GMB SMART SHELF · WESTERN SYDNEY POD

Put your book where readers actually are.

Stay on Sell My Book Author Plan Pro (Monthly) and your Smart Shelf slot is free. You keep 50% of the Gross Sales (after GST if applicable), and supply at least 25 copies yourself — or we'll quote to print them for you. 100+ copies unlocks better pricing.

Applying takes about 2 minutes · free slot while you're on Author Plan Pro.
9 6 SPOTS AVAILABLE
✓ Free Smart Shelf slot — no placement fee while you're on Author Plan Pro (Monthly).
✓ Supply at least 25 copies (100+ for better pricing) — or we'll quote to print them for you.
Approval required · limited slots per shelf.
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WHAT IT IS

Your book, on a real shelf, in real venues.

GMB Smart Shelf places your printed book into selected high-traffic venues across Western Sydney — cafes, clinics, wellness studios, waiting rooms. We print it, place it, and run the checkout. You get the exposure, the reader data, and a direct channel to keep.

No algorithm. No online noise. Just your book, face-out, where people actually browse and buy.

getmybook.store Smart Shelf in a venue

WHAT YOU GET

More than shelf space.

Real-world placement

  • Onto curated shelves in everyday venues
  • Where people browse
  • And buy on the spot

Every buyer's details

  • Checkout runs through GetMyBook.Store
  • Each sale: the reader's name and email (with consent)
  • The relationship doesn't end at the counter

Live reporting

  • Scans and confirmed sales
  • Stock movement, venue by venue
  • All in your author dashboard

Done-for-you stock

  • We print your stock
  • We place and restock it
  • We reconcile every shelf
  • Auto top-up before a shelf runs empty

Monthly payouts

  • Your revenue share, reconciled monthly
  • Paid straight to you
  • No chasing, no admin

A channel you keep

  • Turn a shelf browse into a reader you keep
  • Reach them again for your next launch
  • Event or new release
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LET’S DO THE MATH

The honest numbers

This isn’t a royalty play — it’s a free distribution channel for as long as you’re on Sell My Book Author Plan Pro (Monthly). There’s no placement fee: you supply the stock (minimum 25 copies, 100+ for better pricing) — or we’ll quote to print it for you — and we split every sale 50/50. Here’s how it shakes out.

Your Smart Shelf slot
$0

Stay on Author Plan Pro and your slot is free — no rental, no placement charge, ever.

Your share of every sale
50%

Every sale through the shelf splits 50/50 with you — of the Gross Sales, after GST if applicable — reconciled and paid monthly.

Your stock
25 copies min.

Supply at least 25 copies yourself — or we’ll quote to print them for you. Supply 100 or more and your per-unit cost drops.

Your RRP is set with you in consultation. Figures above are illustrative — your own numbers will vary with your cover price and print run size.

VS. ONLINE ADS

Compare it to buying readers online

Buying a single book sale through ads usually costs $15–30 for a $35 non-fiction title — often more than the 50% you’d earn on that same sale through your Smart Shelf. And the retailer keeps the buyer’s name and email, not you.

Amazon Ads

Roughly $15–30 per non-fiction sale. You hand 25–40% of the price to Amazon, and the buyer stays theirs.

Meta (Facebook / Instagram)

Commonly $30–100 per purchase on cold traffic. Most authors run it at a loss on purpose, just to build a list.

On a Smart Shelf there’s no placement fee, so a sale costs you next to nothing — and the buyer is yours to keep.
WHAT YOU’RE ACTUALLY BUYING

More than a hundred book sales

Distribution you can’t easily buy

Your book on a real shelf, in real venues, in front of people who’ve never heard of you. Physical discovery like that is hard to buy at any price.

The readers themselves

Every sale captures a name and email, with consent. That list is yours to keep — for your next book, your course, your coaching, whatever you sell next.

You own the print run

The books aren’t a fee that disappears — they’re your stock from day one. Anything that doesn’t sell on a shelf, you keep and use however you like.

