Your online bookstore. Live in 5 minutes.
Not a marketplace stall. Not a $39 generic Shopify box. Your own store, built only for books, with ISBN listings, condition grading, and Stripe payouts. $0 a month, and if you sell face to face, we don't take a cent.
$0/month · 15% only on online sales · Sell in person, keep 100%
Bookshops don't die from a lack of books. They die from rent.
Books change hands five ways. Pick your door.
Authors
Sell your own titles direct. The margin and the reader’s email both stay with you.
Learn moreBookshop owners
New stock and used trade-ins, one inventory, one back office. Close the register, the website stays open.
Learn moreUsed & vintage bookstores
ISBN lookup and five condition grades, built for secondhand. List a box of estate-sale finds before your chai goes cold.
Learn moreCommunity stand stewards
A little free library with real inventory, borrow reminders, and co-stewards. Free forever.
Learn moreGarage sale & pop-up sellers
Scan, price, sell local, keep 100%. The only stall fee is zero.
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Type the ISBN. The listing writes itself.
Every other platform makes you retype what's already printed on the back of the book. On BookStand the ISBN pulls the title, author, cover, and page count. You pick one of five condition grades, set a price, done.
- ISBN autofills title, author, cover, and pages
- Five condition grades buyers actually trust
- First listing live in about 5 minutes
Your storefront, your domain, your customers.
A marketplace listing is a stall in someone else's mall. They set the rules, keep the customer, and can move your shelf to the basement whenever they like. Your BookStand storefront has your name over the door, and the Website tool puts it on your own domain with pages and a blog.
- A storefront page the moment you sign up
- Your own domain, pages, and blog from $5/mo
- Buyer emails stay with you, for the next sale
Online, we take 15%. Across the counter, nothing.
Sell a $20 book through your online store and you keep $16.12 after our cut and Stripe's. Hand the same book to a neighbor for cash and you keep $20.00, because charging you for a sale we didn't touch would be rude.
- $0 a month, no listing fees, no caps
- 15% only on online sales, Stripe payouts straight to your bank
- In-person, pickup, and local sales: keep 100%
Offers, returns, shipping, payouts. Handled.
Selling the book is the fun part. The other 90% is “would you take $12,” printing labels, and refund emails, so the toolkit does that part: offer threads with your floor price built in, returns policies, shipping profiles you set once.
- Offers and counter-offers, with your floor price set in advance
- Returns policies and reusable shipping profiles
- Ebook buyers read instantly in the browser, included free
Start with the store. Bolt on the rest when it earns it.
Store
List, sell, ship, get paid. New and used books in one inventory.
Free + 15% onlineWebsite
Your own domain, pages, and a blog that sells your shelves.
From $5/moCommunity Stand
Run a little free library with real inventory and borrow reminders.
Free foreverReader
Buyers read purchased ebooks in the browser, seconds after checkout.
IncludedThe other options are fine, if you're selling phone cases. You're selling books.
A year from now, you could have a bookstore.
Or still be posting book photos on Instagram.
Five minutes to your first listing. Zero dollars a month. The books are already on your shelf, they're just not for sale yet.
No card. No contract. Nothing to cancel, because nothing costs anything yet.