Distributing to Empik With PublishDrive

Empik is Poland’s largest retailer of books, international press, and media products, capturing 61% of the Polish online book market. With PublishDrive, distribute your ebook or audiobook titles to this leading retailer in no time. Here’s what to know below.

Book formats

Empik accepts both ebook and audiobook titles. See our guide on ebook requirements or audiobook requirements for how to prepare your files. Print is coming soon.

Business model

With PublishDrive, sell your titles to Empik through its a’la carte sales model and subscription model via Empik Go (mobile app). About different pricing models

Empik Go is a subscription mobile app for ebooks and audiobooks:

• Empik offers five subscription types for its customers.
• Over 250,000 users are on the app every month.
• In 2020, audiobooks were most popular by capturing 49% of sales. Ebooks captured 40%.

Market reach

The Polish book market is valued at more than 550M EUR. The market achieved a 9% growth rate in 2020, being one of the fastest-growing book markets in Europe. What else:

• The Polish book market accounts for almost 7% of the European publishing market. 
• Polish ebook sales in 2020 saw a growth of 32% compared to 2019 (despite the pandemic).
• Empik is the leading retailer of online book sales, capturing 61% of the online book market.
• Empik also reaches other territories in East/West Europe and Asia.

Supported languages

Currently, English, Polish, Russian, Spanish and German languages are supported. All languages are coming soon.

Genres

Empik accepts genres of all kinds.

Royalty reporting

You can access your royalty reports from Empik under ‘Royalty Payments’ from your PublishDrive dashboard.

• Royalty reporting happens on a monthly basis
• Royalty payouts happen on a monthly basis

How to enable Empik on PublishDrive

When publishing a new book

Find the option to enable Empik distribution at the last step of the book upload process. 

After submitting and getting approved, we send out your book(s) immediately.

When enabling Empik for an existing book

If you’re already distributing to other stores with PublishDrive, we require no action from you. We send your book(s) to Empik automatically.

If you do not wish to distribute to Empik, you can switch off the channel under ‘Books’ from your PublishDrive account or Imprint settings.

Let us know if you have any questions. Happy publishing!