What EarnDraft actually is
EarnDraft is a browser-based AI ebook creator. You describe a book in a sentence. It hands back an outline, then chapters, then a cover, then files you can export, and if you want, a public page where a reader can see a preview and click through to a store.
That is the pitch. The interesting part is the design decision underneath it. Most AI writing tools give you a chat window and a wall of text you then copy somewhere else. EarnDraft keeps one conversation per book beside the book itself: chapters, typed pages, cover, table of contents and page order, all in one editable workspace.
So the real question is not whether an AI can produce five thousand words about balcony gardening. It can. The question is whether you can steer it, correct it, and end up with a file a retailer will accept. That is what you are actually buying.
How the thing works, from one sentence to a finished book
You start with a brief. A sentence is enough: a topic, who it is for, where it should start. EarnDraft generates an outline from that.
Then it stops and waits. You review the outline before any chapter writing begins. That review step is the whole mechanism. It lets you fix the chapter order, the audience and the direction while the plan is still cheap to change.
After you approve, the AI writes chapters or creates pages. You add your own examples, adjust the wording, move things around. The homepage demo shows a five-chapter children’s book about construction diggers, with chapters like “Meet Digger Dan,” “How Diggers Scoop,” “The Site Crew,” “Dig Day and Night” and “Goodnight, Diggers,” and the cover marked ready.
Why the outline step matters more than the writing
Anyone who has written anything long knows where projects die. Not at the typing. At the structure. You write three chapters, realise chapter two should have been chapter one, and the whole thing collapses.
Reviewing an outline first is a cheap way to avoid that. You are not editing prose yet, you are editing a plan. It is the difference between redrawing a floor plan and knocking down a wall.
Editing by asking, and editing by hand
AI editing sits inside the workspace rather than in a separate chat. You can ask it to rewrite a chapter, add an exercise, refine a passage, or generate new artwork.
The homepage gives a concrete example. The request is to add a simple morning exercise readers can fill in. EarnDraft adds a section called “Your one-minute check-in,” with fill-in prompts such as “Today, I want to feel…” and “One small thing I can do is…”. That is a workbook page, generated on request, inside a book that already exists.
You can also just type. Edit text directly, rearrange chapters and pages, upload your own artwork. Manual editing, uploads, rearranging pages and exporting saved content do not consume AI usage, which matters once you understand how the allowance works.
Seven book types, and why the range is the point
EarnDraft supports seven formats: written books, workbooks, cookbooks, guided journals, picture books, coloring books and activity books. Each one is a different product with a different buyer.
Written books are the nonfiction and instructional ebooks you sell. Workbooks give readers prompts and exercises so they can apply the advice instead of just reading it. Cookbooks organise recipes. Guided journals create structured space for reflection. Picture books pair text with artwork for children or general storytelling. Coloring books supply artwork a reader can colour in. Activity books turn learning or participation into play.
The workbook angle is the commercial one
Think about who buys a workbook. A coach who wants something a client can work through between sessions. A consultant packaging a method. A small business turning its advice into a branded customer guide.
The value of a workbook is that the reader does something with it. People tend to pay for structure they can act on, not just for information they could find elsewhere. An AI book generator that can produce exercises, check-in prompts and fill-in pages is doing something a plain text generator does not.
Covers and illustrations without design software
You describe the visual you want: style, subject, colours, mood. EarnDraft generates artwork to match. The homepage example asks for a cheerful cookbook cover with illustrated lemons, tomatoes and herbs on a warm cream background.
You can upload your own images too, which is the option most people will use once they have a brand.
The benefit is narrow and real: you do not need separate design software or a designer to get a cover that does not look embarrassing. It will not replace a good designer for a serious commercial launch. It will get you to a first version today.
Export: PDF everywhere, EPUB and DOCX for written books
Every book can be exported as a PDF. Written books also support EPUB and DOCX.
PDF for sharing, printing, emailing, or uploading to a shop.
EPUB for ebook distribution.
DOCX as an editable format for future revisions.
Exporting saved content does not use AI allowance, and downloads are included even on the free option. EarnDraft describes the exported files as ready to take elsewhere. Checking each retailer’s requirements, and uploading the files to your own seller accounts, stays with you. That is not a small caveat. It is the difference between a tool that prepares a book and a service that publishes one.
