Review, publish, and what happens after
Follow a chapter through automatic screening and human review, publish the title and the chapter, preview it as a reader, and see how many people read it.
- ~5 min
- Comfortable
- Part 3 of 3
On this page
Every chapter is screened before it can go live, and many are seen by a person too. Approval clears the way; publishing is still your press.
Before you start
Through review
While a chapter processes, Checking content screens every page. A clean chapter returns to Draft, ready to publish. One the check can't clear — or, while the catalog is young, every chapter — shows Held for review until a moderator looks; after that, a publisher's first chapters, anything flagged, and a sample of Teen+ and Mature work. You get A chapter needs review when it's cleared or paused.
Publish
Publish the title
On the title's page, press Publish at the top.Publish the chapter
Press the chapter's own Publish — or let its schedule do it.
Check it worked
Preview as a reader
On a chapter with pages, Preview as a reader opens it in the reader with a banner — live or not. Only you and your collaborators can open it there, and nothing you do counts as a read.
See who's reading
Once something is published, Readers on the title's page shows the last 30 days: readers of your busiest chapter, reading units, chapters finished, and readers per day — counts only, never who. A chapter's Where readers stop shows how many reached each page, once five people have read it.
If something's off
- “Your publishing account isn't active yet…”
- Staff activate accounts before their first release; you'll hear when it's done.
- “This chapter is waiting on a moderator…”
- Wait for the review. Approval doesn't publish it — press Publish then.
- “Your revenue shares don't add up to 100%…”
- Fix the credits on the title's page and save them.
- “The Comics Publisher Agreement has been updated…”
- Accept the new version on your console home, then publish again.
- “Priced titles need a payout account set up first…”
- This title or chapter has a price and your payout account isn't ready. Finish Get paid, or set it back to Free to read under Pricing on the title's page.
- Readers can see a price but can't open the chapter
- Selling is being tested with accounts we've named, so everyone else has no way to pay. Set it back to Free to read under Pricing on the title's page.
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