About
Printed newsletters are a good business that is far too much work to run.
EditionCove exists to remove the work without taking the business.
Mission
A paid print newsletter should be as easy to run as an email one.
Readers will pay more for something they can hold than for another message in an inbox, and they keep it longer. Writers know this. Most still don't do it, because a printed newsletter today means a payments tool, a mailing-list spreadsheet, an address-cleaning step, a print shop, a trip to the post office or a mail-house account, and a monthly reconciliation of who paid, who moved and who got a copy.
We build the single system that replaces that stack: recurring billing into your own account, one record per reader with a verified address, an entitlement rule that decides who receives each issue, a validated print file locked to a version, and a mailing run that goes to a commercial print-and-mail provider when you click approve. The provider prints, addresses and hands the pieces to USPS. You see what it cost and what it earned.
The goal is narrow on purpose. We are not a general newsletter tool, a CRM or a design app. We are the shortest reliable path from a paying reader to a printed issue in their mailbox, repeated every month.
Principles
Four rules we design against.
They decide what we build and, just as often, what we refuse to.
You own it
Your writing, your subscriber list, your addresses and your payment relationship belong to you. Reader payments go to your own Stripe account. You can export every record at any time, and if you leave, your subscriptions keep running without us.
No royalties, no revenue share
We charge a software subscription and a disclosed markup on the printing and postage we arrange. We do not take a percentage of your subscriptions. A tool that earns more when you earn more sounds aligned; in practice it means the tool is paid for your audience, not for its work.
Transparency over polish
Every estimate is labelled an estimate. Every feature on this site says whether it is live, in testing or coming later. The approve button says what it commits you to. We would rather you trust the numbers than admire them.
Automation is the product
The ideal publisher writes, reviews and approves. Billing, entitlement, address changes, the frozen manifest, the print order and the status updates should happen without anyone touching a spreadsheet. Where that is not yet true, we say so and do it by hand in the meantime.
Where we are
Early access. Here is what that means, specifically.
EditionCove is a new product run by a small team. We would rather tell you exactly what works than let you discover it on a print run.
- LiveWorking today
- Publication setup with validated formats, the issue calendar, PDF upload with validation, version locking, subscriber records with address status, the entitlement engine, the frozen manifest, the approval screen, per-issue cost and profit reporting, the calculator, and operator-managed fulfillment through commercial providers.
- In testingBuilt and in testing
- Live card payments and the reader portal (on Stripe), automatic address verification, the built-in editor and its templates, print preview, data export, and direct API connections to print-and-mail providers, each tested in the provider's sandbox before a live run uses it.
- Coming in a later releaseNot yet started or not finished
- Gift subscriptions, CSV import of existing lists, cohort and churn reports, custom domains, international mailing, and a print-plus-digital plan.
Pricing is introductory and labelled as such. It may change before general availability; any change is announced before it takes effect.
The legal documents are drafts awaiting review by counsel, and each carries a banner saying so.
There are no testimonials on this site because we don't have publishers who have been through a year of issues with us yet. When we do, we will ask them.
Talk to us before you commit.
If you publish, or want to, tell us about your newsletter. We'll tell you honestly whether the platform fits it today.