Hosted book pages, and what EarnDraft does not do
The platform can publish a public book page and an author page. A book page can show the cover, table of contents, a preview excerpt, a published sample readers can download directly, purchase or retail links, and reader reviews you choose to display. EarnDraft’s terms require those reviews to be honest reader reviews, labelled as creator-reported where applicable; fake reviews and invented testimonials are not allowed.
One point to check before you build a funnel around it. EarnDraft’s help pages describe readers requesting a free copy by email from a book page, with a separate, optional author-updates subscription and an exportable list of consented readers. Its privacy policy, updated October 21, 2026, says the opposite: that it does not currently collect reader emails and that free-book downloads need no email or signup. Until the two documents agree, test the page yourself before promising readers or yourself an email list.
You can point readers toward Amazon KDP, Etsy, Gumroad, Apple Books or anywhere else. EarnDraft does not process the retail transaction and does not take a cut of retail earnings. You manage your own listings, prices, marketplace requirements and retailer accounts.
Publishing limits are set by account type. Signed-in accounts can publish up to three books. Active subscribers can publish up to 25. Existing public pages stay live after cancellation; you can still update or unpublish them, and publishing another book counts against your current limit.
Pricing, and the AI allowance nobody reads carefully
There is a free starting option and a monthly plan.
The free option is listed as $0 to start, no credit card. It includes a starter AI allowance, access to all seven book types, manual editing and downloads. The terms are blunt about what that trial is: capacity depends on the work requested and it does not promise a complete book of any size. So treat the free tier as a look at the workspace, not a free book. It also does not include commercial usage rights, which come with the subscription.
The monthly plan costs $29.00 per month, plus any applicable taxes. It includes an AI allowance that refills every seven days, commercial use rights, optional additional usage, and the ability to publish up to 25 books.
One meter for chat, drafting, rewriting and artwork
AI conversations, drafting, rewriting and generated artwork share one usage meter. There is no separate charge per message, and the terms add that there is no fixed per-chapter credit either. Different AI tasks consume different amounts, and material AI work shows a usage quote before you approve it.
Included capacity does not roll over when the weekly refill happens. If you do not use it, you lose it. That is the single most important sentence in the pricing documentation.
Top-ups, pauses and the fine print
Active subscribers can buy more. The pricing page states that $9.00 adds the equivalent of 100% of one weekly allowance, without changing your next refill date. Purchased capacity does not expire, does not refill automatically, and requires an active subscription to use.
When the allowance runs out, new AI work pauses. Your books and manual editing remain available. You can wait for the next seven-day refill or buy capacity; buying does not automatically restart a paused request. The terms add two details worth knowing: AI work reserves usage before it starts, with unused reserved capacity released once the actual charge is known, and work already performed may consume usage even if a request is stopped or fails.
Commercial rights, copyright, and the honest caveats
Commercial rights are governed by EarnDraft’s terms of service. With an active monthly subscription you get a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the books you generate commercially, including selling them on your own pages, Amazon KDP, Etsy, Gumroad, Apple Books or other marketplaces. You keep your retail earnings, minus whatever the retailer or payment provider charges.
The word that matters is “perpetual.” The subscription is what grants the licence, but the licence does not disappear when the subscription ends: the terms state that commercial rights already granted for books you generated while subscribed survive termination. In practice the rule is simple. Books you create while subscribed stay licensed for commercial use after you cancel. Books you create on the free trial, or after cancelling, do not come with that licence. EarnDraft’s own homepage blurs this with the shorthand “commercial use while subscribed,” so read the terms rather than the pricing card.
You own your original ideas, prompts, uploads and manual edits. Copyright in the AI-generated material is a different matter: it depends on sufficient human authorship and on applicable law. EarnDraft says so plainly, and warns that AI output may not be unique and may resemble other text. Review and edit before you publish anything.
Accuracy, copyright and AI disclosure are your job. EarnDraft does not answer retailer disclosure questions on your behalf. You have to read the current AI-content rules for each marketplace and disclose where required. The terms also warn that AI output can be generic, outdated or wrong, particularly in medical, legal, financial and technical subjects, and that generated books are not professional advice.
For context on the retail side, KDP’s help pages state that the 70% ebook royalty option now covers list prices from $2.99 to $12.99 on Amazon.com, up from a $9.99 ceiling that had stood since 2007. The 70% option still has its own eligibility rules, including a delivery fee deducted before the royalty is calculated. That is a pricing decision you make in your own KDP account, not something EarnDraft sets for you.
Privacy: what happens to your drafts
Draft and unpublished books are private to your account and are not indexed by search engines until you publish them. EarnDraft states that it does not sell manuscripts or show private drafts to other users.
