Long-running web app for privately sharing manuscripts, tracking beta-reader progress and organising feedback in one place.
- Availability
- Global
- Platforms
- Web
- Access model
- Free · Freemium
- Status
- Active
Authors & PublishingARC & Review Distribution
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Beta-reading and manuscript-feedback platform for authors, publishers and invited readers, with web and mobile reading, progress tracking and inline feedback.
- Availability
- Global
- Platforms
- Android · Web · iOS
- Access model
- Unknown
- Status
- Active
Authors & PublishingARC & Review Distribution
Bookish community and publishing platform built around tastemakers, curated bookshelves, book clubs, paid memberships and tastemaker-led publishing imprints.
- Availability
- Global
- Platforms
- Android · Web · iOS
- Access model
- Free
- Status
- Active
Authors & PublishingBook Clubs & Buddy Reading+2 more
Beta-reading platform that helps authors securely share manuscripts, match with readers and collect structured feedback before publication.
- Availability
- Global
- Platforms
- Web
- Access model
- Unknown
- Status
- Active
Authors & PublishingARC & Review Distribution
Book discovery and marketing platform known for personalised deal alerts, new-release notifications and author-following.
- Availability
- Global
- Platforms
- Web
- Access model
- Free
- Status
- Active
Authors & PublishingDiscovery & Recommendations+1 more
New web-novel platform for reader discovery and author publishing, engagement, analytics and monetisation while authors retain ownership of their work.
- Availability
- Global
- Platforms
- Web
- Access model
- Free
- Status
- Active
Authors & PublishingDiscovery & Recommendations+2 more
Author-focused ebook and audiobook delivery platform widely used for reader magnets, ARCs, direct-sales fulfilment and promotions.
- Availability
- Global
- Platforms
- Web
- Access model
- Subscription
- Status
- Active
Authors & PublishingEbooks & E-reading+1 more
Independent organisation that works with publishers to verify human-written books and build an 'Organic Literature' market with a reader-facing publisher directory and title verification.
- Availability
- Global
- Platforms
- Web
- Access model
- Paid / Other
- Status
- Active
Discovery & RecommendationsAuthors & Publishing
ARC and review platform that helps authors and publishers distribute review copies, find reviewers, manage ARC teams and track reviews.
- Availability
- Not yet verified
- Platforms
- Web
- Access model
- Free · One-time Purchase
- Status
- Active
Authors & PublishingARC & Review Distribution
ARC and review-copy platform for authors and publishers, combining reviewer discovery, ARC-team management, automatic distribution and review follow-up.
- Availability
- Global
- Platforms
- Web
- Access model
- Free · Freemium
- Status
- Active
Authors & PublishingARC & Review Distribution
Netherlands/Belgium Discovery
Dutch/Belgian 2026 swipe discovery and reading app with friends, reading groups, reviews, imports, author pages and free author/publisher partner tools.
- Availability
- Europe
- Platforms
- iOS · Android
- Access model
- Free
- Status
- Active
Authors & Publishing
Open-source desktop ebook manager for organising libraries, converting formats, editing metadata and sending books to devices.
- Availability
- Global
- Platforms
- Linux · Windows · macOS
- Access model
- Free
- Status
- Active
Library & CataloguingAuthors & Publishing+1 more
Major industry ARC/catalog distribution platform alongside NetGalley, widely used by publishers.
- Availability
- Not yet verified
- Platforms
- Web
- Access model
- Unknown
- Status
- Active
Authors & PublishingARC & Review Distribution
Kenyan publishing platform launched 2012 providing accessible digital content, with a focus on accessibility for readers with disabilities.
- Availability
- Africa
- Platforms
- Web · iOS · Android
- Access model
- Unknown
- Status
- Active
Ebooks & E-readingAuthors & Publishing
Secure beta-reader management platform for authors to share manuscripts, track reading progress and consolidate chapter-by-chapter feedback.
- Availability
- Global
- Platforms
- Web
- Access model
- Subscription
- Status
- Active
Authors & PublishingARC & Review Distribution
ARC and reader-review service focused on indie authors, with genre-targeted reader teams and review campaigns.
- Availability
- Global
- Platforms
- Web
- Access model
- One-time Purchase
- Status
- Active
Authors & PublishingARC & Review Distribution
Social reading and writing community positioned as a more expressive alternative to Goodreads, with rich-text/Markdown posts and reader profiles.
- Availability
- Global
- Platforms
- Web
- Access model
- Free
- Status
- Active
Authors & PublishingDiscovery & Recommendations+2 more
End-to-end encrypted platform for sharing unpublished and pre-publication manuscripts with alpha, beta and ARC readers inside an AI-free, human-verified book community.
- Availability
- Global
- Platforms
- Web
- Access model
- Free
- Status
- Beta / Early Access
Authors & PublishingBook Clubs & Buddy Reading+5 more
Authors Guild
Certification and public verification system allowing authors and publishers to register books as human-authored and readers to verify a title, author or certification number.
- Availability
- North America, UK & Ireland
- Platforms
- Web
- Access model
- Free · One-time Purchase
- Status
- Active
Discovery & RecommendationsAuthors & Publishing
Society of Authors
UK Human Authored labelling and register scheme run by the Society of Authors in partnership with the US Authors Guild, enabling authors to identify qualifying books as human-created and readers to search registered works.
- Availability
- Not yet verified
- Platforms
- Web
- Access model
- Free
- Status
- Active
Discovery & RecommendationsAuthors & Publishing
Reader-powered fiction platform where authors publish stories and readers discover and engage with free fiction; reader behaviour also informs titles selected for publication through the wider Inkitt ecosystem.
- Availability
- Global
- Platforms
- Web · iOS · Android
- Access model
- Free · Subscription
- Status
- Active
Serialized & Web FictionAuthors & Publishing+2 more
Rakuten-owned global ebook and audiobook ecosystem with apps, ereaders, subscriptions and author self-publishing via Kobo Writing Life.
- Availability
- Global
- Platforms
- Web · Windows · macOS
- Access model
- Free · Subscription
- Status
- Active
Ebooks & E-readingLibrary & Cataloguing+2 more
Digital review-copy platform connecting publishers and authors with reviewers, booksellers, librarians, educators, journalists and other book advocates.
- Availability
- Global
- Platforms
- Web
- Access model
- Free · Paid / Other
- Status
- Active
Ebooks & E-readingAudiobooks+2 more
Book-club and recommendation platform with personalised discovery, club management, shelves, goals and publisher-facing promotional tools.
- Availability
- Global
- Platforms
- Android · Web · iOS
- Access model
- Free
- Status
- Active
Authors & PublishingBook Clubs & Buddy Reading+3 more
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