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Sell on Pacific Leaf Printing
List on the Pacific Leaf Bookstore in a few clicks. The fastest way to make your book available, with up to 80% revenue share and no exclusivity.
How it works
Authors & creators
Create, publish, and sell books
Self-publish your books with Pacific Leaf Printing's publishing platform. Print on demand with no minimum order, sell through your own storefront or global retail, and keep the rights, the margin and the customer.
- No minimum order, no setup fee
- You keep 100% of your rights
interior_final.pdf
312 pages · 6×9 in
312 pages · 6×9 in
cover_wrap.pdfSpine 0.71 in — auto-calculated
PreflightAll checks passed
Interior PDF
Word, InDesign or Affinity template
Cover PDF
Or build one in the cover designer
Bleed OK300 DPIFonts embedded
Confirm & Publish
Step one
First, self-publish your book. Then sell it.
Before you can sell your books using Pacific Leaf Printing's selling options, you need to publish one. Upload a print-ready interior PDF, then use our free cover designer — or bring your own. Preflight runs automatically before anything is charged.
- Free interior templates and cover designer
- Automatic spine width from your page count
- Free Pacific Leaf ISBN, or bring your own imprint
Selling options
Sell your book, your way
At Pacific Leaf Printing, we offer authors and creators three ways to sell. Choose the one that fits your audience, your business model and how hands-on you want to be.
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Sell direct
Sell from your own site with Shopify, Wix, WooCommerce or our Print API. You own the storefront, the margin and the customer relationship.
How it works
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Sell with retail distribution
List your book with over 40,000 online retailers and libraries, including Amazon, Ingram, Kobo and Apple Books.
How it works
Sell on the Pacific Leaf Bookstore
The fastest way to sell your book
Make your book available immediately after publishing by listing it on the Pacific Leaf Bookstore. No product page to build, and you'll earn up to 80% revenue on each sale.
Speed to market
Your title is live and orderable the moment it passes preflight — no retailer review queue, no wait.
Endless options
Every trim, binding, paper and ink combination in the catalogue is available to list, with no restrictions.
Free to publish
No fee to list and no fee to keep a title live. You only ever pay the manufacturing cost of books that sell.
Illusions in Sherwood
Paperback · 6×9 · 312pp
In stockShips in 3 days
Your revenue share80%
Revenue
More profit, fewer restrictions
Publish your book for free on the Pacific Leaf Bookstore. Set your own price and make it available on the Pacific Leaf Bookstore within minutes — you won't need in-depth metadata or an ISBN to list your book, and you won't need to wait around for retailers to review and approve your listing.
- Up to 80% revenue share on every sale
- Set and change your list price whenever you like
- Customer email addresses are shared with you
Earnings
How much money can I make?
With Pacific Leaf Printing, you set your own retail price, giving you full control over how much you earn. You'll earn 80% on every sale, after printing costs. Here's an example, based on a 312-page paperback at a $19.99 list price.
Retail price$19.99
Print cost (312pp B&W)−$7.36
Pacific Leaf share (20%)−$2.53
Your revenue (80%)$10.10
A standard trade paperback royalty is 7–10% of list price.
Direct sales
Sell on your own website
Pacific Leaf Direct connects print-on-demand books to Shopify, Wix, WooCommerce, or any site with our Print API. Sell your books directly to your readers through your own site.
Keep 100% of your profit
Pacific Leaf Printing is your print and fulfillment partner, not your retailer. You manage the sale and keep all of the profit from your customers.
Automate sales & fulfillment
Print-on-demand allows you to fulfil books as they're ordered, with Pacific Leaf Printing's white-label automated platform.
Retain customer data
Because your readers are your checkout, you'll have access to their customer data to build your marketing list.
Pacific Leaf APIDirect integration
ShopifyNative app
WixNative app
WooCommercePlugin
Ecommerce
Sell on your terms
Know your customers, profit from your book, and enjoy features like white-label drop shipping, product variant support, and book bundling. Pacific Leaf Printing's flexible print-on-demand model is the most efficient way to enable direct-to-consumer sales.
- Orders sync automatically — no manual entry
- Branded packing slips and inserts in every box
- Tracking pushed back to your store and your buyer
Retail distribution
List your books with major retailers
Sell with over 40,000 online retailers and libraries, including Amazon, Ingram, Kobo and more.
Global audience
From Amazon to bricks-and-mortar bookstores, your book is available where readers already shop.
Format options
Make a book or an ebook using a wide variety of retailer-accepted formats and trim sizes.
One dashboard
Manage your book printing, publishing and sales from all channels in a single dashboard.
Amazon
Ingram
Kobo
Apple Books
Libro
Pacific Leaf
Global reach
Reach a global audience with retail distribution
Select retail distribution for your book, publish it with all necessary metadata (copyright, ISBN and description), and once your book is approved, retail sites will list it for sale. Includes print books on Amazon and available through the Ingram Network, and ebook retailers like Kobo, Apple Books and Libro.
- 40,000+ retail and library accounts
- ONIX metadata handled for you
- Your own ISBN and imprint name
Side by side
Compare Pacific Leaf Printing's selling options
Four routes to market. Most authors start with the Bookstore and add the others as they grow.
| Feature | Pacific Leaf Bookstore | Pacific Leaf Direct | Print API | Order Import |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product setup | Simple, on Pacific Leaf | Simple, on Pacific Leaf | You build it | Simple, on Pacific Leaf |
| Hands-off selling | Fully hands-off | Fully hands-off | Fully hands-off | Manual uploads |
| Order fulfillment | Automated | Automated | Fully automated | Batch uploads |
| Inventory management | None needed | None needed | None needed | None needed |
| Payout timing | Monthly, 15th | At checkout | At checkout | At checkout |
| Your profit | 80% split | You keep 100% | You keep 100% | You keep 100% |
| Customer data | Email only | Full access | Full access | Full access |
| Packaging | Pacific Leaf branded | White label | White label | White label |
| Checkout experience | On pacificleafprinting.com | On your site | On your site | On your site |
| Tech required | None | None | Developer | Spreadsheet |
Included / easy
Limited / some effort
Not included
Print cost per copy
$7.36
Plan the numbers
Book pricing calculator
Quickly check printing at a reasonable price. Check pricing, format variations, retail pricing and shipping for custom books or calendars — before you commit to anything.
Hire a pro
Support for your publishing journey
Work with vetted editors, cover designers, formatters and marketers from the Pacific Leaf partner network — people who have shipped books before.
Find a partner
Get Started
Send us your manuscript and cover and we will come back with a price, a paper recommendation and a production date. No minimum order, no setup fee.