The All-in-One Platform for Modern Publishers and Authors
Streamline your entire book publishing process—from manuscript to market—with our integrated suite of tools for managing workflows, tracking royalties, and promoting your work.
Key Features
Our integrated suite of tools helps publishers and authors manage their workflow, track royalties, and promote their work—all in one place.
Royalty Management
Automate book royalty tracking across multiple platforms with intelligent calculations, customizable structures, and transparent payment tracking.
- •Import from 13+ distributors automatically
- •Automatic advance tracking and recoupment
- •Multi-currency support with FX conversion
- •Multi-contributor splits calculated instantly
- •Tiered royalty structures (dollar, unit, or pages-read)
- •Branded statement delivery to contributors
- •E-signature contracts with reusable templates
- •Bulk apply contract templates to multiple contributors
Why Choose Familiar
From independent authors to publishing houses, our platform is designed to help you focus on what matters most— creating and sharing great stories.
E-Signature Contracts
Send contracts for signing in minutes. Reusable templates and bulk application save hours of administrative work.
Learn more →Built-In Submissions
Accept manuscript submissions through public windows. Authors track their status without emailing you.
Learn more →Hours to Minutes
Publishers report cutting royalty processing from 4-6 hours to 15 minutes per month.
Transparent & Trustworthy
Build trust with real-time contributor dashboards that eliminate "where's my money?" emails.
Built for Teams
Bring your whole team—no per-seat pricing. Authors access their own portal.
Learn more →Scalable Solutions
From independent authors to publishing houses, we scale with your needs.
Trusted by the Publishing Industry
Simple, Transparent Pricing
Choose the features you need and only pay for what you use. Many features are free during our beta period.
First 10 books free
then $1/book/month
Pay only for what you use with our flexible usage-based pricing
- 10 free books included
- Automated royalty management
- E-signature contracts included
- Custom royalty structures
- Multi-distributor support
- Automated statement delivery
Publishing 2,000+ titles?
We offer custom pricing for publishers with large backlists. Let's find a plan that works for your catalog.
How It Works
Get started in minutes, not days. Here is how publishers typically set up Familiar.
Add Your Books and Contributors
Set up your catalog by adding book titles, ISBNs, and formats. Then add your authors, co-authors, illustrators, and other contributors along with their royalty percentages. You can set up tiered royalty structures, advances, and per-format splits.
Import Sales Data from Distributors
Upload sales statements from Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, Draft2Digital, and other distributors. Familiar automatically parses the data and matches it to your books—no manual data entry required. Multi-currency sales are converted automatically.
Review and Send Statements
Familiar calculates each contributor's earnings across all distributors and formats, applies advances and deductions, and generates branded royalty statements. Review the numbers, then send statements directly to your contributors with one click.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about Familiar and how it can help your publishing workflow.
What is Familiar?
Familiar is an all-in-one publishing management platform that helps publishers and authors manage book royalties, contracts, submissions, editorial analysis, and project management. It replaces the spreadsheets, email threads, and disconnected tools that slow publishing teams down.
How much does Familiar cost?
Familiar uses usage-based pricing. Royalty management starts free for your first 10 books, then costs $1 per book per month. Editorial tools use a credit-based system starting at $5 per credit. Many publishing tools are free during our open beta. There are no setup fees and no long-term contracts.
Which book distributors does Familiar support?
Familiar supports all major book distributors including Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, Draft2Digital, Asterism Books, IPG, Barnes & Noble Press, Kobo Writing Life, Google Play Books, ACX (audiobooks), Shopify, and more. You can also upload sales statements from any distributor in CSV or Excel format.
Is Familiar suitable for small presses?
Yes. Familiar is designed to scale from independent authors publishing a single title to publishing houses managing thousands of books. The first 10 books are free, so small presses can get started without any upfront cost. There is no per-seat pricing, so your entire team can use the platform.
How does royalty tracking work?
You upload sales statements from your distributors (or import them automatically). Familiar parses the sales data, applies your custom royalty structures, calculates multi-contributor splits with support for advances and tiered rates, handles currency conversions, and generates detailed payment reports. The entire process takes minutes instead of hours of manual spreadsheet work.
Can contributors see their own royalty data?
Yes. Familiar provides a contributor portal where authors and agents can log in to view their real-time earnings, download royalty statements, and track sales data across distributors. This transparency eliminates the back-and-forth emails that publishers typically deal with.
What editorial tools does Familiar offer?
Familiar offers AI-powered manuscript evaluation with scoring across literary merit, pacing, dialogue, and more. Additional tools include story beat extraction and narrative structure analysis, N-gram analysis for identifying overused phrases, line-by-line editing, proofreading, and AI content detection.
Is my data secure?
Yes. Familiar uses bank-level encryption (TLS 1.3) for all data transmission and encrypts all financial data at rest. We follow SOC 2 security standards and never share your data with third parties. Your sales data, contributor information, and manuscripts remain completely private.