The all-in-one eCommerce solution for publishers

Print, digital and audio through one global checkout.

Publishers selling direct with Glassboxx

Princeton University Press Simon & Schuster Bloomsbury Audio Into Books Bar Publishing Melbourne University Press Holy Trinity Publications Gorgias Press Emerald Books Dymocks Macmillan Publishers Columbia University Yale University Press Edinburgh University Press University of West Indies Press The Reading House

The leading global supplier of direct eCommerce for publishers.

Glassboxx provides all-in-one eCommerce solutions that allow publishers to sell print & digital titles directly to readers. We have a range of packages to suit the unique needs and set-ups of publishers. Your users will purchase your books through one cart (powered by Glassboxx) that combines all formats in one seamless experience designed to maximise sales and customer retention.

While Glassboxx started digitally, fulfilling print is now our primary feature. Having integrated with leading print distributors across the globe, the Glassboxx Cart combines your print and digital sales in one checkout – with our award-winning customer service team behind it. Built by publishing people, for publishing people.

Industry knowledge and training

We give you the training and technology to sell direct. Our unique publisher success team will guide you and share industry knowledge while you keep control of your brand, your readers and your commercial decisions.

Award-winning customer service

Our friendly, professional customer service team is an extension of yours and ensures the best outcomes for your end users.

Go global

From a single country to more than 150, we handle fulfilment, currency and tax so you can reach readers anywhere.

One cart for print, digital & audio.

A reader adds a hardback, an eBook and an audiobook to the same basket and pays once. The cart drops into the website you already have – desktop, tablet and mobile – with your branding, your currencies and your payment methods. Print is passed to your integrated distributor, digital unlocks in the reader’s library within seconds, and bundles, pre-orders, discount codes and gift purchases all run through the same flow.

Global from day one.

Sell into 150+ countries. We apply, collect and remit VAT, GST and sales tax for print and digital alike.

Your books, on every device.

DRM-secure eBooks and audiobooks delivered to the Glassboxx app, the Academic Reader app, or a white-label app across iOS, Android, macOS and Windows.

Revenue that comes back.

Our products help you bring your readers in and keeps them coming back! Through initiatives like subscriptions, loyalty, and refer-a-friend, we help you build and grow your community of readers.

A team, not just a platform.

Our Product and Publisher Success Team works alongside you: workshops on user journeys, audience segmentation and launch strategy, annual roundtables, and a Knowledge Base of best-practice guides and campaign ideas. Publishers running holiday promotions with us saw revenue rise between 3.7% and 51.4%.

The numbers.

80+

Live publisher accounts, launched since 2021

2.5M+

Books sold to date across the platform

100%

DRM security record – never breached

100+

Countries reached

Bookstores we’ve built.

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Four solutions.
One platform.

Start with Origin. Scale to a fully branded, global enterprise operation.

Where Glassboxx began: a smooth checkout for your digital products. Origin bolts onto your existing eCommerce and delivers eBooks and audiobooks to readers on the Glassboxx app.

Simple set up
Shopify app, WooCommerce plugin or Sales API
Complete DRM on every title
Award-winning customer service

Explore Origin →

Compare at a glance

Capability	Origin	Publisher	Academic	Enterprise
Sell eBooks & audiobooks	✓	✓	✓	✓
Sell print (integrated distributors)	–	✓	✓	✓
One combined print + digital cart	–	✓	✓	✓
Glassboxx reader app	✓	✓	–	✓
Academic Reader app & bulk sales	–	–	✓	–
White-label branded apps	–	–	–	✓
Global merchant services & tax	–	✓	✓	✓
Complete DRM on every title	✓	✓	✓	✓

“We wanted to ensure the best service and shopping experience possible and Glassboxx is helping us to achieve that. Their responsiveness, creativity, and care for our readers has been absolutely outstanding.”

— Princeton University Press

“We had our best ever first day of sales in a paperback sale yesterday, the strike through prices really do work very well!”

— Marketing Executive, UK Academic Publisher

“It’s obvious that moving to Glassboxx has been a great success on its own terms; from July 2023 through February 2025, our D2C business was steadily declining due to changes made by our previous e-commerce partner.”

— Marketing and Sales Director, US University Press