And it compounds across the network

Every buyer captured at any shelf, for any author, joins our book-buying audience. A reader who picked up another title in a café can be shown yours online next — and yours get shown other books too. You’re plugging into a growing pool of proven book-buyers the whole network keeps feeding, and you’re in from the first pod as this scales across Australia and beyond.

YOUR AUTHOR PRO PLAN

The shelf is just the start

Your Author Pro plan is what makes your Smart Shelf slot free, and it runs whether or not your book is on a shelf — it’s a full online sales engine in its own right. Every reader you capture at the shelf is someone you can sell to again online, at far better royalties than the big retailers pay.

Everything in Author Pro

  • A free Smart Shelf slot for as long as you’re on the plan
  • Enhance up to 5 books
  • Store links to Amazon, Apple Books, Google Play, Kobo and more
  • Auto-enabled direct print sales via Ingram (U.S.) for better royalties
  • Your work showcased in our global, author-powered bookstore
  • Direct digital sales — earn 75% royalty, plus the buyer’s details
  • Direct print sales — earn 5% royalty, plus the buyer’s details
  • Author Toolkit: page analytics, link hub, dynamic QR codes, AI book optimiser and royalties tracking across every platform
  • Access to Best Seller Campaigns (additional charges apply)
  • Email subscribers of your own

The online upside

Say you sell out your shelf copies — those readers are now on your list. Sell them your ebook at $9.99 and, at the 75% direct-digital royalty, you keep about $7.50 a copy.

If 40 of them buy, that’s roughly $300 more — and you keep their details to sell the next book too. Online, the retailer keeps the buyer; here you don’t.

Illustrative — your numbers depend on your own pricing.

Apply to place your book →
Applying takes about 2 minutes · free Smart Shelf slot while you’re on Author Plan Pro (Monthly).

Author Calculator
What will your book make?
Retail price$35.00
Print cost$7.50
Your 50% per sale$17.50
You keep (100 books)$1,697
AUTHOR CALCULATOR

See exactly what your book could make.

Plug in your book’s retail price and print cost, and the calculator does the rest — your share per sale, what you keep across the shelf, and your break-even. About a minute, no sign-up.

✓ Your earnings per book and per 100-book run
✓ Your 50% share of Gross Sales, laid out plainly
✓ Just play with the numbers and see

Open the Author Calculator →
MORE THAN A SHELF

You’re in the store, not just on the shelf.

Every Smart Shelf author also gets a spot in GetMyBook.Store — so the same book on your shelves is selling online as part of the deal:

✓ Sell your ebook and audiobook direct and keep 75–80% of the royalty
✓ Sell the paperback online too — we’re a certified Ingram bookstore
✓ One clean book page with every retailer link, plus each buyer’s details (with consent)

See GetMyBook.Store →
Ebook
75–80% direct
Audiobook
75–80% direct
Print
Shelf + online
SECURE & SIMPLE

Browse freely. Buy in seconds.

Every book carries a small removable clip, so venues can display with confidence. A customer scans and pays on their own iPhone or the shelf tablet — we capture their details — then takes the book to the counter, where staff simply slide the clip off. Safe for the venue, effortless for the reader.

Smart Shelf removable anti-theft clip: scan, pay, then slide off at the counter
NEVER MISS A SALE

Sold out? You still sell.

When a title sells out at a venue, we slot a “scan to buy” card into its place. Customers scan the QR and buy your book direct from GetMyBook.Store, shipped straight to them — so a sold-out shelf keeps earning.

Out-of-stock scan-to-buy card for the Smart Shelf
HOW IT WORKS

From application to shelf.

Start to finish takes about 5–6 weeks — from approval through printing your books and delivering them to your venues.

1

Apply

Apply with your book — approval required, slots are limited.

2

Author Plan Pro

Join or stay on Sell My Book Author Plan Pro (Monthly) — this is what makes your Smart Shelf slot free.

3

We print

You supply at least 25 copies (100+ for better pricing) — or we'll quote to print them for you.

4

On the shelf

Your title goes onto Smart Shelves in selected venues.

