Sọna is an eBook store and reading app that began in Nigeria. Reader accounts are open to everyone, and author accounts are open to residents of South Africa. This guide covers both sides.
For Readers in South Africa
How to Pay
With South Africa as your account country, you see these payment options at checkout:
- International Card. A card from any country.
- USDT / USDC. Payment from a crypto wallet.
- Bank Transfer (Naira). For readers who have a Nigerian bank account.
You see the full total, including the payment fee, before you pay. Mobile money is offered in 21 other African countries, and South Africa is not one of them at present.
How to Buy and Read
- Create a free account at readsona.com and choose South Africa as your country.
- Find a book at readsona.com/browse and add it to your cart.
- Check out with the payment option you prefer.
- Open the book in the Sọna Reader app for iOS or Android.
Prices are set in naira, because authors set one price in that currency. The total for your payment option is shown before you confirm.
What to Read First
Try a free book before you spend anything. The Offline Girls by Lara T. Kareem is a near-future thriller about a girl who goes missing when her safety implant fails to send an alert.
The Offline Girls
by Lara T. Kareem
In 2059, the Girl-Child Safety Implant is supposed to make one thing impossible— a girl…
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disappearing without a trace. Then seventeen-year-old Kulu goes to the market and never comes home. Her implant never sends a distress alert. When Rakiya checks the system, Kulu’s status eventually changes to two words she has seen before: Offline (Error). Rakiya’s university research has already uncovered strange failures in the safety network serving rural communities. Kulu’s disappearance turns those anomalies into something personal. Other girls have vanished the same way, all from underfunded regions still running outdated firmware. As Rakiya follows the data and speaks to the families left behind, a pattern begins to emerge. These girls are not simply falling through the cracks. Someone knows exactly how to make them disappear.
Show lessThen browse by genre: romance, contemporary fiction or thriller.
For Authors and Publishers in South Africa
What You Earn
You set one price in naira and earn 80% of it on every sale. Sọna keeps 20% as its platform fee.
How You Are Paid
Payouts go to your bank account in South Africa and start from ₦15,000. This minimum applies on every payout schedule. We set this level so that conversion and transfer charges do not take too large a share of a small payout. Those charges come out of the amount sent, and each payout record shows the rate and every charge.
Monthly payouts are the default, on the first business day of each month. You can switch to weekly payouts on Mondays, request your balance once every 7 days, or save up to a target you choose.
How to Publish
- Create your account at readsona.com/publish and choose South Africa as your country.
- Add your bank details in Payout Settings and wait for verification.
- Upload your book as an EPUB or DOCX file, or as a PDF for a picture book, comic or magazine.
- Set your price in naira and submit the book for review.
Related Guides
- More Ways to Pay on Sọna
- Who Can Publish on Sọna? Countries, Payments, and Payouts Explained
- Every country's payout details: readsona.com/payouts
