Reader experience
Library
Buy, stream, listen, bookmark, and track progress.
About Sapphyre Dominion
An audiobook marketplace built around readers, creators, and transparent royalty splitting.
Sapphyre Dominion is a prototype audiobook platform for buying, streaming, discovering, and managing audiobooks while giving authors, narrators, publishers, and other rights holders clearer payout visibility.
Creator roles
4+
Authors, narrators, publishers, rights holders.
Royalty model
Split
Participant-based royalty payout planning.
Admin tools
Review
Books, users, payouts, royalties, and reports.
Better for readers
A clean audiobook experience focused on discovery, library ownership, progress tracking, listening tools, and transparent purchasing.
Better for creators
Author, narrator, publisher, and rights holder accounts are treated as first-class roles instead of afterthoughts.
Built around royalties
Royalty splitting, payout readiness, participant approvals, payout holds, and audit trails are part of the platform model from the start.
Mission
Make audiobooks feel fairer, clearer, and easier to support.
The goal is not just to copy a large audiobook store. The goal is to build a marketplace where readers can easily find great audiobooks, creators can understand what they are earning, and the platform can support complex rights relationships without hiding them behind vague reporting.
The current site is still a frontend prototype using mock data, but the structure already represents the major platform needs: public discovery, account-type separation, creator dashboards, royalty split previews, payout setup, admin review queues, and reader listening tools.
Account types
Built for the people involved in an audiobook.
Readers
Buy, stream, save, bookmark, review, and manage audiobooks from a personal library.
Authors
Create public profiles, upload or manage titles, track sales, and receive royalty payouts.
Narrators
Showcase voice samples, claim narration credits, join royalty-share projects, and receive payouts.
Publishers
Manage catalogs, approve rights and royalty splits, track publisher revenue, and support author/narrator teams.
Admins
Review books, users, royalty agreements, payout holds, refunds, reports, and marketplace safety issues.
Roadmap
Where the project goes next.
Phase 1In progress
Public marketplace prototype
Homepage, browsing, book pages, creator profiles, cart, checkout mockup, library, listening player, and admin pages.
Phase 2Next
Real accounts and database
Authentication, account roles, saved libraries, creator dashboards, title uploads, and backend-owned data.
Phase 3Planned
Audio storage and streaming
Protected audiobook files, secure stream URLs, chapter metadata, listening sync, and storage cost controls.
Phase 4Planned
Payments and payout ledger
Checkout provider integration, sales records, refunds, royalty lines, payout holds, creator statements, and audit logs.