The author platform built around the book — not the algorithm.
For authors building a direct readership. For publishers running campaigns across a roster.
One workspace
Replaces Calendly, Zoom, Mailchimp, Shopify, Patreon, and Goodreads-Author with a single integrated console.
Audience portability
Subscribers, Q&A history, gift relationships, and clubs all live with the author. Exportable. Yours.
Direct monetization
Signed copies, reader gifts, and Stripe Connect payouts — revenue that doesn't exist in the wholesale/royalty model.
Why Readfeed is structurally different
Existing tools ask authors to choose between commerce, community, audience, or analytics. Readfeed unifies all four — natively wired to the book.
| PLATFORM | WHAT IT GIVES YOU | WHAT'S MISSING |
|---|---|---|
| Substack | Audience, newsletter | No commerce, no community, not book-native |
| Patreon | Direct revenue | No book context, no reader analytics |
| Goodreads | Reader social graph | No monetization, no audience ownership |
| Amazon KDP | Distribution, royalties | No audience ownership, no direct engagement |
| Readfeed | All of the above, tied to the book | — |
Community: Clubs, Live, Calendar
Author-hosted book clubs with native LiveKit streaming, recurring scheduling, and a unified calendar. Readers come for the book; they stay for the author.
My Clubs
Create clubs you own; invite specific readers; share a public link.
Schedule meetings
One-off or recurring sessions with auto-shared join links.
Go Live
Native LiveKit video — author readings, AMAs, launch parties.
Calendar
Month grid aggregating every meeting across every club.
Run owned community instead of renting reach from algorithmic platforms.
Spin up campaign-specific clubs (launch tour, ARC reader program) per title or imprint.
Replaces Zoom + Calendly + Eventbrite for author events.
Audience: Subscribers, Q&A, Announcements, Messages
Every reader interaction is tied to the book and the reader's reading state — not to a generic social handle.
Subscribers
Searchable list with growth stats. Export to CSV any time.
Reader Q&A
Filterable inbox by source (club / direct), with answer & dismiss flows.
Announcements
Broadcast updates natively to subscribed Readfeed readers.
Messages
Direct line to readers without exposing personal email.
You own the relationship — not Amazon, not Goodreads, not the algorithm.
First-party reader data per title, per author, per imprint — useful for acquisitions, marketing, and back-list strategy.
Subscribers are portable. Q&A is structured. Announcements ship instantly.
Commerce: Signed Copies, Gifts, Stripe Connect
Margin that doesn't exist in the standard wholesale/royalty model — handled end-to-end inside Readfeed.
Signed listings
Set price, shipping, region, max quantity, and personalization.
Order workspace
Filter by status, ship with tracking, cancel — full fulfillment view.
Reader gifts
Tipping on every public author profile; history and per-profile stats.
Stripe Connect
Per-author payout accounts with platform-level reporting.
Direct-to-reader revenue without a Shopify subscription or a Patreon cut.
Per-author Stripe payouts, clean revenue split, and tax separation across an entire roster.
Signed copies. Tipping. Payouts. All native.
Roster, catalog, and campaign tooling
Everything an author gets, multiplied across an imprint — with the verification, attribution, and analytics rollups publishing operations require.
Multi-author roster
Onboard a stable of authors into a consistent CMS with the same workspace shell, same payouts topology, same brand.
Verified catalog mapping
Author book-claim workflow links each author to their titles in the Readfeed catalog — provable authorship for analytics rollups.
Campaign infrastructure
Per-title launch clubs, ARC reader programs, signed first editions, reader Q&A, and live events — assembled from the same primitives.
First-party reader data
Engagement, gifts, subscribers, and reviews — tied to the book entity, not to a social handle.