A person reads your book
Every title passes an automated pre-check and a review by a person before it appears under our name.
About the publisher
ShelfPublisher is run by Orbita Media, an international publishing house with more than 1,000 published titles
Behind the platform is a registered publishing house with its own ISBN block, more than 1,000 titles published internationally and hundreds of authors. ShelfPublisher is how we open our channels to self-published authors.
Who we are: Orbita Media GmbH, Ericusspitze 4, 20457 Hamburg, Germany. Registered at the Amtsgericht Hamburg under HRB 161613, VAT ID DE328578764, managing directors Noah Malik and Stefan Schott. ISBN publisher prefixes 978-3-69104 and 978-3-69296.
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Facts you can check
A publisher on the record
Registered companyAmtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 161613. Full details in the legal notice.
Own ISBN blockPublisher prefixes 978-3-69104 and 978-3-69296. Every ShelfPublisher title carries one of them.
1,000+ titlesPublished internationally by Orbita Media, with hundreds of authors.
Servers in GermanyHosted by Hetzner in Nuremberg. Payments are processed by Stripe.
Why ShelfPublisher
Don't be a self-publisher. Be a shelf-publisher.
Self-publishing gave authors control and took away the shelf. A book on one platform is easy to publish and hard to find anywhere else, because bookstores and libraries order from wholesale catalogs, through publishers.
We built ShelfPublisher to close that gap without turning authors into publishing companies. You keep your rights and your voice; we bring the imprint, the ISBN and the catalogs.
How we work
What you can expect from us
Clear money
One slot per book, 30% of the net revenue, quarterly statements, payouts from €200.
Reachable
Support tickets in the portal and [email protected].
Questions
About the company
Who is the publisher of my book?
The publisher is Orbita Media GmbH, Ericusspitze 4, 20457 Hamburg, Germany. That is the name that appears as publisher in the book's bibliographic record and in the catalogs booksellers search, and the ISBN comes from Orbita's publisher prefixes (978-3-69104 and 978-3-69296).
You remain the author, and the copyright stays with you. More about the company on the page About the publisher.
Who owns the ISBN?
The ISBN comes from the block registered to Orbita Media as publisher, and it stays with Orbita Media. Under the ISBN standard an ISBN identifies the publisher of an edition, so it cannot move with the book.
It costs you nothing. If you publish the book elsewhere after the contract ends, the new edition needs a new ISBN. The article ISBN for self-published books explains why.
Where is my data stored, and who processes payments?
Our servers are in Germany (Hetzner, Nuremberg). Payments are processed by Stripe; we never see your full card details. Which providers we use and why is listed in our privacy policy.
How do I reach you?
Inside the portal through support tickets, and by email at [email protected]. Before you have an account, the access request is the way to ask us anything.
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