5

Scan & buy

Customers scan and buy through GetMyBook.Store at the shelf.

6

You get paid

You get 50% of the Gross Sales (after GST if applicable), the buyer's details, and a monthly payout.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

What does it cost?

Nothing — while you're on Sell My Book Author Plan Pro (Monthly), your Smart Shelf slot is free. You supply at least 25 copies yourself (100+ gets you better pricing) — or we'll quote to print them for you.

Can I supply my own books?

Yes — that's the standard path. Supply at least 25 copies yourself (100+ for better pricing) and there's no placement fee while you're on Author Plan Pro. Everything else — the shelf, tablet, checkout, restocking and reporting — is included.

Paperback or hardcover?

Both. We can place paperback or hardcover — it mainly comes down to size, so the shelf can hold 2–3 copies per slot. Hardcover works best when it’s bulk-printed; print-on-demand hardcovers get pricier. If you'd rather not print yourself, we'll quote to print your stock for you.

What if my books don’t sell?

Your stock is yours from day one, so there's no return-guarantee clock ticking. Anything that doesn't sell on the shelf stays yours to keep or use however you like.

How do I get paid?

Customers buy through GetMyBook.Store at the shelf. We collect the payment and pay you 50% of the Gross Sales (after GST if applicable) monthly — no chasing, no admin.

How much can I realistically make?

You earn 50% of the Gross Sales (after GST if applicable) on every sale, with no placement fee eating into it. Be realistic — even a full sell-through is a modest return. The real win is the exposure and capturing every buyer’s name and email (with consent), so you build a reader list you own.

Where will my book be placed?

Across Western Sydney to start — cafes, clinics, wellness studios and other high-traffic local venues where people browse with time to spare.

Will there be other locations?

Yes — once our first 10-venue pod is launched, we plan to expand across Sydney, then Australia, then the world.

Which books do best?

Browse-and-buy titles. Non-fiction, self-help, health and local-interest books tend to do especially well on the shelf.

Do I handle any of the logistics?

We place, restock, reconcile and run the checkout. You supply the stock (or we'll quote to print it for you) — you write the book, we handle the shelf.

What’s the commitment?

Your Smart Shelf slot stays free for as long as you're on Author Plan Pro and keep your shelf stocked — if you sell through, just top up with another batch of at least 25 copies (100+ for better pricing).

BUILT BY EXPERTS · DESIGNED FOR AUTHORS

35 years of business experience, now in your hands

SellMyBook.app is built by Evolve Systems Group Pty Ltd — an Australian company founded in 1990, with more than 35 years of work across technology and publishing. We've helped authors put more than 3,500 #1 best-selling books into readers' hands, so we know what it takes.

Our directors have published 10 titles of their own and guided hundreds of authors through their own publishing house — they've sat in the author's chair and worn the publisher's hat. Add our standing as a certified Ingram bookstore, and you get something rare: a team that understands publishing from every angle at once.

PLACES ARE LIMITED

Our first pod is filling fast

We're launching with a single 10-venue pod across Western Sydney, and each shelf only holds a limited number of titles. We expect places to go quickly — once a pod fills, new authors join a wait list for the next one. If a Smart Shelf placement is something you want, apply early rather than risk the wait.

IS THIS FOR YOU?

Built for authors who want real-world reach.

✓Your book suits a browse-and-buy moment — non-fiction, self-help, health and local-interest titles do especially well.
✓You want visibility beyond online listings.
✓You want to own your reader relationships, not rent them.
✓You’re ready to invest in placing your book in the real world.
✓You’re on Author Plan Pro, or happy to join.
✓You value reach and reader data over a quick margin.
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A reader enjoying a book and coffee in a cafe
Where your reader already is
A coffee, ten minutes,
and your book within reach.
APPLY

Get your book on the shelf.

Tell us about your title and we'll check if it's a fit. Spots on each shelf are limited.

Apply to place your book
GMB Smart Shelf is a service by Evolve Systems Group · Sydney, Australia