Storybase for authors with a mission

Use your book to grow your nonprofit

Your book casts the vision. Give readers a way to take part. Storybase connects your audiobook and ebook to supporter relationships, useful follow-up, and the next step into your mission.

Start with Author Free. Whole-book sharing, deeper insights, debriefs, and follow-up are available on paid plans. Compare plans

A reader opens the invitation, creates an account, and starts reading or listening in the browser.

Real Storybase screens with Lew Sterrett’s book. Reader details and activity are illustrative.

From understanding the mission to taking part

1

Share the story behind the work

Put the book in the hands of supporters, community leaders, partners, and the people you meet at events.

2

Learn who wants to be involved

Readers can share their contact details. Custom questions on Plus help you learn what matters to them and where they could contribute.

3

Make one clear invitation

Point readers to your volunteer signup, giving page, next event, or a conversation with your team. Keep those invitations connected to the book.

Help the message move through people

A reader who understands the mission can become part of the work and introduce someone else.

Understanding

The book gives people the context behind the cause

Connection

Readers choose to share who they are with you

Participation

A relevant invitation points into your existing mission work

Build the path that fits your mission

Welcome new supporters

Send your book after a conversation so people can understand the work before deciding how to take part.

Continue the conversation

Use email and reader flows on Plus to introduce the mission and offer a relevant next action.

Equip people who already care

An ambassador program on Pro gives supporters tools to share your book with their circles.

Point to the work you already run

Connect readers to your existing donation, volunteer, event, or community pages. Keep the invitation specific.

United in Crisis by Daniel Geraci

Customer story

A book that introduces a mission

Daniel Geraci shares United in Crisis to help people understand the work of disaster-response church networks. Through Storybase, 47 readers have claimed a shared copy and given him permission to keep their contact details.

Read Daniel’s story →Verified September 18, 2026. Unique accounts, excluding author and admin accounts.

Your book is the start of the relationship

Reach people with your ideas, help them put those ideas to work, and give them a reason to stay connected.

Turn your book into a growth engine.

Capture your audience, build your brand, and move readers to action.

A new way to use your book

Most readers move on when the book ends. Storybase changes that.

  • Bring your print, audio, and ebook together into one connected platform built to keep momentum going
  • Capture reader names, emails, responses, and chapter-by-chapter engagement
  • Turn readers into clients, subscribers, followers, repeat customers, and ambassadors

Reach

Put your book in more hands.

  • Share your full book or individual chapters from your phone in seconds
  • Create discounts, giveaways, and custom offers for different audiences, events, and campaigns
  • Promote your book with premium landing pages using your own branding and domain
  • Ask custom questions when readers get access so you can learn who they are and what matters to them

Engage

Keep readers ridiculously engaged.

  • Let readers move seamlessly between audio and ebook, or read and listen in sync
  • Give readers an AI assistant trained on your book that can answer questions and unpack ideas
  • Give each chapter a debrief: a video, reflection questions, and a quiz
  • Let readers highlight, take notes, and save AI conversations and debrief answers for later reflection
  • Let readers share standout chapters with friends

Activate

Turn attention into action.

  • Place calls to action directly inside the reading experience and guide readers toward their next step
  • Trigger email, text, and notification campaigns based on where each reader is in your book
  • Sync readers into your contacts and external CRM, along with the information they shared with you
  • See which chapters hold attention, where readers drop off, and where momentum is strongest

Scale

Build a following that grows with you

  • Stay in touch with readers after the last chapter and invite them into your community or program
  • Connect your book’s ideas to your coaching, courses, services, or mission
  • Equip your team, clients, and supporters to share your book through an ambassador program
  • Let each reader relationship introduce the next people to your work

Don’t just publish your book. Build momentum through it.

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Questions, answered

No. You can use a free share, a paid book, or a sample to introduce the mission. Whole-book free sharing is included on Plus; custom offers and ambassador programs are on Pro.

Storybase links readers to your organization’s existing donation page. Your fundraising platform handles the donation.

Yes. You can share the book directly, and a Pro ambassador program can equip supporters with their own sharing tools. The people they introduce remain connected to the book and program.

No. Readers can open your link, create a free reader account, and read or listen in their browser. They can also use the Storybase app. Your audiobook and ebook need to be available on the book for readers to use both formats.

Author Free includes publishing, a book page, and the names and emails of readers who choose to share their contact details. Plus adds whole-book sharing, custom questions, chapter insights, debriefs, email, and reader flows. Pro adds custom offers and ambassador programs. Book production and messaging have their own usage terms; compare the current plans on our pricing page.

Yes, when you have the rights to distribute the files through Storybase. An ebook enrolled in KDP Select must stay exclusive during its enrollment term. Your audiobook may have its own distribution agreement. Bring the formats you can share, or use Storybase’s publishing tools to prepare them.

Storybase for authors with a mission

Give people your book and a way to join your mission

Start with one book, one group of people, and one meaningful invitation.

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