Your books deserve more than a listing.
Build your author presence, showcase your books, reach readers, grow an audience you own, understand reader interest, improve your discoverability, run review-copy campaigns and give approved readers access through BookNami Reader. Core author tools are free.
No subscription for the author tools on this page
BookNami's core author tools are free to use. Optional AI-powered generation uses AI credits, and purchases from independent professionals or other third-party services are separate.
Everything readers need to find you and follow you
Your profile, your books, your updates and your reviews — connected to readers who are already browsing.
A free author profile
A public author page with your photo, banner, bio, links, books and series — free to create and free to keep.
Explore authorsBooks and series you control
Add and manage your books, set metadata and covers, group them into series in reading order and add your retailer links.
Discover booksDiscovery beyond a title search
Readers find books through genres, topics, themes, tropes, series, lists and search — so your book has more than one way to be found.
Browse tropesUpdates that reach followers
Publish updates from your dashboard and they reach the readers who follow you, in their feed and their notifications.
Followers and newsletter subscribers
Readers follow you on BookNami and can subscribe to your newsletter from your public profile — two different audiences, both useful.
Reader reviews
Reviews from real reader profiles on your book pages, plus review activity you can track campaign by campaign.
Build an email list that's yours
Readers can subscribe to your newsletter directly from your public BookNami author profile. Connect your own Moosend or Kit account and those subscribers flow into the provider you control. BookNami followers are readers who follow you here; newsletter subscribers are yours to email wherever you go.
- Connect Moosend or Kit — the list stays in your account
- Newsletter signup on your public author profile
- Audience-growth reporting in your dashboard
Followers vs newsletter subscribers
- BookNami followers see your updates and new releases on BookNami
- Newsletter subscribers land in your own email provider
- You export and email your subscribers on your terms
- BookNami does not own or rent your mailing list
BookNami is not an email service provider. It's where the audience comes from.
Understand what readers are interested in — for your books
Pulse turns activity on your own pages into reader-interest signals: how your audience is growing, which of your books draw the most attention, the paths readers take to reach you and what to look at next. Pulse is scoped to you — it never exposes individual readers' private details.
- Reader interest signals for your own titles
- Audience growth and top-performing books
- Aggregate only — no private reader information
What Pulse shows you
- Interest signals across your author and book pages
- Which books and series pull the most attention
- How readers arrive at your pages
- Recommended actions based on your own activity
Compass shows what to work on next
Compass scores your BookNami presence by category, tracks the milestones you've reached and gives you a short list of next steps based on what you have actually done — not generic advice. Ask Compass answers questions about your own account; new authors get a few free questions, after that it uses AI credits.
- Success score by category with clear next steps
- Milestones, celebrations and monthly summaries
- Ask Compass: introductory free questions, then AI credits
Guidance grounded in your account
- Score broken down by profile, catalogue, audience and discoverability
- Next steps ordered by what will help most
- Milestones as your presence fills out
- Ask Compass for questions about your own BookNami activity
Built for discovery beyond BookNami
Your public pages are server-rendered so search engines and other machines can read them without running JavaScript. BookNami helps search engines understand your pages — it can't promise rankings.
Technically crawlable by default
- Server-rendered public author, book and series pages
- Canonical URLs and clean metadata
- JSON-LD structured data and breadcrumbs
- Sitemap inclusion and internal linking
- Social sharing metadata for links you post
See what's holding a page back
- Public status and indexability checks
- Missing or thin metadata and descriptions
- Content completeness on author and book pages
- Structured-data and linking gaps
- A prioritised list you can work through
How your pages actually perform
- Clicks, impressions, CTR and average position
- Top pages and search terms for your own pages
- Daily trends where data is available
- No Search Console setup needed — BookNami reports on its own verified property
Search data appears once Google has collected enough of it for your pages.
Deliver review copies readers can actually open
Upload an EPUB or PDF and approved readers open it inside BookNami Reader from My Reading — no download, no third-party app, no format support questions. Readers can save eligible copies for offline reading and continue on a phone, tablet or computer from their saved position. Downloads happen only if you allow them.
- EPUB and PDF, read in the browser
- Offline reading for eligible copies, synced when they reconnect
- You decide whether downloading is allowed
Review-copy delivery on your terms
- Approve exactly which readers get access
- Deliver through BookNami Reader instead of loose files
- Aggregate campaign progress and completion
- Revoke access when a campaign ends
Readers' bookmarks, highlights and notes stay private. You see aggregate progress only.
How a review-copy campaign works
From creating the campaign to the review, every step happens inside BookNami.
- Create a review-copy campaign
- Upload your EPUB or PDF
- Deliver through BookNami Reader
- Readers apply
- You approve the readers you want
- Approved readers open the book in My Reading
- They read online, or save it for offline reading
- Aggregate progress feeds your campaign analytics
- Reader finishes and moves into the review step
Free core tools, transparent about what costs
You do not need AI credits to use BookNami's core platform. AI generation is optional.
Core BookNami author features
- Author profile, books, series and retailer links
- Updates, followers and newsletter signup
- Reader reviews and review-copy campaigns
- BookNami Reader delivery, online and offline
- Pulse, Compass guidance, Discoverability Health
- Google Search Performance reporting
Optional extras
- AI generation — drafting, AI SEO helpers, Ask Compass beyond the free questions
- Bring your own provider key instead of buying credits
- Hiring an independent professional through the marketplace
- Third-party services, payment processing and printing bought elsewhere
BookNami's core author tools are free to use. Optional AI-powered generation uses AI credits, and purchases from independent professionals or other third-party services are separate.
Find publishing professionals
Editors, cover designers, formatters, marketers and more. Switch to client mode on the same account — hiring is a separate transaction from BookNami's free author tools.
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Post a job
Describe the work, budget and timeline.
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Receive proposals
Interested professionals send proposals you can compare.
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Hire
Pick the professional you want and award the work.
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Fund the milestone
Funds are held by BookNami for the milestone before work starts.
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Review the work
Everything happens in one shared project workspace.
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Release funds
Approve the milestone and the funds are released.
Browse before you commit
- Service packages by category with clear scope
- Verified-only filtering and availability
- Proposals you can compare side by side
- Funds held by BookNami until you approve the milestone
You don't need a second account
- Author, reader, client and professional on the same login
- Switch View moves you between roles
- Role-aware dashboards, navigation and notifications
Why authors choose BookNami
Presence and audience
- Public author presence and book listings
- Reader discovery by genre, topic, theme, trope and series
- Followers and author updates
- Newsletter growth into your own email provider
- Reader reviews on your book pages
Insight and delivery
- BookNami Pulse™ reader interest signals
- BookNami Compass™ guidance and milestones
- Discoverability Health and Google Search Performance
- Review-copy campaigns with BookNami Reader delivery
- Online and offline reading for approved readers
- Publishing professionals when you need them
Frequently asked questions
Create your free author profile.
Free profile, free book and series pages, free campaigns and BookNami Reader delivery. Paid only where optional AI credits or hiring are involved.