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The Research Center

Your stats tell you about you. The Research Center tells you about the market: aggregate, anonymized signals across the whole platform, which genres are rising, what price bands move units, where readers come from. No individual studio or person is ever identified. Here's what's inside.

Read time about 4 min

1The tabs and what they show

In the Research Center, tabs cover the market from different angles: Overview (readers, reads, signups, titles, units, revenue), Genres (how work spreads across genres), Trends (what's rising and falling over time), Pricing (which price bands sell), Market volume (by asset kind and format), and Audience (coarse device, country, and referrer signals).

Pro note
Check Trends before you start your next series. Riding a rising genre is a lot easier than fighting a falling one.

2Private by design

It's built to be useful without exposing anyone. Every figure is an aggregate, and any number that would come from too few studios is simply withheld, so nothing can be traced back to a single creator or title. You get the shape of the market, never a peek at your neighbour's books.

Access is granted per account by a platform admin. If you don't see the Research Center in your account menu, you haven't been granted it yet.
Pro note
Withheld numbers aren't a bug, they're the privacy promise working. It's the same protection that covers your studio too.

3Take it with you

Every tab has an Export CSV, so you can pull the numbers into your own spreadsheet, chart them your way, or bring them to a pitch. Pick a time window (7, 30, 60, 90 days, or all-time) to see a snapshot or a trend. It's market intelligence you can actually act on.

Pro note
Export the Pricing tab before you price your next book. The data shows where sales cluster.

Scout the market

Know the landscape. Links into the app. Saved on this device.

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Quick questions

No. The Research Center is aggregate and anonymized: no individual studio, title, or person is identified, and any figure from too few studios is withheld entirely.

A platform admin grants it per account. If the Research Center isn't in your account menu, it hasn't been enabled for you yet.

Spot rising genres before you start a series, find the price bands that move units, and understand market volume by kind and format, then export any of it to CSV.

Stats is about your studio's own performance. The Research Center is about the whole platform's market, so you can place your work in context.

You can see the whole market

Genres, pricing, and trends across the market, privately and exportably. Next, try reviewing as a critic.