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Kumo is built for creators who have already done the hard part: creating something worth publishing.

Upload your finished manuscript as a PDF, add your cover, description and price, and Kumo turns it into a professionally presented digital edition with its own publication page.

You keep ownership of your work. Kumo gives it a place to live, be discovered, sold and connected back to you.

The annual publishing fee keeps one edition live on Kumo and includes its publication page, digital reading experience, preview, hosting, reader access, reviews and the tools that connect readers with the creator behind the work.

There are no separate setup or hosting fees for that edition.

During Kumo's launch phase, Kumo takes no commission on your sales.

The goal is simple: creators should keep more of the value their work creates.

Your manuscript is used to create the digital reading experience on Kumo.

Kumo does not publicly distribute your original PDF. Readers access the edition through the Kumo platform, where the work is presented as part of the complete publication experience.

Your work remains yours.

Every digital edition includes a preview of the first 10 pages.

This gives readers an opportunity to experience the work before buying without exposing the complete edition.

You choose the price.

When a reader places an order, you can send them your PayPal payment link. Payment goes directly into your own PayPal account.

Once you confirm that payment has been received, Kumo unlocks the digital edition for that reader.

You sell directly. You get paid directly.

Kumo is designed to progressively remove more of the operational work around publishing and selling so creators can spend more time creating.

During the launch phase, no.

You pay the annual publishing fee. Kumo takes no sales commission during launch; payment-provider fees may apply.

If Kumo's commercial model changes in the future, creators will be informed clearly before any change applies.

Yes.

Your Kumo publication can link directly to paperback or other editions available through external stores such as Lulu, UICLAP or other retailers.

Those transactions take place directly with the external store.

Kumo remains the central home for the publication, while readers can choose the format and purchasing channel that works for them.

After payment is confirmed, the reader receives access to the digital edition through Kumo.

They can return to the publication through their Kumo access rather than receiving an openly distributed manuscript file.

This keeps the work presented in the environment you created around it — alongside the cover, description, author identity, reviews and opportunities to connect with you.

Readers can leave a rating and written review directly from the publication page.

Reviews are submitted to you before they become public. You can Publish or Archive them, but you cannot rewrite what the reader said.

If Kumo can confirm that the reader purchased the digital edition through Kumo, the review is shown as a Verified purchase.

Readers who obtained the work elsewhere can also leave reviews, but those purchases are not represented as verified by Kumo.

Yes.

Every publication can be shared directly using its Kumo page.

Readers can share the publication through their device or browser, or use options such as LinkedIn, WhatsApp, email or a direct link.

The shared link always brings people back to your publication on Kumo.

A publication can create value beyond the edition itself.

Through Continue beyond the cover, creators can offer private conversations or invite readers, companies and organizations to request talks, workshops and other engagements.

The idea is not simply to sell a piece of content.

It is to create a home for the work — and for the opportunities that can come from it.

Your publication is managed from My publications.

There you can manage the information and features Kumo makes editable for your published work, review digital orders and moderate reader reviews.

Your publication remains connected to the same public Kumo page.

Kumo is for independent creators with finished work who want more than somewhere to upload a file.

It is designed for authors and other creators who want to present their work professionally, sell directly, retain control and create a closer connection between the work and the person behind it.

Write to us from the email address associated with your Kumo account and tell us what you were trying to do.

We answer every message.