Publishing a book today rarely means one file, one store. Frontlist is where I stopped losing track of which format of which book was actually live.
A single title might need an ebook on KDP, a paperback through IngramSpark, an audiobook on ACX, and a wide ebook release through Draft2Digital, all at different stages, all with different rules.
Add a second title, a third, a series, and it stops being something you can track in your head. Which format of which book is actually live? Which one is stuck in formatting? Which platform can't take a title yet because it's still locked into Kindle Unlimited? Most authors end up with the answer scattered across a spreadsheet, a notes app, and a memory that's supposed to hold all of it at once.
Every format of every title moves through its own pipeline: manuscript, edit, cover, formatting, proofread, uploaded, live. A paperback and an ebook of the same book can sit at completely different stages, and Frontlist shows you both without you having to remember which is which.
For every format, Frontlist automatically lays out every platform that format can go on, and lets you mark each one not started, submitted, live, or blocked, with a note for why. Enroll a title in KDP Select and Frontlist understands that every other ebook platform is off the table until that exclusivity ends.
Coming off KDP Select and publishing everywhere at once. Needs to know exactly which platform is actually clear to submit to today.
Six books in a series, or a backlist of guides and workbooks, each in ebook, paperback, and audio. One shelf, not eighteen spreadsheet rows.
Coloring books, activity books, journals, cookbooks. Different formats, different storefronts, same need to know what's still missing.
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