Book distribution for publishers · 2026–27
Sell your books on Gatha Cognition
For publishing houses, small presses and institutions with their own books. We list your titles on our online bookstore and take the payment; you keep your stock and dispatch each order yourself. You set your own shipping charges and keep all of them.
No GSTNo joining fee on the Standard plan.Plans & prices
Choose your plan
Commission is charged only on books sold through our website, on the book price — never on shipping. No GST.
One order, worked out
A reader buys your ₹400 book and pays your ₹60 shipping charge — ₹460 in all.
For comparison: distributors who hold your stock usually keep 40–55% of the price, and large marketplaces charge referral and closing fees plus 18% GST while you still ship the order.
What’s included
| Standard | Partner | |
|---|---|---|
| Fee | No joining or annual fee | ₹4,999 per year |
| Selling | ||
| Commission on each book sold (online orders) | 15% | 10% |
| Shipping charged to the customer | 100% yours | 100% yours |
| Book page on our online bookstore | ✓ | ✓ |
| Search-friendly listing (title, author, ISBN, price, stock) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Secure online payments by card, UPI, net banking and PayPal | ✓ | ✓ |
| Customer support for orders and payments | ✓ | ✓ |
| Publisher portal | ||
| Add and manage your own books and stock | ✓ | ✓ |
| New-order alerts by email and in the portal | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your own shipping charges | ✓ | ✓ |
| Print address labels; mark orders Dispatched / Delivered | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sales and payment reports | ✓ | ✓ |
| Promotion | ||
| Listing of up to 20 titles done by our team | ✓ | Up to 50 |
| New-title announcement on our website and social media | — | 4 a year |
| Payouts | ||
| Monthly payout by bank transfer | ✓ | ✓ |
| Statement for every payout | ✓ | ✓ |
Who does what
You dispatch, we sell
We do
- Show your books on our online bookstore and keep the listings up to date
- Take the customer’s payment and handle payment questions
- Send you each order the moment it is paid, with the delivery address
- Split a mixed basket so each publisher gets only their own order
- Pay you every month, with a statement of every order
You do
- Keep your books in stock and your prices and stock up to date
- Pack and dispatch each order within 2 working days, by a tracked courier
- Mark the order Dispatched, then Delivered, in your portal
- Replace any book that arrives damaged or wrong, at your cost
- Sell at or below the printed price (MRP)
If an order is not dispatched within 5 working days, we may cancel it and refund the reader. No commission is charged on cancelled or refunded orders. Returns and refunds follow our Refund & Cancellation Policy.
Individual services
Extras for your list
Available on either plan. No GST.
Listing
Promotion
More channels
How it works
From application to your first payout
Payouts
- Every month, by the 10th, for orders delivered in the previous month.
- Book price less commission, plus the full shipping charge, by bank transfer.
- Every order is listed in your portal’s Sales & Payment report.
Terms
- Standard: no fixed term — stop any time with 30 days’ notice.
- Partner: one year, paid in advance; renew or move to Standard at the end.
- You keep all rights to your books; listing with us is non-exclusive.
Sell with us
Tell us about your publishing house and your list.
+91 94216 11949 · 02424 299 094
WhatsApp +91 95118 96365
Apply as a publisher
Prices valid for agreements signed by 31 March 2027 and subject to change thereafter. Final terms are set out in your distribution agreement.
About GST: no GST is charged on our services at present. If GST becomes applicable under government regulations in future, it will be added at the prevailing rate to invoices raised from that date, and we will tell you before you sign or pay.