Digital Marketplace Handbook
For Backers & Readers
Your complete guide to discovering, purchasing, and enjoying digital content from indie creators
Understanding the Digital Marketplace
Learn what the marketplace is, how it works, and what makes it different from crowdfunding.
Instant Access to Indie Content
The Digital Marketplace offers completed works from verified indie creators. Buy once, own forever, and read on any device.
What is the Digital Marketplace?
A store that sells finished digital books, comics, and art packs. You buy a book and get the file right away — no waiting.
Think of it as a bookstore for indie creators. Click, pay, read.
How is it different from crowdfunding?
Crowdfunding is when you help pay for a book that is not made yet. You wait for it to be made and shipped. The Marketplace is for books that are already done. You pay and you get them right now.
Crowdfunding: "Help me make a comic next year." → Marketplace: "Buy my finished comic today."
What can you buy?
Right now: digital books. That means PDF files. Comics, graphic novels, art books, novels, how-to guides — anything a creator wants to sell as a digital file.
New types of files may be added later. Follow your favorite creators so you hear when they release something new.
Who makes the books?
Real indie creators, the same kind of people who run crowdfunding campaigns on this site. They get paid most of the money from each sale, so buying here helps them keep making things.
A creator might run a Kickstarter for Book 1, then sell Book 1 on the Marketplace once it is finished.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the Digital Marketplace.