Getting started

Accounts, onboarding, finding your way around.

1. 1.The beta, what it is, who gets in, what is freeBooklabria is a closed beta by invitation. Readers never pay; authors have four plans (Author free, Creator $9, Pro $19, Publisher $59 a month, less on a year) but nothing is charged during the beta, and beta authors keep the founding price of Creator and Pro for twelve months from the day their trial starts, and have thirty days of unchanged access when billing opens; ARC files are delivered through protected, expiring links; apps for iOS and Android are on the way; nobody here can give a date.For readers and authors · updated 2026-10-03
2. 2.Creating your account and profileSign up with an invite code, an e-mail address and a password; the code decides whether the account is a reader or an author account; then fill in the profile readers see (name, username, photo, bio) under Settings › Profile.For readers and authors · updated 2026-10-16
3. 3.Reader and author accountsAn account is either a reader account or an author account. You choose at sign-up; a reader can become an author later from For authors, which keeps the library and reviews and cannot be undone.For readers and authors · updated 2026-09-21
4. 4.Getting started as a readerThe first hour with a reader account: the five-step onboarding, where Home, Discover, Circles, Early copies and Library are, the search in the middle of the bar, what to do first, and where your settings and Help live.For readers · updated 2026-10-17
5. 5.Getting started as an authorThe first hour with an author account: what Studio is, its sections (Catalog, ARC, Reach, Posts, Invite readers, Settings), the order that works (pen name, first book, sample and buy link, campaign, readers) and where the numbers come from.For authors · updated 2026-09-25
6. 6.Setting your reading preferencesYour genres, tropes, language and the content you avoid shape recommendations, your feed and your early copy matches. Set them in the onboarding wizard (every step skippable) and change them any time under Settings › Profile.For readers · updated 2026-10-16
7. 7.Finding booksSearch from the header, browse Books and Authors with filters, let Discover recommend, reach the wider catalog for books not published here, or import a Goodreads or StoryGraph export.For readers and authors · updated 2026-10-13
8. 8.How the charts workThe Charts rank books by real reading activity each month (readers, finishes, saves, reviews, weighted by a rating that needs many ratings to move), never by sales or anything an author can buy; a book needs three engaged readers in a month to appear.For readers and authors · updated 2026-09-21