Today (September 28, 2011), indiePub revealed that it will soon launch a new social-centric, indies-only publishing platform.

indiePub has been developing the new service for about a year and it will officially go live late 2011.

The new indiePub, which will reside at indiePub.com, will combine e-commerce and social networking in a unique way that will allow indie developers to sell, share and market their apps. In fact, anyone will be able to create a Pub (store) to sell digital apps for multiple devices thanks to a distributed delivery system.

indiePub will also use a proprietary API and (optional) digital rights management (DRM) wrapper so almost any digitally distributable game can be a part of the marketplace.

If you want to get a first-hand look at the new service before it goes live, you can register at beta.indiePub.com for a chance to be a part of the indiePub Beta. Anyone can register.

Indie developers who participate in the indiePub Beta program will be able to upload their games and prepare them to be ready for sale when the service goes live.

Be sure to keep checking back here as we'll be offering more details and exclusive sneak peeks of the new indiePub before it launches.

Here's a quote from VP of Gaming, Dave Reynolds, that reveals a little more about the new indiePub:

"We were asked by numerous independent game developers to create a 'Steam for indies.' The new indiePub marketplace will give indie developers a way to tap into the growing multi-billion dollar digital download market and make money with their games by combining innovative crowd-sourced marketing with unique developer-controlled distribution tools. Instead of a site telling them how, when and for how much to sell their games, indiePub will enable publishers to independently control these without limiting distribution to only one or two platforms. We're working to make indiePub run on any device that can download apps."

SITE: indiePub Beta Signup Page