all come out of our 10%, not out of your 90%. On a $14.99 audiobook you receive $13.49, every copy.

Video is the one metered thing, because delivering it costs per minute watched — 10 minutes per file, with a monthly allowance that grows as you earn. If it runs out the episode keeps playing as audio. We do not take anyone's work offline over a bandwidth bill.

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What this is, and what it isn't

Indiewright is a platform, not a publisher. Creators own what they upload and are responsible for holding the rights to it. Every work is reviewed before it goes on sale, and every episode before it goes out. Some of that review is automatic. It is not a rights check either way — we cannot tell whether a creator truly owns what they uploaded — so anyone can also report a published work from inside the app. Work removed for a copyright problem is refunded to its buyers automatically.

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Every policy, in one place

The full text of everything you agree to, and everything we commit to. Nothing here is a summary — these are the documents themselves.

When a document changes in a way that affects what you agreed to, the version you accepted is kept against your account, so “you agreed” always says which agreement.

Getting hold of a person

A real person reads every message, and we aim to reply within one business day.

Indiewright is operated by K2MStudios, based in the United States. A mailing address is provided on request. More ways to reach us →