This guide covers buying and reading eBooks, publishing your own book, and receiving your earnings on Sọna in Ghana.
Buying and reading · Publishing · Payouts
For Readers in Ghana
Many online bookshops expect a bank card that works for international payments. If you live in Ghana and do not have one, buying an eBook can be harder than it should be.
On Sọna, readers with an account in Ghana can pay with mobile money.
What You Need
- A free Sọna account, with Ghana as your account country.
- A mobile money wallet.
- A phone or tablet for the Sọna Reader app, which is on iOS and Android.
How to Buy a Book
- Create your account. Sign up at readsona.com and choose Ghana as your country.
- Find a book. Browse the catalogue at readsona.com/browse, or search for a title or an author.
- Add it to your cart. You can add more than one book.
- Go to checkout. Sọna shows the payment options for Ghana.
- Choose Mobile Money. You see the full total, including the payment fee, before you pay.
- Complete the payment. The book goes into your library.
Books are bought on the website. You then read them in the Sọna Reader app.
Your Other Payment Options
Mobile money is not the only way to pay from Ghana. At checkout you can also choose:
- 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.
The payment fee differs from one option to another, so compare the totals before you choose.
Why Prices Are in Naira
Sọna was built in Nigeria, and authors set one price in naira. At checkout you see the total for the payment option you pick before you confirm anything.
A Book to Start With
If you want a story close to home, try Love and Brushstrokes by Nana Prah, from her Artists of Ghana series. A guarded therapist and a charismatic painter keep running into each other, and then they have to deal with viral fame and a past that will not stay quiet. It is for readers aged 18 and over.
Love and Brushstrokes
by Nana Prah
A guarded therapist and a charismatic painter collide in a whirlwind of embarrassing encounters…
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and irresistible chemistry. Together, they must navigate viral fame, emotional risks, and a haunting past that threatens their chance at love. Will they be brave enough to let go of their fears and discover a romance that’s anything but temporary? ✨ Opposites attract 🎨 Artist/muse romance 💕 Fake relationship 📱 Viral fame 💍 Wedding setting 🌍 Ghana-set contemporary romance
Show lessYou can also start with a free book. The Offline Girls by Lara T. Kareem is a near-future thriller about a girl who disappears 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 lessIf Mobile Money Does Not Appear
Check the country on your account. Your account country decides which payment options you see. You can change it in your account settings, and then go back to checkout.
For Authors and Publishers in Ghana
Author and publisher accounts on Sọna are open to residents of Ghana. You can upload your book, sell it to readers in Ghana and in other countries, and receive your earnings in a mobile money wallet.
What You Earn
You set one price for your book in naira. You earn 80% of that price on every sale. Sọna keeps 20% as its platform fee.
Readers pay a payment fee on top of your price at checkout. That fee does not come out of your 80%.
How You Are Paid in Ghana
You can choose one of two payout methods.
Mobile money. Sọna supports MTN MoMo, Telecel Cash and AirtelTigo Money. Payouts start from ₦5,000.
Bank account. Payouts to a bank account in Ghana start from ₦10,000.
These minimums apply on every payout schedule. Conversion and transfer charges come out of the amount sent, and each payout record shows the rate and every charge.
Payout Schedule
Monthly payouts are the default. They are processed on the first business day of each month.
In Payout Settings you can switch to weekly payouts on Mondays, or request your available balance once every 7 days. You can also save up until your balance reaches a target you choose. Any amount not yet paid carries forward and stays yours.
Step by Step
- Create your account. Go to readsona.com/publish and choose Ghana as your country.
- Add your payout details. In Payout Settings, choose Mobile Money. Select your provider, then enter your mobile money number and the registered name.
- Wait for verification. Sọna reviews your details and emails you the result. You can prepare your book while you wait, but you can only submit it after verification.
- Upload your book. Use an EPUB or DOCX file for a text book, or a PDF for a picture book, comic or magazine. Add your cover, blurb, genres and age rating.
- Set your price in naira and submit the book for review.
- Share your book link when the book goes live.
Use the Name on Your Wallet
Enter the registered name exactly as it appears on your mobile money wallet. It must match the name on your Sọna account. A different name is the most common reason that verification is delayed.
