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Suspension without warning
A retail account can be closed at any time, with no detailed explanation. Reviews, ranking and income disappear with it.
Real risk
Wholesale distribution for self publishers
Your book on bookshop shelves, not just a listing.
Orbita Media is a publishing house. Your title goes out under our imprint, into the same wholesale channels the big houses use: over 50,000 bookshops in Germany, France, Spain, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and a dozen more countries. No ads to buy, no reviews to chase, no account to lose.
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You buy a publishing slot. No printing costs, no listing fees, no ISBN to buy.
The problem with going it alone
A platform can give you reach.
A platform can give you reach.
It can take it away tomorrow.
Thousands of authors a year lose accounts, listings and royalties overnight. Every hour of work, every euro of marketing, gone in one click.
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You do all the marketing
A digital shelf is not a bookshop. Without ads, a mailing list and constant content, the book simply is not seen.
Hidden cost03
One channel, not the market
Online retail is a share of book sales, not all of it. Physical shops and the rest of the trade stay out of reach.
Lost market04
Reviews decide everything
No reviews, no sales. No sales, no reviews. A loop that only rewards authors who already have an audience.
No scale05
Royalties set by someone else
Rates, thresholds and payout rules are written by the platform, and they change. You negotiate nothing.
Dependency06
Never in a physical shop
Print on demand for one retailer does not enter the wholesale catalogues that booksellers actually order from.
No standing
What we do instead
The channels of a real publishing house. Without being part of one.
Your book is published under our imprint, with our ISBN, into the wholesale networks booksellers order from every day. You write. We handle the trade.
Get started Invitation only
Everywhere, Amazon included
Over 50,000 bookshops in Germany, France, Spain, the US, the UK, Canada and beyond. Chains, independents and the online shops that never carry a self published title. Amazon stays: you gain the rest of the market, you lose nothing.
Not one account away from nothing
Your book is published under our imprint, with our ISBN, and it lives in the trade catalogues. There is no single retail account whose suspension takes your title, your reviews and your income with it.
30% of net profit, and no costs after the slot
You pay for the slot and nothing else: no printing costs, no listing fees, no ISBN to buy, no distribution fee. Sales reports every quarter, paid out from your wallet whenever you ask.
You write, we do the trade
No ads, no social, no mailing list, no metadata to file, no printer to negotiate with. Wholesale distribution works through the catalogues booksellers order from, not through your reach.
No reviews needed to start
Booksellers buy from professional catalogues. Your ranking does not decide whether a shop can order your book, and a book with no reviews is orderable on day one.
A publisher, not a portal
Over 1,000 titles published internationally, hundreds of authors, millions in royalties paid out. The same people, the same catalogues and the same distribution contracts your book goes into.
Where your book goes
In a bookshop. In every corner of the world.
Worldwide, Amazon accounts for roughly a third to a half of book sales. The rest happens in chains, independents and online shops that never see a self published title at all. That is the half we open for you.
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Bookshops reached
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Main markets, plus more worldwide
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Titles published by us
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Of net profit to you, no printing costs
US
27,000+
United States
UK
9,500+
United Kingdom
DE
6,800+
Germany
FR
4,200+
France
ES
3,100+
Spain
CA
1,400+
Canada
+
12 more
Worldwide, print on demand
Side by side
Publishing alone, or publishing with us.
What it takes
On your own
With Orbita
Physical bookshops
Out of reach
Wholesale catalogues
Advertising budget
Required, monthly
None
Reviews to get started
Decide everything
Not part of it
Risk of losing the listing
One account, one click
Published under our imprint
ISBN and metadata
Your problem
Issued and filed by us
What you pay
Ads, tools, time
One slot per book
How it works
Four steps from manuscript to bookshop.
Buy a slot
One slot publishes one book. The more you take, the less each one costs.
Upload your files
Interior PDF and cover, with the trim size and paper you choose. We check both automatically.
We publish it
You get an ISBN, we file the metadata and the title enters the wholesale catalogues.
You get paid
Sales reports every quarter, 30% of the net profit, paid out from your wallet whenever you ask.
Pricing
One payment per book. Nothing after that.
One slot publishes one book. No printing costs, no listing fees, no ISBN to buy, no distribution fee, no cut of your marketing.
Prices include German VAT. Business customers with a valid VAT number, and customers outside the EU, see the adjusted total at checkout.
“A bookshop cannot order a book it has never been offered. Distribution is not marketing. It is the part that decides whether the book exists at all.”
Orbita Media GmbH · Hamburg
Over 1,000 titles published internationally, hundreds of authors, millions in royalties paid out.
Your book belongs on a shelf.
Create an account, buy your first slot and upload your manuscript. We take it from there.
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