One home for indie authors
Cabins Press is one home for indie authors, from ideating a book through writing, marketing and selling it.
Who we build for
Cabins Press is built for three kinds of authors.
- Authors who want to control their audience and sell independently of publishers and retail outlets.
- Authors overwhelmed by the number of tools they use who want one source of truth for their data.
- Authors who want their manuscripts kept away from large language models.
Why Cabins Press exists
Indie authors put up with a lot from the SaaS tools they use today. Cabins Press is built to be better to use than that stack.
It replaces a stack of separate tools with one, so authors are not stitching their business together themselves.
Manuscripts never reach AI. No AI. Ever.
Cabins Press guides authors through the full lifecycle of publishing a book, not just one piece of it.
No venture capital sits behind Cabins Press, so no investor is shaping its product or pricing decisions.
Consolidating the stack also means indie authors spend less on SaaS overall.
The whole lifecycle in one place
Cabins Press covers a book from the first idea to the sale, in one place.
- Ideating and writing, with a built-in editor, writing sprints and space for planning notes.
- Producing the book, with an in-app formatter that turns a manuscript into an EPUB and a print-ready PDF, and print fulfilled through the BookVault integration.
- Building an audience, with newsletters and email cadences.
- Getting ready to launch, with ARC campaigns for early reviews.
- Selling, with an author website and store, pre-release support, and the data needed to set up Goodreads author and book pages.
- Staying in touch with readers, with a built-in blog and built-in site metrics.
Readers are part of it
The Cabins Press Reader app delivers ARCs securely, so they cannot be leaked.
It also carries a direct ebook sales channel, an alternative for authors who do not want Kindle Unlimited exclusivity and the risk of losing their account there.
What we commit to
A few things about Cabins Press will not change.
- Cabins Press will never be VC-backed. It is a grassroots company, funded personally by its founders and builders.
- No platform fee until your sales pass $5,000 in a month.
- Cabins Press will not resell your data.
- No AI. Ever.