Authors & Publishers

Interested in selling your content on Kobo? If you own the digital rights to your content - be it one title, a thousand titles, or more - we can make it happen.

Choose your business model

As an author or publisher you’ll receive 50% of your suggested retail price for every sale made on Kobo. In addition you’ll determine how many chapters you’d like to offer for free and whether you’d like to generate additional revenue by having ads run alongside your work. Hoping to get some extra eyeballs on a particular title? Why not offer it for free for a week (or month) and have it appear on our Free Books list. Self-published author? We’ll treat you like a publisher too!

Protect your content

Kobo supports Digital Rights Management capable of preventing unauthorized use, copying, sharing, or printing of your works. Kobo uses its own DRM for mobile and web reading. For offline, desktop reading and eInk devices, Kobo uses Adobe Content Server and Adobe Digital Editions to protect both ePub and PDF files.

Sell in one country or around the world

With users in 190 countries, Kobo is the leader in managing publisher territorial rights. Using ONIX or our Excel title information templates, you can restrict sales to a particular territory or make them available to the world!

Sign-up quickly and easily

Just contact us at content@kobobooks.com to set up an account and start bringing your content to a whole new audience of readers on the go. We’ll send you our Publisher’s Agreement for review and begin discussion to determine how best to receive and process your ePub files. Is your content in some format other than ePub? Then perhaps you’d like to take advantage of our…

ePub Conversion Service

At Kobo we only accept ePub files for sale. ePub allows us to provide a consistent reading experience on screens and devices of any size. But just because your content exists in some other format (ex. PDF, Word, XML, Quark) doesn’t mean we can’t sell it. We’ll take your files and convert them into properly structured ePubs and, because we only charge you what it costs us to convert your content, it may cost you as little as $29 (or $22.50 for OEB and XML files) per title. On top of that we’ll provide you a copy of each ePub file which becomes yours to use as you see fit. Drop us a line at conversion@kobobooks.com to find out more about the program.