The Platform
Your readers get a Kindle-class experience.
Your team gets the controls Amazon keeps for itself.
Publish360 is a white-label reading app — built under your brand, running on your Apple and Google developer accounts, connected to your existing website. Your readers see your name. You see their data. This page covers what each side of that looks like in practice.
Everything below ships today. Nothing on this page is a roadmap.
An app your readers will actually use.
The most common reason publisher apps fail is not the commerce or the strategy — it is the reading experience. Readers compare your app to Kindle and Apple Books on the first open. If it falls short, they don't come back. Publish360 is built to that standard.
Ebooks, audiobooks, PDFs, podcasts, video and courses — one login, one library.
Readers get a single app with a single library. Whether they bought an ebook, an audiobook, or a course, it is all in one place. They switch between reading and listening without leaving your app. They pick up on their phone exactly where they left off on their tablet. No separate apps, no re-logging in, no hunting for files.
| EPUB 3 ebook reader | Typography controls, font size, line spacing, night mode — the reading experience readers expect from the best consumer apps. |
| Audiobook player | Chaptered playback, variable speed, sleep timer and background listening. |
| PDFs | Reference guides, workbooks and supplementary documents delivered alongside ebooks and audio. |
| Video & courses | Structured courses and video content in the same library — sell a masterclass next to the book that inspired it. |
| Podcasts | Author interviews, reading groups, editorial audio — published as a native content type, not a link to an external player. |
The features readers expect. All of them.
Readers who buy direct from you are making a choice to leave a platform they already know. The app has to earn that. These are the features that make it worth it.
| Offline access | Readers download titles to read and listen without an internet connection — on planes, commutes, anywhere. |
| Cross-device sync | Progress, bookmarks and highlights sync automatically. A reader picks up on their phone exactly where they left off on their tablet or web browser. |
| Bookmarks, notes & highlights | Readers annotate as they read. Notes and highlights are stored in their library and accessible across devices. |
| Search | Full-text search across the reader's library and within individual titles. |
| Accessibility | Font size, spacing and contrast controls built in. EPUB 3 and WCAG-aware delivery, ready for the European Accessibility Act. |
Protected — but invisibly.
Your catalogue is protected by Readium LCP, the open DRM standard stewarded by EDRLab and adopted by over 100 organisations worldwide. Unlike Adobe DRM — which requires readers to create accounts, install software and enter codes — LCP works invisibly. The reader opens the book and reads.
| Readium LCP | Industry-standard encryption with no verification codes, no extra software, no friction for legitimate buyers. |
| One-time sign-in | Reader accounts and entitlements are handled by the platform. No emailed codes on every session. |
| No vendor lock-in | Open standards from DRM to EPUB 3 to data export. If you ever leave, your catalogue and your readers leave with you. |
| EDRLab membership | Eden Interactive is a member of the European Digital Reading Lab — the body that maintains LCP and the Readium open-source reading engine. |
Every past customer's library is waiting on day one.
The quiet killer of most publisher apps is the empty first screen. A reader opens the app, sees nothing they own, and closes it. Publish360 solves this before launch: we connect to your existing website, and every customer's past digital purchases are waiting in the app the moment it goes live. No re-purchasing. No CSV gymnastics. No cold start.
The controls Amazon keeps for itself.
When a reader buys through Amazon, Amazon decides the price, controls the data, and runs the promotions. Your own channel puts those decisions back in your hands — and gives your team the tools to act on them without raising a developer ticket.
Set the price. Choose the model. Change it whenever you like.
Most platforms decide your commerce model for you. Publish360 hands the decision back. You choose how each product is sold — web checkout, in-app purchase, subscription, or any combination — and you can change it at any time without a release.
| Web checkout | Zero store fees. Readers buy on your site; purchases appear in the app instantly. |
| In-app purchase (opt-in) | Where convenience converts, offer in-app purchase at Apple Small Business Program rates — 15% on revenue under $1m. |
| Multi-tier subscriptions | Custom bundles per tier, free trials, 30- or 365-day durations, billed on web or in-app. |
| Daily products | 365-day subscription products — daily devotionals, poetry, language learning, professional development — a revenue line retail channels don't have. |
| Flexible pricing | Set it, test it, change it on a Tuesday. No retailer approval, no agency-pricing detour. |
0–15% fee exposure, publisher-controlled
Against 30–65% through Amazon and 20% forever under commission models.
