Online, your book is one result in a list of millions. On a GetMyBook Smart Shelf it’s in front of someone with a coffee and ten minutes to spare — in a cafe, a clinic, a local business near them.
Applying takes about 2 minutes · no payment until you’re approved.
9 6 SPOTS AVAILABLE
✓ Low risk — unsold copies come back to you, and we cover the freight.
✓ Get your book into a venue for as little as $1.00 per day!
Approval required · limited slots per shelf.
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.
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
THE BOTTOM LINE · TL;DR
Let’s be straight about the return — and the costs.
Estimate only — the $15/book covers print plus 6-month placement rental, and varies with your book’s size and format.
Already have books printed? Supply your own 100 copies and pay a placement-only fee of AU$800 + GST — everything else is included.
Smart Shelf isn’t a get-rich channel — the real win is the exposure, the buyer details you capture, and the direct reader relationship you build. Treat the sales as a bonus on top. Here’s the bottom line:
What it costs
An estimated $15 per book × 100 books — print plus 6 months’ shelf placement.
Your return
You keep 50% of every sale — $17.50 on a $35 book. Sell your 97 copies (3 are promo) and that’s about $1,700, roughly $200 more than the ~$1,500 you paid to print and place them.
If it sells well
Once you’ve sold 75+ of your 100, we’ll ask you to buy another 100-book package to keep shelves stocked.
Low risk
At the end of your 6 months, any unsold copies are returned to you — and we cover the freight.
The venue trial
3 of your 100 books are promotional copies, so each new venue keeps 100% of sales during its short trial to earn its spot.
The commitment
You’ll need an Author Plan Pro, and you commit to the full 6-month placement (not pro-rated), renewing each cycle.
LET’S DO THE MATH
The honest numbers
This isn’t a royalty play — it’s break-even marketing that puts your book in front of thousands of people in real venues. At a $35 cover price you keep $17.50 a copy, and with 3 promo copies you have 97 to sell. Here’s how it shakes out.
Sell your 97 copies
+$197.50
97 × $17.50 = ~$1,697.50 against the ~$1,500 to print and place them. About $200 ahead on the shelf alone — before a single online sale.
Counting the Pro plan
Roughly square
Factor in six months of your Author Pro plan and you’re about break-even on the shelf — and that plan is a full sales engine, running whether or not your book is placed.
If nothing sells
~$513
You keep all 97 books you already own. The exercise costs about $513 for six months of real-world exposure, and the stock is yours to use however you like.
Your RRP is set with you in consultation — $35 is used here as a typical example, so your own numbers will vary with your cover price.
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 $17.50 you’d earn on it. 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, a sale costs you close 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. 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 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
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 97 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.
Applying takes about 2 minutes · no payment until you’re approved.
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.
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.
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.
We print your stock and prepare scan & stock records.
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 the sale, the buyer's details and a monthly payout.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
What does it cost?
An estimated $15 per book × 100 books, paid upfront — covering print plus 6 months’ placement rental. The exact figure depends on your book’s size and format. You’ll also need an Author Plan Pro for the length of your placement.
Can I supply my own books?
Yes. If you print and supply your own 100 books, we charge a placement-only fee of AU$800 + GST for the full 6-month placement — 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. And with our placement-only option (AU$800 + GST), you can supply your own 100 books — or multiple runs of 100 — if you have access to printing.
What if my books don’t sell?
At the end of the 6 months you can have all your unsold books back, plus freight — so you’re never left carrying stock.
How do I get paid?
Customers buy through GetMyBook.Store at the shelf. We collect the payment and pay you your 50% share monthly — no chasing, no admin. (When a new venue starts it runs a short trial where it keeps 100% of sales to earn its spot.)
How much can I realistically make?
You earn 50% of each sale. 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?
No. We print, place, restock, reconcile and run the checkout. You write the book; we handle the shelf.
What’s the commitment?
You commit to the full 6-month placement (it isn’t pro-rated), and that continues for each 6-month cycle while you’re placed. If you sell more than 75 of your 100 books, we’ll ask you to buy another 100-book package to keep your shelves stocked.
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.
