Publish anything
Novels, serial fiction, short stories, nonfiction, manga and comics — in digital and print, from the same site.
For every kind of writer, and everyone who reads them
Feathermode
A publishing home you actually own.
Novels, serial fiction, short stories, nonfiction, manga — Feathermode gives writers a real site of their own to publish, sell, and build a readership around, and gives readers a place to track, rate, and recommend what they love. One setup fee gets you the site and the software behind it. No subscription required to keep it running.
Right now, it takes five tools
A storefront for selling. A membership platform for support. A review site for discovery. An email tool for newsletters. None of them talk to each other, and most of them charge you forever.
Storefronts
Sell your book — but only if it's a novel, and only by renting shelf space year after year.
Membership platforms
Build reader support — but with no bookshop, and no site of your own underneath it.
Review platforms
Help readers discover new work — completely disconnected from where that work is published.
Newsletter tools
Reach your readers' inbox — as one more login, one more bill, one more silo.
Feathermode puts all four under one roof — and one price.
One site. Everything it needs to do.
Feathermode is built for the full life of a piece of writing — from first chapter to the readers who keep coming back.
Own the site, not rent it
A one-time setup gets you the site and the software behind it. Keep publishing without a subscription clock running.
Real reader relationships
Patreon-style support tiers, built into your own site, between you and your readers — no platform standing in the middle.
A home for readers, too
Free reader sites for tracking, rating, and reviewing what they read — like Goodreads, if Goodreads belonged to the people using it.
One open discovery registry
Reviews can sync to a shared registry that spans every Feathermode site — and any site built on the same open premise. Curators get a place in it too.
Newsletters, your way
Email newsletters and web push notifications built in, so your audience is something you reach directly, not something you rent.
Built for three kinds of people
Everyone gets a site. What it's for depends on who's using it.
Publish novels, series, short fiction, nonfiction, or manga from a site you actually own. Sell directly, build reader support, and send your own newsletters — without giving up a cut of every sale.
Get a free site to track, rate, and review what you read. Follow the writers you love, support the ones you want to see keep going, and see reviews from a registry no single company owns.
Build reading lists and recommendations with a real audience and a real place in the registry. Discovery shouldn't be an algorithm's job alone.
How it stacks up
Books.by is built for selling novels. Shopify is built for selling anything. Feathermode is built for the whole life of a piece of writing — and the readers who follow it.
| Feature | Feathermode | Books.by | Shopify |
|---|---|---|---|
| Publish novels | Yes | Yes | No |
| Publish serial fiction | Yes | No | No |
| Publish nonfiction, manga & short stories | Yes | No | No |
| Sell digital & print copies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| One-time setup, no required subscription | Yes | No | No |
| Own the site and the software | Yes | No | No |
| Built-in reader memberships & support tiers | Yes | No | No |
| Free reader review sites | Yes | No | No |
| Open, shared discovery registry | Yes | No | No |
| Built-in newsletters & push notifications | Yes | No | No |
| Sell any kind of product, not just writing | No | No | Yes |
| Large app & plugin ecosystem | No | No | Yes |
Feathermode is still in development — the marks above reflect what we're building, not a shipped product yet. Books.by and Shopify marks reflect their publicly listed features as of 2026.
One honest payment
Most platforms in this space bill you every month whether you publish or not. Feathermode doesn't.
The usual way
- A fee every month or year, whether you publish or not
- Cancel, and your site goes with it
- Separate tools — and separate bills — for selling, support, newsletters, and reviews
The Feathermode way
- One setup fee. The site and the software are yours.
- Keep it running with or without us
- Publishing, support, newsletters, and reviews — one place, one payment
- A few optional add-ons for extra services, always optional, never required