Your team's control room. No developer needed.
Everything your team touches day-to-day — branding, merchandising, content, analytics, subscriptions, notifications — is managed from the Publish360 Hub. Changes appear in the app immediately. No tickets, no waiting for a release, no chasing a developer.
What you control
| Branding & app appearance | Update your visual identity in the Hub; it reflects across the app immediately. |
| Merchandising & collections | Curate your homepage, create product collections, feature titles and run promotions — the way a bookseller runs a shop. |
| Content ingestion & metadata | Add new titles, update descriptions, manage formats — all from the Hub. |
| Subscription tiers & pricing | Create, edit and retire subscription products without a release. |
| Notifications & spotlights | Send push notifications and in-app spotlights from your brand, targeted to the right readers. |
| Tiered staff access | Control who on your team sees what — editorial, marketing, finance and operations each get the access they need. |
What you see
| Active, new & returning readers | Know who is reading, who has just joined, and who you are at risk of losing. |
| Completion rates | See which titles readers finish and which they abandon — the data Amazon never shares. |
| Purchase-to-first-open funnel | Understand how many buyers actually open the app, and where the drop-off is. |
| Royalty reporting | Clear revenue reporting by title, format and period. |
| Customer support queue | Reader support managed in one place, not scattered across email threads. |
Connects to what you already have.
Publish360 works alongside your existing website and systems — it does not replace them. Your readers keep buying through your existing checkout. Your catalogue syncs automatically. Your CRM, your email platform, your analytics stack — all connectable.
| Shopify & WooCommerce | Pre-built connectors for the most common publisher storefronts. |
| Custom & legacy sites | Custom and legacy websites connect via API — all within reach. |
| AI-supported marketing email | Campaigns informed by real reading behaviour — re-engagement triggered by what readers actually did, not just what they bought. |
| Platform-managed updates | App store updates are handled by the platform. Your team never chases release admin. |
Your best bookseller instincts, running 24/7.
Every play below is configured once from the Hub and then runs automatically — targeted, scheduled and capped — while your team gets on with publishing.
Your best bookseller instincts, working 24/7
Everything below is a play the platform runs for you — targeted, scheduled and capped — while your team gets on with publishing. You set the play once; the app runs it on every open, every browse, every eligible reader.
A new reader's first week decides whether they come back. The app takes care of it from the first open.
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Greet every new reader with a short, multi-step welcome that ends with them joining your readers' community — not just closing a pop-up.
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Put a free book in their hands on first open — a series starter, a sampler, a backlist favourite — so the app earns its place on their home screen immediately.
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When you ship something new, a gentle "what's new this month" walkthrough shows returning readers what to try — nobody re-learns your app from scratch.
Under the hood — boot-triggered onboarding · free-access grants · feature walkthroughs
Every play is configured from your CMS — no app releases, no developer tickets. These are live capabilities of the campaign engine today, not a roadmap.
Every play is configured from the Hub — no app releases, no developer tickets. These are live capabilities today, not a roadmap.
C Questions publishers ask
Yes. Publish360 connects to your website so that every digital purchase — including your entire back catalogue — is delivered into your branded reading app, protected by Readium LCP DRM. Your customers keep buying through your existing checkout; the app simply becomes the place they read and listen. Common platforms such as Shopify connect with a pre-built integration.
Whatever your website runs on, it can sync with Publish360: past and future digital orders appear in the reader's in-app library from day one, with no re-purchasing and no manual file delivery. Common platforms like Shopify and WordPress/WooCommerce use pre-built connectors; custom and legacy sites connect via API.
Readium LCP is the open DRM standard stewarded by EDRLab, the European Digital Reading Lab, of which Eden Interactive is a member. Unlike proprietary DRM, LCP is vendor-neutral: your protected files are not locked to any single platform, so your catalogue remains portable if your technology choices change.
It is the same app. Publish360 delivers ebooks (EPUB 3), audiobooks with full playback controls, video and structured courses in one branded library — readers switch between reading and listening without leaving your app.
More questions? Answers arranged by role — finance, IT, editorial, marketing, operations.
Know your readers.
Grow your community.
Own your future.
Own your reader relationships, keep 85–100% of your margins, and stop paying to re-acquire your own fans.