PaperviewSell your content.
Keep your audience.
Paperview is a DRM for HTML/payments solution that turns any article, book, or paper into a one-click purchase — on your site, under your brand, at prices you set. No aggregator. No app. No lost traffic.
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This is the whole transaction. No redirect, no new tab.
One system, three industries.
A news editor, a book publisher, and a research publisher deliver content in three different ways. Here's how Paperview enables superior results to all three.
News
Live since 2018From pay-per-article to subscription, without leaving your page.
Readers won't subscribe to everything. Paperview enables an engaging proposition suitable for each stage of reader loyalty.
- Content sales by edition, article, verticals, subscriptions and bundles
- Out of the box compatibility with major Publishing tools and CMS
- Full, real-time, control over content pricing
- Monetizing rival customer bases
- Churned readers remain valuable customers
Books
Onboarding publishersStreaming books, built for the browser — not the download.
Move beyond EPUB. bbooks turns a PDF into a protected, streamable HTML5 book — no downloads, no device conversion, no file left behind after the sale.
Based on Paperview, bbooks delivers premium experience, same DRM protection and one click impulse purchase, for instant gratification.
- Mass-upload tooling — convert a backlist from PDF in bulk, not title by title
- Built-in AI audio narration, no separate production step
- Dual layout, graphical experience and AI generated responsive design for mobile
- Detailed analytics, including aggregated global market data
Already live with publishers including Guerra e Paz and Princípia — more than 400 books and magazines streaming today.
See bbooks live → · Talk to us about Books →Research
Built on the same stackThe same stack, aimed at a harder problem.
Reports say Sci-Hub holds most paywalled research — for some big publishers, nearly everything they've published. No DRM eliminates that kind of leakage. What a genuinely harder-to-redistribute format can do is raise the cost of it, and convert the readers who'd pay if it were easy enough.
It also opens doors a PDF never could: a paper can embed a rotatable 3D model, an interactive simulation, or video directly in the page — not just a caption pointing to a supplementary file.
- HTML5 streaming protection — the same format already protecting books, extended to Papers
- One-click wallet checkout — any reader with a Paperview wallet can pay instantly, no new account
- Publisher-controlled pricing — per paper, per issue, bundled, or by subscription, same as News and Books
- Embedded, not aggregated — papers stay on your domain, still indexed and citable, never redirected elsewhere
The reader never leaves your site.
Every pay-per-content platform before Paperview asked publishers to send readers somewhere else. Like Blendle...
Paperview is a button on your own paywall, or on your own page.
Debunking the Blendle myth →Your domain and your brand. Your first-party data. Your search rankings. Your social shares. Your reader relationship.
We just handle the transaction.
Giving away your traffic, your data, your SEO, and your brand relationship to someone else's app.
You set the price. Revenue share, the fee follows the content.
Sell editions, articles, sections, bundles, or subscriptions — separately or together. Paperview's fee isn't one flat number; it depends on what you publish and, for Press, how much a piece costs.
Under €5: 15% fee. €5 or more: 10% fee. Click a price above €5 to see it shift.
Flat 9% fee, always — books are priced above €1 by default.
Flat 12% fee, always — papers are priced above €1 by default.
Readers arrive already able to pay.
Anyone who's bought from another Paperview-enabled publisher checks out on your site in one click — no signup, no new card entry.