Your authors sign their contracts and accept or reject your edits in Magpie. Readers pre-order each title, and bookshops buy it at your trade discount.

Yes. A Kanban board can hold the list, with a column for each stage of production. Each title is a card with a due date and the editor it is assigned to. A To-do on a card, such as sending proofs, can have a date and a reminder.

Yes. A Form can ask for a cover letter and a synopsis. A File question takes the sample chapters as a PDF of up to 10 MB. Authors send it without signing up first. You close the form when the reading period ends.

Yes. Your contract, as a PDF, becomes a starter with the author's fields and yours in place. The author signs first, from the email, without signing in. Then you countersign. Magpie will email you both a link to the signed PDF and a certificate of completion.

Yes. An imported Word file keeps its comments, and its tracked changes become suggestions. Your own edits are suggestions too, and your queries are comments. The author accepts or rejects each change, and whoever suggested it is told which. A clean Word export leaves them out.

Yes. You invite the author to that manuscript by email address, to suggest changes or to edit. They join the team as a guest who can open that document and nothing else. An address with no Magpie account gets a free one when they accept.

Yes. You invite them to that manuscript alone, as you would an author. Before each round, you can save a named version, such as Before copyedit. Restoring a version keeps the later work in the history. The document also has its own chat, beside the text.

Yes. Books lays out each title in serif or sans type. It adds chapter numbers, page numbers and running heads. The trim size can be 5 by 8, 6 by 9 or 7 by 10 inches. A chapter pasted from the edited manuscript keeps its italics and headings.

Yes. The PDF is laid out at the trim size, each chapter on a new page. You save it from the browser's print dialog. Secure Files can send it by a link that expires, with a passphrase if you choose.

Yes. Books downloads an EPUB 3 file with the title, author, language, contents and cover. About this book becomes its description. Pictures from your image library are packed into it. Typographer's punctuation gives the EPUB and the PDF curly quotes.

Book Settings has a field for the ISBN. It is printed on the copyright page, beside the publisher and the edition. In the online shop, each edition has a barcode field that takes its ISBN. A 13-digit barcode is given to search engines as the product's GTIN.

Yes. The paperback keeps selling before its stock arrives, with publication day as its expected ship date. Readers see that date from the product page to their order emails. They pay when they order, and pre-orders have their own tab. The print run counts up from below zero when it arrives.

Yes. An ebook is a download, with the EPUB and the PDF as editions, each up to 500 MB. Readers download theirs from their order page or the confirmation email. The product can go live at a date and time you set, such as publication morning. A replaced file reaches everyone who bought it.

Yes. The print run is a purchase order to your printer, at its cost per copy. You download it as a PDF, or email it from Magpie. Receiving the delivery adds the copies to stock. The printer's bill can then go into your accounts, owed until you pay it.

Yes. You give each edition a reorder point. When its available stock falls to it, Magpie will email you. Readers can ask to be emailed when a sold-out title is back. When the reprint arrives, each of them gets one email.

Yes. You record a stock change for the copies you send, with Other as the reason. You say what happened, such as Review copies. The stock history lists it with who recorded it. With two stock locations, you choose which one they left.

Yes. A CSV file of up to 5,000 rows adds your titles, one row for each edition. A row carries the ISBN as its barcode, the price and the stock. The import lists what it will add before anything changes. New titles come in as drafts.

Yes. A bookshop applies from your shop's Wholesale page, signed in to Magpie, and you approve it. Its price list can take a percentage off every title, such as 40%. It sees those prices at your shop's Magpie address. Everyone else sees your cover prices.

Yes. A bookshop's invoice can be due on receipt or 7, 14, 30, 45, 60 or 90 days after it is sent. Magpie will email it with a Pay online button. On the invoice's page, you can turn on reminders, which stop once it is paid. When it is paid in full, the order will be marked paid.

Yes. Your shop's reports list each title's units, sales and margin between any two dates. By variant splits them by edition, such as hardcover and paperback. An order counts on the day it was paid. Each table downloads as a CSV file.

Yes. Contacts holds them all, tagged as you choose, and a tag filters the list. An author's page lists the contracts they signed. A bookshop's page lists every invoice billed to it. A follow-up with a date and a reason becomes a To-do.

Yes. Newsletter keeps the press's list, with a sign-up page and double opt-in. Readers can also tick a box at checkout to join. You write the email, send yourself a test and schedule it for publication morning. A sent email can have a web copy to share.

Yes. The launch goes on your public calendar, with RSVPs up to a capacity you set. Its page will say when it is full. People RSVP with a Magpie account, and can make one there. Sharing the event starts a social media post about it.

Yes. Outreach sends each person a short series of emails from your own email address. They go out one at a time, inside the hours you set. Each email can open with a line you wrote for that person. A reply stops the series for them, and arrives in your mailbox.

Magpie adds no fee to your online sales or to invoices paid online. Stripe's processing fee is taken from each card payment. The rest goes to your press's own Stripe account.