Riley
Support · AI agent
Riley is an AI agent. She can look things up, email you details, and pass anything she can’t finish to a person.
You bring the authors and make the decisions. Your agent publishes their books, from formatting and covers to distribution, audiobooks, royalties and tax forms, all included in your plan. And the $800 to $1,000 a publishing service would charge for each book is yours to keep.
Founding licensees: $500 setup instead of $1,500, and your monthly price locked. Plans from $99 a month.
From Bo Bennett, founder of the publishing service eBookIt.com.
Good morning. Since yesterday I answered 6 author emails, moved 2 books forward and chased a missing tax form. Nothing is late.
Two things need you:
Many people who could run an excellent small press never start one, because of the list. Trim sizes and bleed. ISBNs and metadata. EPUB validation. Distributor accounts. Quarterly royalty statements. W-9s, W-8BENs, treaty rates and 1099s. Every item is learnable, and together they're a full-time job that has nothing to do with why you love books.
The platform removes the list. You run the business. Your agent does the work.
Turning a finished manuscript into an ebook and a paperback usually costs $800 to $1,000 with a publishing service: formatting, a cover, ebook conversion and distribution. On the platform your agent does all of it, and it's included in your plan.
So that money stays with you. Charge your authors for publishing and keep all of it, or put it toward your own next book. Your only costs per book are the ISBN and, if you want one, a printed proof.
A typical day's decisions take a few minutes. Your agent never commits you to money or makes a promise to an author without asking.
An agent is superb at the production and paperwork of publishing. It proofreads and copyedits a finished manuscript (every change a tracked change the author accepts or rejects), designs the covers, formats the ebook and print editions, writes the metadata, distributes through your own store accounts and narrates the audiobook, all included in your plan. We don't sell human editing, designer covers, human narration or translation; when an author wants a hand-designed cover, you refer them to GetCovers. Every title passes a quality check before it goes to any store.
| Work | Who does it | How it's paid |
|---|---|---|
| AI proofreading and copyediting, covers (ebook, print wrap, audiobook), EPUB, print interior, metadata: everything to publish a finished manuscript as ebook and paperback | Your agent, on your ChatGPT account | Included |
| Distribution through your own IngramSpark and optional KDP accounts, author portal, royalties, tax forms, your website | Your agent | Included |
| AI-narrated audiobooks, distributed through your own InAudio account (Spotify, Apple, Google, Kobo, libraries) | Your agent, on your own AuthorVoices account | Your AuthorVoices plan |
| New-book creation from an author's own ideas, notes or recordings | The author's own BookBud or ConceptsOfABook account | You earn affiliate commission |
| A hand-designed cover, when an author wants one | GetCovers, our affiliate partner | Referral through your link |
| Marketing: AuthorPass, built into your website | Archieboy | You earn 30% of every payment |
Your press name, logo, colours and web address on everything authors see. Our name never appears.
Books are distributed through your own IngramSpark account and, if you want Amazon's higher royalty, your own KDP account. We help you set them up.
Your press is the publisher of record on every book. Your agent walks you through buying your own ISBN block.
The relationships, agreements and revenue are yours. Export everything at any time.
If you ever decide to sell your press, you're selling a real business with its own accounts, catalogue and authors.
Move the sliders. Publishing a finished manuscript is included, so your only production costs are small per-book items such as ISBNs and a printed proof.
Plans go by the number of titles in your catalogue, whether you brought them with you or published them with us. No limits on authors.
or $990 a year (two months free)
or $1,990 a year (two months free)
or $3,490 a year (two months free)
Covers building your press and bringing over up to 100 of your existing titles, with their files, metadata and royalty history. Larger backlists are $3 for each additional title.
Your agent's AI runs on a ChatGPT plan of your own, billed by OpenAI; we'll help you choose the right one.
on any plan, and your monthly price locked in for as long as you stay and your catalogue stays within your plan's title range, whatever list prices become later.
Founding licensees are set up first, work directly with Bo Bennett, and help shape what the platform does next.
Apply for a founding placeWe're opening to ten publishers first, at $500 setup instead of $1,500 and with your monthly price locked. Tell us a little about you and Bo Bennett will be in touch personally. Applying doesn't commit you to anything.
Riley is an AI agent. She can look things up, email you details, and pass anything she can’t finish to a person.