PREMIUM PUBLISHING FORMAT

Masterfile Digital
Collector Editions

A rich, composable digital publishing format designed for premium content

Multiple Media Formats

Entirely on Your Shopify Site

Sell Individually or Bundle with Physicals

Customized Per Edition

Customize each individual edition to offer a wide variety of options across a single drop.

Responsive Viewer

A responsive experience to enable your customers to consume your content on a variety of devices.

Built for Digital + Physical

Leverage shopify's in-built features and plugin ecosystem to bundle your Masterfiles with physical products

  • PUBLICATIONS

  • ✦

  • WEBTOONS

  • ✦

  • INFINITE SCROLL

  • ✦

  • MUSIC

  • ✦

  • DIGITAL ART

  • ✦

  • LAYERED EDITIONS

  • ✦

  • ZINES

  • ✦

$0.60

$0.60

per edition sold

$149

$149

per month on Retailer Ops today

$50

$50

Creator plan, coming soon

+

+

It all runs on your Shopify store

It all runs on your Shopify store

Editions publish as products in the store you already run. Checkout, customers and payouts stay in Shopify, and the buyer record is yours.

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STEP ONE · MAKE IT

An edition you compose,

not a file you upload

A Masterfile edition is composed from capsules. Each is a different kind of reading, and they ship inside the same edition the reader owns.

Guided reading in the Masterfile reader: the page advances panel by panel, paced the way it was drawn.

Anatomy of a Masterfile

Anatomy of a Masterfile

Anatomy of a Masterfile

A rich digital publishing format made of composable capsules. Combine pages, scrolls, music, layered art, and attachments into a single, immersive edition.

A rich digital publishing format made of composable capsules. Combine pages, scrolls, music, layered art, and attachments into a single, immersive edition.

Pages with Guided View

Pages with Guided View

Panel-by-panel, beautifully guided

Panel-by-panel, beautifully guided

Reader-paced navigation through traditional pages with panel-level guided view — purpose-built for comics, manga, and art books on every screen size.

Reader-paced navigation through traditional pages with panel-level guided view — purpose-built for comics, manga, and art books on every screen size.

Pages with Guided View

Panel-by-panel, beautifully guided

Reader-paced navigation through traditional pages with panel-level guided view — purpose-built for comics, manga, and art books on every screen size.

Scrolls

Scrolls

Vertical, infinite, native to mobile

Vertical, infinite, native to mobile

Continuous-scroll reading for webtoons, manhwa, infinite comics, and mobile-first episodic content.

Continuous-scroll reading for webtoons, manhwa, infinite comics, and mobile-first episodic content.

Scrolls

Vertical, infinite, native to mobile

Continuous-scroll reading for webtoons, manhwa, infinite comics, and mobile-first episodic content.

Music

Music

Sound, embedded in the edition

Sound, embedded in the edition

Albums, EPs, soundtracks, and ambient scores delivered alongside the visual work — playable directly inside the Masterfile.

Albums, EPs, soundtracks, and ambient scores delivered alongside the visual work — playable directly inside the Masterfile.

Music

Sound, embedded in the edition

Albums, EPs, soundtracks, and ambient scores delivered alongside the visual work — playable directly inside the Masterfile.

Layered Art

Layered Art

Pull apart the artwork itself

Pull apart the artwork itself

Toggle the transparent layers of cover and key art to reveal how a piece was composed — from sketch to ink to color to final.

Toggle the transparent layers of cover and key art to reveal how a piece was composed — from sketch to ink to color to final.

Layered Art

Pull apart the artwork itself

Toggle the transparent layers of cover and key art to reveal how a piece was composed — from sketch to ink to color to final.

Attachments

Attachments

Bonus content beyond the media

Bonus content beyond the media

Behind-the-scenes images, downloadable files, scripts, sketches, and special attachments that turn an edition into a real collectors experience.

Behind-the-scenes images, downloadable files, scripts, sketches, and special attachments that turn an edition into a real collectors experience.

Attachments

Bonus content beyond the media

Behind-the-scenes images, downloadable files, scripts, sketches, and special attachments that turn an edition into a real collectors experience.

