# Getting La visita onto Bajalibros: no public publisher signup; the store runs on publica.la, whose Marketplace is the open door

Harvested 31 Oct 2026 (skills harvest). The last run found StreetLib's partner list has **no** Bajalibros (`streetlib-one-299-eur-no-free-plan-gandhi-listed-bajalibros-not.md`). This run looked for Bajalibros' own sign-up page for publishers. Proposals only: no account was opened.

## What the pages show (read 31 Oct 2026)
- **No publisher sign-up on Bajalibros itself.** The live site (ar.bajalibros.com) has only reader pages in its footer: FAQ, privacy, terms, and one support email. The FAQ is a reader FAQ. Nothing there invites publishers.
- **Bajalibros runs on publica.la.** The terms read: "la Plataforma proporcionada por **Queryloop Inc** para Bajalibros Argentina". The privacy policy reads: "QUERYLOOP, INC., en adelante denominada **'publica.la'**". The footer also carries "© 2025 **Infobae**", the Argentine news group now behind the brand.
- **publica.la's own case study of Bajalibros** (publica.la/en/case-studies/bajalibros):
  - stores in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Spain from one back end, each with "local branding, currency and payment methods";
  - **+20%** total revenue in the first year after the international stores launched;
  - **30%** of 2024's new subscriptions came from Colombia and **25%** from Mexico;
  - **10,000+** app downloads in Spain in Q1 2025.
  - Bajalibros sells single copies **and** subscriptions. Live ARS prices seen: **ARS 12,499–14,599** for translated romance titles.
- **The publica.la Marketplace** (publica.la/en/features/marketplace): "Publish your titles to the Marketplace and every bookshop in the network becomes a potential sales channel".
  - The content owner sets the sale price and the discount terms, and the platform splits each sale automatically.
  - Allow and block lists control which stores may sell the book.
  - Stores "browse the Marketplace, add products to your inventory". **So each store chooses**: listing in the Marketplace does not guarantee that Bajalibros picks the title up.
- **Publisher plans** (publica.la/en/pricing):
  - **Revenue Share:** **$0 a month**, **35%** commission per sale plus **$0.25** per transaction on its own checkout. Includes "Upload content to the marketplace — to be sold by publica.la's bookshop network".
  - **Growth:** $249 a month, 25%. **Enterprise:** from $492 a month, 15%.
- **Author plan, publica.now** (publica.now home, read): **15% + USD 0.30 per sale**, "sin cuota mensual ... y sin comisión extra por aparecer en el marketplace". Their example: a USD 20 work leaves USD 16.74. A "Founding Authors" offer at 10% for the first 100 creators is shown as taken ("100 creadores ya tomaron").
- **Not checked**, because the sign-up pages sit behind a bot challenge (403):
  - whether a UK company can sign up and be paid;
  - which currency a Marketplace price is set in, and whether Bajalibros shows it in ARS;
  - what reseller discount Bajalibros expects.

## Numbers for one title
- **Our own publica.now store:** at an ARS-equivalent of about USD 5, we keep about USD 3.95 per sale, using publica.now's own formula of 15% + 0.30.
- **Through Bajalibros on Marketplace terms:** we set the reseller discount, and the store keeps it. A **40%** discount, typical in the trade (**our assumption, not their figure**), on a USD 5 book leaves about USD 3 before platform fees.
- **Compared with StreetLib One:** €299 once, but no Bajalibros. publica.la costs **nothing up front** and reaches the one store StreetLib can't, so it is the zero-spend candidate.

## How-to
1. Open a **publica.now** (author) or **publica.la Revenue Share** (publisher) account in a browser. A human may need to pass the bot check.
2. Upload the EPUB with complete metadata, our own ISBN and language `es`. Titles must be "fully processed" before they can be offered to the network.
3. Set the sale price per currency:
   - **ARS** for Argentina;
   - **EUR** equal to the Spanish fixed price (`spain-fixed-book-price-ley-10-2007-ebooks-one-euro-price.md`);
   - **MXN** in line with `mexico-spanish-ebook-kobo-mxn-amazon-mx-35pct-gandhi.md`.
4. Publish the title to the **Marketplace**. Allow-list Bajalibros, or leave it open, and set a reseller discount.
5. Ask publica.la support (or the Bajalibros address on its own site) to **add the title to the Bajalibros inventory**. This is first contact, so it is the **owner's call** and goes as a draft only.
6. Check for the title on ar.bajalibros.com, and on the MX/CO/ES stores, every week until it appears. Log the date.

## How we apply it to Cedwyn
- **La visita (Spanish EPUB) → Bajalibros:** PROPOSAL, zero spend, owner's go needed because it opens an account and contacts a company. Run the publica.la Revenue Share or publica.now route above.
  - This replaces the old "StreetLib Basic → Bajalibros" idea, which the last run disproved.
  - It keeps the reason Bajalibros mattered: Chubut buyers pay in **ARS** and avoid the 30% card surcharge on our GBP checkout (`argentina-card-surcharges-30pct-ebook-checkout-es.md`).
- **Draft for the owner** (HubSpot draft only, never sent by an agent): one short Spanish note to publica.la asking:
  - (a) whether a UK publisher can join Revenue Share and be paid in GBP or USD;
  - (b) whether Marketplace prices can be set in ARS;
  - (c) how a title is proposed to Bajalibros.
- **Side benefit:** publica.la lists free EPUB and EPUB accessibility checkers on its site. They are browser-based, so there is nothing to install. They are a second opinion beside `epub-accessibility-check-no-install-ace-app-pubcoder-thorium.md`.
- **Watch:** Bajalibros' Spain store also sells into Spain, so any EUR price there must equal the fixed price on every other channel.

## Sources (read 31 Oct 2026)
- Bajalibros terms (Queryloop Inc): ar.bajalibros.com
- Bajalibros privacy (QUERYLOOP, INC. = publica.la): ar.bajalibros.com (search snippet)
- Bajalibros FAQ and footer: ar.bajalibros.com
- publica.la case study, BajaLibros: publica.la
- publica.la Marketplace: publica.la
- publica.la pricing: publica.la
- publica.now (author plan, 15% + USD 0.30): publica.now
- EbooksDepository about page (part of publica.la; 1,041,000+ titles indexed): ebooksdepository.com