PRE-LAUNCH · WAITLIST OPEN
Turn your digital audience into print subscribers.
Flokbird sells subscriptions to your own magazine. You prepare the issue; we print it and post it to every subscriber.
- NO STOCK RISKEvery copy printed is a copy already sold.
- NO UPFRONT COSTSubscriptions are collected 30 days ahead.
- WORLDWIDE POSTTracking reaches readers within six days.
THE PROBLEM
Your readers live on a screen.
A feed is forgotten
Inboxes are crowded and open rates keep falling. Attention leaves no object behind.
Print is closed off
Traditional publishing asks for capital up front, high minimums and a logistics chain.
There is no bridge
Nothing turns an online readership into paying print subscribers in one flow.
HOW IT WORKS
Three steps, then it is out of your hands.
Upload the issue
You send the PDF, pick a format and set the subscription price yourself.
Subscriptions lock
Readers subscribe and renew. Demand and addresses are locked 30 days before press.
Press and post
Flokbird batch-prints the issue and posts every copy to the reader's door.
Files go to press in regional print houses, so a copy travels the shortest route to its reader.
PRODUCT
The creator prepares the issue; we carry the rest.
The file goes up, the format and price are set. On the day subscriptions close, addresses lock and the job moves to the printer.
THE DIFFERENCE
Subscription first, press second.
PRINT-ON-DEMAND TODAY
- High per-unit cost
- No subscription engine
- Setup left to the creator
- One-off sales
FLOKBIRD
- Press pricing per unit
- Recurring revenue
- Zero unsold stock
- Full automation, zero operational hassle
What Flokbird is not
WE ARE
- Subscription infrastructure for a printed issue
- The printing, address and shipping operation
- A channel where the creator sets the price
WE ARE NOT
- A social network or a content feed
- A digital store selling PDFs
- An ad-funded publishing platform
FORMATS
Build your format.
Size, extent, inside paper, cover and binding. The options are standardised, which is what keeps production batched and the unit cost down.
YOUR SPEC
- Size
- B5
- Extent
- 48 pages
- Inside paper
- Silk 115 gsm
- Cover
- Matt cover
- Binding
- Saddle stitch
Every combination goes to press batched with other issues, so there is no minimum order.
Reserve this specPRICING
You set the price.
You decide what a subscription to your publication costs. Flokbird takes production and postage out of that price. What is left is yours.
EXAMPLE BREAKDOWN
- Reader Subscription
- $15
- Printing & Shipping
- $6.50
- Flokbird 20%
- $3
- Net Creator Revenue
- $5.50
- x1000 subscribers
- $5,500
Illustrative figures. Final rates depend on format and destination.
FOUNDER
"The problem Flokbird solves is one I have been solving in another sector for a decade."
Ferhat Kondur — Founder
- Ten years in printing and publishing production.
- Founded Packpeer, sourcing from a network of 500+ manufacturers for global brands.
WAITLIST
Make something a reader can hold.
Leave your address and Flokbird writes to you before the first issues go to press.