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Pricing & Fees

Last updated 25 October 2026 · All amounts in US dollars (USD)

Indiewright is a publishing platform for independent creators — audiobooks, eBooks, comics and graphic novels, podcasts and serialised work. Each edition of a work is sold on its own, for a price its creator sets. Creators keep 90% of that price.

Editions, and why they are priced separately

A single book can exist in more than one form. The same story might be a narrated audiobook, a readable eBook, and an illustrated edition with artwork on every page. Each of those took different work to make, so each is sold as its own product at its own price.

Creators decide which editions exist, what each one costs, and whether any of them is free. Nothing is bundled in silently and nothing is priced by us.

Bundles

Where a work has two or more editions, it can also be sold as a bundle. A bundle is cheaper than buying the same editions separately — by default 12% less than the sum of its parts. A creator can discount further; a bundle can never cost more than the editions it contains.

If you already own part of a bundle, you are not charged for it again. What you already paid for that edition comes off the bundle price, and you pay only the difference.

What listeners and readers pay

You pay per edition, or per bundle, with your card. There is no balance to load first, no credit to spend down, and nothing that expires.

The price you see is the creator's price, and it reaches them whole. A service fee is added on top and shown as its own line before you pay. Tap the i beside it at checkout and it breaks into its two parts:

The two parts: $1.00 to Indiewright, flat and the same on every purchase — it pays for storage, streaming and support, and is what lets an author publish for a one-off $20 instead of a subscription — and card processing at cost. Card networks charge 2.9% + $0.30 per payment, and we do not mark that up. Because the 30¢ is flat, it weighs much more heavily on a small purchase than a large one — which is the honest reason a whole edition is sold for a few dollars rather than a chapter being sold for a few cents. The same flatness means the fee is proportionally worst on the cheapest works: on a $0.99 edition you pay $2.36. We would rather state that than bury it.

None of it comes out of the creator's share. They receive 90% of their listing price whether the fee exists or not — it is charged to you, on top, and it is ours.

The total is always shown, and always confirmed, before anything is charged. You tick a box that names the edition and the exact amount. A purchase that was never confirmed at the figure charged is refused by our own server, not merely discouraged.

What creators pay

There are exactly two things a creator pays, and both are named here. A one-off fee to publish a work, and 10% of what that work sells for. Nothing is taken out of a sale beyond that 10%, and nothing recurs.

Publishing a work

Putting a work in front of people costs a one-off fee, charged to your card at the moment you publish it. It rises with the number of works you have published, and stops rising at the fourth:

Card processing is added on top of the publishing fee — processing only, with no service fee, because the $1.00 is charged to buyers and never to creators — and the total is shown to you and confirmed by you before anything is charged. Nothing is charged while you are building a work: you can upload audio, write a description, set prices, change your mind and delete the whole thing without paying anything. The fee is charged when you publish, and only then.

This fee is not taken out of your sales. It is not a subscription — nothing recurs, and a creator who publishes once pays once. You still keep 90% of every purchase.

Why it exists: hosting, storage, bandwidth, moderation and fraud checks all cost money from the moment a work goes live, whether or not it ever sells a copy. Charging a small amount at publication is what lets the commission stay at 10% instead of rising to cover works that never sell, and it is what stops the catalogue filling with uploads nobody intended anyone to read.

Commission, and who pays what

Indiewright keeps 10% of each sale. Creators keep 90%.

A creator selling a $14.99 audiobook receives $13.49 on every copy. No processing fee is deducted from it and no monthly account fee. When rounding is required, it rounds in the creator's favour. The publishing fee was paid once, when the work went live, and never touches a sale.

A refund or a disputed charge is taken back out of the creator. The share of that sale is reversed, because the money was returned to the buyer's bank — and when it is a dispute rather than a refund, the bank's fee for it is charged to the creator too. On a $20.00 sale that is $18.00 of share and a $15.00 fee. A creator's balance can go below zero, and withdrawals stop until later earnings bring it back up.

Recovery is from future earnings and nothing else: never a bank debit, never an invoice, never a debt collector. A creator who closes their account with a negative balance owes nothing.

This changed on 25 October 2026. Before that date Indiewright absorbed the dispute fee out of its 10%, and this page said so.

Payouts

Earnings accrue as sales are made and clear seven days after the sale. After that you ask for a payout from your Earnings screen and it lands within 3 business days. Nothing is sent automatically; we email you when your cleared earnings pass $50.00 so you know it is there to take.

Withdrawing $50.00 or more is free. Below that the minimum is $10.00 and a flat $5.00 comes off, whatever the amount — at $10.00 that is half of it, and your Earnings screen says so before you ask.

These numbers exist for reasons worth stating plainly. The seven days are because a card payment can be reversed by the buyer's bank after it looks settled; paying earnings out within minutes of a sale is exactly how a platform gets drained by stolen cards — and since 25 October 2026 a reversal comes out of the creator, so that window now protects them directly. The $50 threshold is because our payment provider charges a flat monthly fee for every account that receives a payout — paying a creator earning $20 a month every month would cost more in fees than that creator generates in commission.

The $5.00 early withdrawal fee is a price, not a pass-through: it is more than the transfer costs us. We would rather write that down than call it cost recovery. Waiting is always free and your earnings keep accruing while you wait.

Payouts used to be sent automatically at $50.00, with the early withdrawal priced at what the transfer actually cost. Both changed on 25 October 2026.

Uploads, and where the limits actually are

Once a work is published, audio, text and image uploads carry no further charge — no per-episode fee, no bandwidth bill, and no cap on how many times your work is opened. This is possible because our storage provider does not charge for bandwidth on those files.

There is one limit worth naming honestly rather than discovering: each creator has 20 GB of storage. That is a great deal of audio — roughly 400 hours at the quality we encode at — and no creator has come close to it. If you do, write to us; we would rather raise it for you than have you find out from an error message.

Video is different, because delivering it does cost us per minute watched. Video is capped at 10 minutes per file, and each creator has a free monthly viewer-minute allowance that grows as they earn — every $1 earned adds 100 viewer-minutes, on top of a free baseline of about 16 hours a month. If an allowance runs out, the episode keeps playing as audio. We do not take anyone's work offline over a bandwidth bill.

Subscriptions

Optional creator plans exist only to pre-purchase video capacity before you have earnings to fund it. They do not unlock features. Analytics, branding, episode count, storage, audio bandwidth, community tools, and payouts are never behind a plan. A creator earning steadily never needs one.