THE LANDSCAPE

The only option for collector-grade digital publishing on your own website

The only option for collector-grade digital publishing on your own website

Everyone here can take a payment. What separates them is what the reader receives, and who keeps that reader afterwards.

Your Domain

Browser

Downloads

Bundle w/Physicals

Sell on Social

Take Rate

Composable

Masterfile

✅

✅

✅

✅

Native

60¢

✅

Gumroad

Paid plans

✅

✅

❌

Links only

10% + 50¢

❌

Payhip

✅

❌

Files only

✅

Links only

0-5%

❌

GlobalComix

❌

✅

PDF only

❌

Links only

30-35%

❌

Amazon KDP

❌

App or device

❌

❌

Links only

30-65%

❌

Patreon

❌

❌

✅

Limited

Links only

10%

❌

Substack

✅

❌

✅

❌

Links only

10%

❌

Kickstarter

❌

❌

✅

✅

Links only

5%

❌

BackerKit

❌

❌

✅

✅

Links only

5%

❌

Zoop

❌

❌

✅

✅

Links only

7-22%

❌

Rates and terms as published, August 2026. Take rates are headline fees and exclude card processing.

RUN YOUR NUMBERS

What it costs to sell from your own store

Every cost is in here, including the Shopify fees. None of it is a percentage of your work.

Your digital revenue$2,495 /mo
What you pay
Masterfile Retailer OpsCarries Digital Collectors Editions today$149
Masterfile usageFirst 0 free each month, then $0.60 each. 500 billable$300
Your Shopify planPaid to Shopify, not to us$39
Card processing2.9% + $0.30 a sale, paid to Shopify$222
Total cost of selling it yourself$710 /mo
What you keep$1,785 / month, no revenue share72% of $2,495 in sales stays with you.
…and 500 customer records a monthEvery one of those buyers checks out on your own domain and lands in your Shopify customer list, with their email and order history. The relationship is yours, not a platform’s, and the next release goes to them directly.

Cost is only half the question. Creator and Publisher plans are not open yet; today this runs on Retailer Ops.

Talk it through with these numbers
RUN YOUR NUMBERS

What it costs to sell from your own store

Every cost is in here, including the Shopify fees. None of it is a percentage of your work.

Your digital revenue$2,495 /mo
What you pay
Masterfile Retailer OpsCarries Digital Collectors Editions today$149
Masterfile usageFirst 0 free each month, then $0.60 each. 500 billable$300
Your Shopify planPaid to Shopify, not to us$39
Card processing2.9% + $0.30 a sale, paid to Shopify$222
Total cost of selling it yourself$710 /mo
What you keep$1,785 / month, no revenue share72% of $2,495 in sales stays with you.
…and 500 customer records a monthEvery one of those buyers checks out on your own domain and lands in your Shopify customer list, with their email and order history. The relationship is yours, not a platform’s, and the next release goes to them directly.

Cost is only half the question. Creator and Publisher plans are not open yet; today this runs on Retailer Ops.

Talk it through with these numbers

Six formats.
One publishing stack.

Digital Comic

Publish digital comics collectors actually own

Guided view, panel by panel — the flagship Masterfile format.

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Mobile Comic

Webtoons and vertical comics, native to the phone

Infinite vertical scroll for webtoons and mobile-first episodes.

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Track

Sell music as a collectible edition

Albums and soundtracks, playable inside the edition.

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Zine

Zines that outlive the print run

Small-press publishing that outlives the print run.

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Digital Art

Sell art with its layers intact

Layered artwork collectors can pull apart.

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Digital Card

Collectible cards, digitally delivered

Card drops and reveals, straight to the collection.

Explore format →

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We are not a marketplace.

You keep the reader.

See your own editions, your own store and your own customer list running on Masterfile before you decide anything.

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See the Formats

See the Formats

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Comics

Magazines & Zines

Music

Publishers

Retailers Ops

Webtoons

© 2026. All rights reserved.

About

Agency

Comics

Magazines & Zines

Music

Publishers

Retailers Ops

Webtoons

© 2026. All rights reserved.

About

Agency

Comics

Magazines & Zines

Music

Publishers

Retailers Ops

Webtoons