Why Publisher Champ
Successful corporations obsess over balance sheets, profit and loss statements and other key performance indicators. They do this because they know they need to know exactly where they’re making money and where they’re losing money. Why should it be any different for independent publishers? Publisher Champ allows you to turn guesswork into a science and focus your efforts and investments on the books, campaigns and ideas that resonate with your audience and will help your business flourish.
But why Publisher Champ specifically? We offer automated integration with a wide array of platforms including Amazon KDP, Draft2Digital, Barnes & Noble Press and Findaway Voices and more, with plans to add more platforms in the near future. We offer a cookies-based synchronization process which is more secure than using and storing your third-party platform credentials like other platforms do. We are committed to customer support with a 24/7 live chat. Our feature list continues to grow at rapid pace – go to our "What's new" page and just take a look at the scrollbar 🤯. When you join Publisher Champ, you get all this for the competitive price of just $16.99 per month. Please let us know if you find a better deal elsewhere!
What is Publisher Champ?
Publisher Champ was founded in 2020 by Eirinaios Theodorou aka Eiri. The idea for the platform was born when Eiri's brother in-law published his second book in August 2020 and found himself obsessed with checking his phone to see if anyone pre-ordered his book.
After some long walks on the beach discussing the potential gap in the market, Eiri decided to take on the task of creating a notfications platform that notifies authors when they receive a new pre-order on Amazon KDP.
Five months later, in January of 2021, we released the first version of the Android app that did exactly that - notifications for new orders giving our authors a nice little boost of dopamine whenever they had a new sale.
The platform was growing very fast and it wasn't long after that Eiri decided to transform the platform into an analytics tool. Of course he couldn't do that alone so he brought in Blaise Vellozzo to assist with his expertise in taking Publisher Champ to the next level!
Since then, plenty of publishing platforms have been added and as of now, Publisher Champ is the only platform of its kind that has Web, Android and iOS apps available so you can access your data from any device.
How Publisher Champ works
Get started with Publisher Champ by signing up for a free 14-day trial here.
After signing up, you will be prompted to install the Publisher Champ assistant extension that is available in most major browsers.
After installing the extension on your browser, with just 2 clicks you can synchronize any of the following platforms:
- Amazon KDP
- ACX
- Barnes & Noble
- Kobo and Kobo Plus
- IngramSpark
- Draft2Digital
- Findaway Voices
- Amazon Ads
- Facebook Ads
- Shopify
- A lot more coming soon..
We have made the synchronization process as seamless as possible and it should take you less than 5 minutes to synchronize all of the aforementioned platforms. The synchronization process might take up to 1 hour to finish, depending on how much data you have, but after that, all your data will be readily available at your fingertips.
Publisher Champ features
Publisher Champ offers over 25 features, and allows users to customize their experience to cater to diverse author needs. Our dashboard allows you to easily toggle on or off individual graphs, charts and widgets allowing you to see more data for an in-depth analysis, or less data for a quick overview. Either way, we have you covered!
Automated Platform Integration
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If you’re used to downloading excel files and copy and pasting into another sheet where you manually aggregate your data and produce data visualizations in excel, all whilst hoping you didn’t mistype something and hoping you remembered to click save and praying your pc doesn’t crash at the same time... Deep breath ... You need us! If you’re not even doing any of this yet then you need us even more!
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Automated platform integration means we replace all that manual labor for a few minutes of setup and then we handle everything else! We currently offer synchronization with Amazon KDP, Amazon Ads, Facebook Ads, Draft2Digital, Barnes & Noble Press, ACX, IngramSpark, Shopify, Kobo & Kobo Plus and Findaway Voices with plans to add more in the near future. Once synchronized, you can now view and analyze all your data all in one place. Seamlessly switch between various different charts, graphs and pages to get the full picture of your publishing business. Apply powerful filters and slicers to your data by country, platform, book type and more.
In-depth as well as simple-to-understand analytics
- If you like numbers and a lot of data to play with, we've got you covered!
- You have the ability to browse through all your books' details, create custom widgets, shape your Dashboard however you want to suit your needs by moving components whereever you want on the page as well as being able to hide and add components.
