Discover why authors who want more than a delivered file choose Storybase over BookFunnel.
BookFunnel delivers ebooks and audiobooks to readers' devices, including reader magnets, ARCs, and newsletter swaps. Storybase is the end-to-end platform for authors to publish their book and grow their audience, brand, and business. It combines custom selling and sharing, native and browser reading, contact capture, courses, and ambassador programs. If you need files delivered, BookFunnel does that. If your book is a tool for growing your message, brand, or business, that’s what Storybase was built for.
A BookFunnel link hands the reader a file and ends there. On its paid plans it collects an email and passes it to your mailing list, and the reading itself happens somewhere BookFunnel cannot see.
Storybase captures every reader at access, with their name, email, and the questions you choose to ask, then tracks reading chapter by chapter. Build the list inside Storybase, email it from there, or sync it to the platform you already run.
Learn moreBookFunnel does not produce books and does not sell them. You bring finished files, and sales run through a store you set up somewhere else.
Storybase produces the ebook, the audiobook with more than ninety narrator voices, and the print edition, then sells them on a branded page with Stripe checkout. Authors keep up to 70% of net sales, and the free plan already sells.
Learn moreBookFunnel is built to deliver a finished file to a reader's chosen app or device. That handoff adds steps before the reader reaches page one.
A Storybase share is sent from your phone with a personal note, and it opens the book in the browser on any modern device, or in the native app for readers who want it. You see who opened it and how far they read.
Learn moreBookFunnel's answer to what happens next is group promos and newsletter swaps: more readers for more authors, not a next step for yours.
Storybase puts your next step inside the book: a course with videos and quizzes in the chapters, a call to action readers can tap, email funnels timed to how far each reader got, and a QR code that brings paperback readers into the same audience.
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Swaps trade audiences between authors. BookFunnel does not provide a program that rewards readers and partners for sharing your book.
Ambassador programs give your fans, team, and partners tracked links and commissions up to 40%, show you exactly who brought whom, and Storybase takes no cut of what your ambassadors pay you.
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| Factor | Storybase | BookFunnel | Why Storybase wins |
|---|---|---|---|
| The job | Publishes the book, then turns readers into audience, brand, and business | Delivers finished book files to readers' devices | The whole path from manuscript to audience, not a handoff |
| Publishing | Produces the ebook, the audiobook (90+ narrator voices), and the print edition | Bring finished files; BookFunnel does not produce books | One manuscript becomes three formats, with no files to prepare |
| Reading | A native app or browser reading experience: readers get a frictionless, premium way into your book, whichever they prefer | Files open in reading apps or the BookFunnel app | A link is the shortest path to page one |
| Your reader data | Every access captures name, email, and your own questions, and tracks reading progress; build your list inside Storybase or sync it to your own CRM or email platform | Email collection on paid plans, passed to your email platform | The list lives with the reading data, so you can act on both |
| Selling | Built-in checkout with Stripe; authors keep up to 70% on digital sales | Delivery for stores you run elsewhere, like Shopify or Payhip | Checkout is built in, and you keep up to 70% |
| After the book | Next-step funnels, courses inside the chapters, and ambassador programs that reward the readers who share it | Group promos and newsletter swaps | The next step is inside the book, not in someone else's newsletter |
| ARCs and launch teams | Pre-release copies through the same capture-first sharing | Watermarked ARC delivery, a long-time strength | Reviewers are captured, not just watermarked |
| Print on demand, with a QR code that brings paper readers into your funnel | Not offered | Paper readers join the same audience | |
| Price | Free to start; paid plans add the selling and growth toolkit | $30 to $300 per year for delivery; audiobook delivery costs extra | Free to publish and sell; you pay when you grow |
| Best fit | Authors using a book to grow an audience, a brand, or a business | Authors who only need a file delivered | Everything past delivery |
| Plan level | Storybase | BookFunnel | What that buys you |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Author Free: $0, you keep 50%. Publish and sell the ebook, audiobook, and paperback from one branded page; every reader by name and email; free first-three-chapter shares; a launch team; an AI assistant trained on your book. | First-Time Author: $30 per year. One pen name, 500 downloads a month, unlimited books stored, group promos and author swaps. No email collection and no audiobook delivery. | Publishing, selling, and the reader list at $0. BookFunnel's entry plan delivers files and collects no emails. |
| Sharing and reader data | Author Plus: $75 per month billed yearly, you keep 60%. Whole-book and chapter shares with time and content controls, your own form on any share, ARC copies, a companion course, reader-by-reader detail, email funnels and broadcasts, and sync to your email or CRM platform. | Mid-List Author: $200 per year. 5,000 downloads a month, up to four pen names, email collection, up to four mailing-list integrations, watermarked files, secure ARC delivery, and direct-sales delivery. | Plus builds and emails the list where the reading happens. Mid-List hands emails to another tool. |
| Selling and growth | Author Pro: $150 per month billed yearly, you keep 70%. Custom offers on their own landing pages, required access forms, multi-book bundles, and ambassador programs with commissions up to 40% and unlimited comp seats. | Bestseller: $300 per year. Unlimited downloads, up to six pen names, six mailing-list integrations, and priority support. Selling still happens in a store you run elsewhere. | Pro sells the book and recruits the people who share it. Bestseller delivers more of the same files. |
| Audiobooks | Included on every plan: produce the audiobook with more than ninety narrator voices and stream it in the reader, with no delivery metering. | An add-on on Mid-List and Bestseller: $20 per year plus $0.04 per delivered hour, or prepaid plans from $100 to $300 per year by hours delivered. | No per-hour meter, ever. BookFunnel bills audiobooks by delivered hours. |
| Publishers and teams | Publisher Business: $375 per month billed yearly ($450 monthly); Enterprise by quote. One roster with per-author royalties and roster-wide marketing. | Separate plans for publishers, marketers, aggregators, and promo sites, priced on request. | One roster with per-author royalties, priced in the open. BookFunnel quotes on request. |
Prices and plan facts as published on bookfunnel.com/pricing and storybase.io/pricing on September 3, 2026.
Name, email, your own questions, and how far they read, from the free plan up. Not a download count, a person.
A course inside the chapters, a call to action they can tap, and email timed to where each reader stopped.
Programs your fans, team, and partners join to share your book with tracked links, commissions, and attribution.
If all you need is a file delivered, BookFunnel does that well. If your book is a tool for growing your message, brand, or business, Storybase publishes it, sells it, captures every reader, and gives each of them somewhere to go next. That is the whole job, and BookFunnel does not try to do it.
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