tome.

A bookstore — with a writing studio inside

Books, straight from their authors.
Classics free in the original.

Buy once, own it forever — plus a growing shelf of public-domain classics, free in their original language (translations priced separately). Every book here was written or published in Tome's own studio — writers, it's open below.

Browse the store

Buy once, own it forever · classics free to read

Write on Tome

Now, for writers

The Studio

Write your book. We handle the rest.

Outline it, draft it chapter by chapter in a calm editor with Claude at the sentence level, and revise until the voice is unmistakably yours. When the manuscript is done, the studio handles the rest — cover and one-click publishing to the Tome store.

Start writing

Pay per AI credit, only for what you use · top up anytime · credits never expire

III · The Lighthouse
Saved

The keeper had stopped winding the clocks the week his daughter left, and the house had learned to keep its own crooked time — meals at dusk, letters at midnight, the lamp lit whenever the sea sounded wrong.

On the night the ferry failed to come back, he climbed the hundred and four steps with

The studio — your manuscript, with an editor in the margins

The writing flow

From outline to finished book.

The path a book actually takes — plan, draft, revise — wired into one calm studio, with everything a finished book needs waiting at the end.

  1. I

    Outline the book.

    Shape it before you write: a story bible for characters, places, and threads, and an outline you can brainstorm with Claude. Your world, kept consistent as it grows.

  2. II

    Write with Claude in the room.

    A calm TipTap editor that gets out of your way. Highlight a line to rewrite, expand, shorten, or continue — your voice profile rides in every prompt, so it sounds like you, not generic AI.

  3. III

    Revise until it's yours.

    Chapter-by-chapter manuscript review and consistency checks catch the drift — names, timelines, tone — and explain every note in plain language, by chapter name.

  4. IV

    Dress the book for readers.

    Design the cover on a real canvas, then translate it into new-language editions — the production a finished book needs, without leaving Tome.

  5. V

    Publish to the Tome store.

    One click turns the finished manuscript into a storefront listing — readers discover it, read it, and buy it on Tome. You set the price and keep the rights.

What’s inside

Every tool a finished book needs.

01

Plan

A story bible for characters, places, and threads, plus an outline you can brainstorm with Claude. Your world stays consistent as the book grows.

02

Write

A distraction-free editor with inline AI: shorten, expand, rewrite, continue. Your voice profile is injected into every prompt so Claude sounds like you, not generic AI.

03

Cover

A real canvas editor with layers and typography, plus AI generation across Recraft v3, FLUX Pro, Ideogram, and Kontext. 300 DPI for print, ready for KDP.

04

Translate

An AI agent renders your finished book into another language — chapter by chapter, your voice and story bible intact — as a linked edition you can cover, price, and sell on its own.

05

Publish

List the finished book on the Tome store, where readers discover, read, and buy it. You set the price; the rights — and the readers — stay yours.

06

Own it all

Manuscripts stay yours — stored encrypted in Tome, exportable to PDF, EPUB, DOCX, and Markdown anytime. No API keys to manage: you pay for the AI you use, in prepaid AI credits. No lock-in.

Sell on Tome

Get paid for what you write.

You wrote it here — sell it here. One click turns a finished manuscript into a storefront listing, and you start earning from readers who buy, rent, or subscribe to it.

Sell, rent, or serialize

Readers buy your book outright, rent it for a few days, or subscribe to a series for a new episode every week. Every read is real money settled to your account — not ad pennies.

Keep 90%

A flat 10% platform fee (minimum $0.50) per sale or rental — no subscriptions, no listing fees. The rest is paid out to you through Stripe.

Your book, your rights

Set your own price, publish in multiple languages, and keep every right. The readers stay yours.

Founding Authors

Join early, keep more.

Founding Authors lock in a 7% platform fee for life — instead of the standard 10% — on every sale and rental, forever.

We're recruiting a small group of early authors to help shape the store before it opens wide to readers. If that's you, we'd like to hear from you.

50 of 50 spots left

How the AI runs

Nothing to set up.

No API keys to set up. Add prepaid AI credits and Tome runs Claude and the cover models for you — you pay a flat price per AI credit, only for what you use.

Yours to keep

Export anything, anytime.

Your work lives encrypted in Tome, and every piece exports to a portable format — PDF, EPUB, DOCX, and Markdown — that you download the moment you want it. No lock-in.

Pricing

Pay only for what you use.

Buy AI credits and spend them as you go — top up anytime, and they never expire.

$10

20,000 AI credits

$0.50 / 1k credits

$25

55,000 AI credits

+10% bonus

$0.45 / 1k credits

$50

120,000 AI credits

+20% bonus

$0.42 / 1k credits

Larger packs carry a bonus · AI credits never expire

Or go monthly

Hobby

$12 / mo

30,000 AI credits / mo

$0.40 / 1k credits

Author

$29 / mo

90,000 AI credits / mo

$0.32 / 1k credits

Pro

$59 / mo

220,000 AI credits / mo

$0.27 / 1k credits

Optional — each tier drops discounted AI credits into your wallet every month. Cancel anytime.

Rewriting a paragraph
≈ 100 AI credits
Translating a full book
≈ 30,000 AI credits
A full manuscript review
a few thousand AI credits

Write the book.

The studio is open.