- You have the ability to browse through all your books' details, create custom widgets, shape your Dashboard however you want to suit your needs by moving components whereever you want on the page as well as being able to hide and add components.
- On the otherhand, if you like less numbers but more graphs, don't worry, we've got that too!
- You get analytics per book, per series, per Author name and many more. We also provide a variety of filters you can use to slice your data
- You get analytics per book, per series, per Author name and many more. We also provide a variety of filters you can use to slice your data
Journal Events
- Every publisher performs a number of tasks over time to keep up with the publishing game. Whether this includes changing book prices, changing book covers or doing in-person events to boost your brand awareness. With our Journal events feature, you can create these events within Publisher Champ and anotate them on your graphs to easily identify patterns and gain insights into your publishing journey.
Advertising Analytics
- No need to manually spend hours collecting all your Amazon and Facebook Spending, converting them to your preferred currency and then having to manually assign them to your books to see if your campaigns are performing. Publishing Champ will do that for you. We have all the exchange rates from Amazon and other publishing platforms for each currency all the way back to 2008 so your data will match exactly what you have on your different platforms.
- With our Advertising Analytics, you can easily see which books are profitable and which ones are losing money as well as important metrics such as: CTR (Click Through Rate), CPC (Cost Per Click), ACOS (Advertising Cost Of Sale) and many more!
Series Sell-through and Read-through rates
- Are you interested to see how your 1st book in a series is selling compared to the rest of your books?
- Or perhaps, how your readers are responding to your 2nd book in the series compared to the rest of your books.
- Are your KU reads going up with each release, or going down? Is adding an extra book in the series going to pay off or not?
With our advanced Series Sell-through and Read-through caluclations, you don't have to guess anymore! With just a few clicks you can check each of your series and understand how each book is performing!
Amazon Attribution stats
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We also offer analytics for your Amazon attribution links. You can easily check how much revenue each attribution campaign has generated, as well as how much you spent in Ads.
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We automatically calculate for you:
- Attributed orders
- Attributed KENP Reads (Kindle Unlimited page reads)
- Total Borrows for each book
- Total Units sold (the sum of Attributed orders and Borrows)
- Attributed Campaign clicks
- Cost Per Sale
- Facebook Spend (for each book)
- Amazon Attributed Sales (royalties generated by your Attribution links)
Publisher Champ comparison overview
| PUBLISHER CHAMP | COMPETITORS | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | $ | $$ |
| Integrations | ||
| Automatic tracking of Amazon Ads | ✓ | ✗ |
| Automatic tracking of Meta Ads | ✓ | ✗ |
| Amazon Attribution analytics | ✓ | ✗ |
| Book Geo links (Smart Links) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Customer support | ||
| Live Chat support | ✓ | ✗ |
| Extra features | ||
| Series Sell-Through & Read-Through analytics | ✓ | ✗ |
| Journal events | ✓ | ✗ |
| Email Notifications | ✓ | ✗ |
| Import Recurring & One-off Expenses/Royalties | ✓ | ✗ |
| Royalty & Spending Taxes | ✓ | ✗ |
| Mobile App (iOS & Android) | ✓ | ✗ |
| 25+ other advance features |
Constant Evolution through Customer Feedback
Updates
- We mentioned previously that our "What's new" page is worth looking at to see how fast our feature list is growing but also how quickly we integrate our users ideas and concerns.
Commitment to Customer Support
- We offer 24/7 customer support via email and live chat. We aim to answer questions and solve any issues our users face as soon as possible and endeavor to provide the highest quality customer service possible. This commitment is evident through our rapid resolution of bugs and other user-reported issues.
Now and beyond!
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It has never been a better time to join Publisher Champ. As well as recent feature additions such as Shopify data analytics, our Amazon Attribution analytics and our Smart Links feature we added earlier this year; we are continually refining and improving existing functionality to ensure a smooth and stable user experience.
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Moving forward, we plan to build on our solid foundation by introducing an array of new features and platform integrations. Each addition will be thoughtfully developed, rigorously tested, and seamlessly integrated to maintain the highest possible quality standards—ensuring that existing functionality remains uncompromised.