Sell books directly. Without building an ecommerce stack.
Copystead gives independent authors one place to sell ebooks and print books, deliver them to readers, and keep the relationship with the people who buy them.
Built for books
One record for each book, with its ebook and its paperback sold from the same page in the same checkout. Ebooks land in the reader’s library and on their Kindle. Paperbacks are printed and shipped to order.
Planned after launch: bundles and special editions.
Direct sales without the stack
No stitching together Shopify, BookFunnel, a fulfillment plugin, automations and a tax tool. Checkout, delivery, printing and sales tax are one system, and the sales tax is collected and filed for you.
Your readers are yours
Every reader’s email address and purchase history belongs to you. Export all of it in one click, whenever you like. Nothing is held back to keep you here.
Easy migration
Bring your catalog, your mailing list and your past buyers with you. Readers who already bought a book from you find it waiting in their library.
Who gets in first
Copystead opens to a small founding group of authors before anyone else. After you join, five short questions, all optional, ask what you publish and how you sell today. The answers are how the first group is chosen.
Built with Claude
Claude helps power Copystead’s catalog migration, book metadata processing, storefront setup, and support workflows. We’re using Claude to turn messy author data into structured book records and make moving from existing platforms substantially easier.