Some numbers from the privacy policy, last updated October 21, 2026: guest preview books expire after 72 hours unless saved to an account, the guest identity cookie lasts seven days and renews when you begin another book, and the optional browser measurement cookie lasts 90 days, with visitor attribution retained for up to 90 days.
Deleting your account removes manuscripts, covers and hosted pages from live systems, but deletion from live storage does not immediately erase provider backups or logs. Closed-account financial records are kept by default for seven years after deletion completes or after the latest financial activity, whichever is later. Card details go to Polar, the merchant of record, and never to EarnDraft’s servers.
Text generation runs on DeepSeek models, routed through Vercel AI Gateway, and image models handle artwork. Prompts and relevant book content may be processed by third-party AI providers under their own retention and model-improvement terms, so do not paste in anything confidential you are not allowed to share.
How to make a sellable ebook with AI, in practice
The tool is not the hard part. The decisions are. Here is a workflow that uses what the platform actually gives you.
Pick a promise narrow enough to keep. “Dinners for two in under 30 minutes” beats “cooking.” The homepage suggestions are all narrow: balcony gardening, dinners for two, a morning routine.
Write the brief with the audience in it. Who is reading, what do they already know, what should they be able to do at the end. The outline inherits all of it.
Edit the outline like you mean it. Cut a chapter. Move one. This is the cheapest editing you will ever do on the project.
Draft, then add what the AI cannot know. Your examples, your numbers, your client stories. That material is also what strengthens your copyright position.
Generate the cover, then check it at thumbnail size. Most buyers see the cover small, in a store listing, next to twenty others.
Export, then read the retailer’s rules yourself. File format, metadata, AI disclosure. EarnDraft does not do this step for you.
Publish the page and point it at your store. Preview, sample download, purchase link. EarnDraft stays out of the transaction.
One expectation to set before you start. EarnDraft’s own about page states the base rate honestly: a debut ebook with no audience typically sells in the tens per month, not the hundreds. The tool removes production cost. It does not remove the need for an audience.
What it does not do, and where it stops
No store upload. No sales processing. No cut of your earnings, which is the flip side of doing those things yourself. The pages we checked describe a browser tool, with no desktop or mobile apps and no public API mentioned.
AI drafting needs real editing and fact-checking before anything goes out under your name. That is not a flaw specific to this platform. It is the nature of generated text, and EarnDraft says as much in its own terms.
Author accounts are restricted to adults aged 18 and older. Subscriptions renew monthly until cancelled, with no minimum term. Unused purchased usage is refundable within 14 days of purchase, while subscriptions run to the end of the paid period and are not refunded for unused time. Billing, invoices, taxes and cancellation run through Polar as merchant of record.
People Also Ask
What happens to my books and pages if I cancel?
Your access continues until the end of the period you already paid for. After that, new AI work pauses, but your books stay in your account and manual editing remains available. Exporting saved content does not use AI allowance, and downloads are part of the free tier. Purchased top-up capacity is kept until you subscribe again. Existing public pages stay live unless you unpublish them or they are removed under the service terms.
Can I sell an EarnDraft book on Amazon KDP or Etsy?
Yes, if you created it while holding an active subscription, which grants a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive commercial licence that survives cancellation. You upload the exported file to each store yourself, set your own price, and answer that marketplace’s AI-disclosure questions. EarnDraft never handles the transaction or takes a percentage of your sales.
Who owns the copyright in an AI-generated book?
Not EarnDraft: your ideas, prompts, uploads and manual edits stay yours. What is less clear-cut is the generated text and artwork, since copyright there turns on how much human authorship went into it and on the law where you live. That is why the company advises reviewing and editing before publishing, and why it flags that output may not be unique and could resemble other books.
What does extra AI usage cost after the weekly allowance runs out?
$9.00 buys the equivalent of 100% of one weekly allowance. Purchased capacity does not expire and does not refill on its own, but it needs an active subscription to use. Unused purchased usage is refundable within 14 days of purchase, and included weekly capacity never rolls over.
The short version
EarnDraft is a workspace, not a magic button. You get an outline you review, chapters you edit, a cover you describe, files you export, and a page you point at a store. The AI allowance is metered weekly and does not roll over. The commercial licence comes with the subscription and stays with the books you made while subscribed. The publishing, the disclosure and the selling are yours.
That is a fair trade. Understand where the money and the responsibility sit, and the rest is just work.
Additional Resources
This article includes content created with AI.