<dd>Please email us at <ahref="mailto:support@gluejar.com">support@gluejar.com</a>. We want to make sure everything on the site runs as smoothly as possible. Thanks for helping us do that.</dd>
<dd><ahref="/">Unglue.it</a> is a a place for individuals and institutions to join together to make their favorite ebooks free to the world. We work with authors, publishers, or other rights holders who decide on fair compensation for releasing a free, legal edition of their already-published books, under <ahref="http://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a> licensing. Then pledges and sales build toward that sum. When the threshold is reached, we make sure the rights holder issues an unglued digital edition; you're free to read and share it, with everyone, on the device of your choice, worldwide.</dd>
<li> In a <i>Pledge Campaign</i>, book lovers pledge their support for ungluing a book. If enough support is found to reach the goal (and only then), the supporter's credit cards are charged, and an unglued ebook is released.</li>
<li> In a <i>Buy-to-Unglue Campaign</i>, every ebook copy sold moves the book's ungluing date closer to the present. And you can donate ebooks to your local library- that's something you can't do in the Kindle or Apple Stores!
<dd>Crowdfunding is collectively pooling contributions (or pledges) to support some cause. Using the internet to coordinate means that complete strangers can work together, drawn by a common cause. This also means the number of supporters can be vast, so individual contributions can be as large or as small as people are comfortable with, and still add up to enough to do something amazing.<br/><br/>
Want to see some examples? <ahref="http://www.kickstarter.com/">Kickstarter</a> lets artists and inventors solicit funds to make their projects a reality. For instance, webcomic artist Rich Burlew sought $57,750 to reprint his comics in paper form -- and raised <ahref="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/599092525/the-order-of-the-stick-reprint-drive">close to a million</a>.<br/><br/>
In other words, crowdfunding is working together to support something you love. By pooling resources, big and small, from all over the world, we can make huge things happen.</dd>
<dd>Unglue.it is free to join. Many of the things you can do here -- discovering books, adding them them to your list, downloading unglued books, commenting, sharing -- are free too.
<br/><br/> If you choose to support a Pledge Campaign, you may pledge whatever amount you're comfortable with. Your credit card will only be charged if the campaign reaches its goal price.<br/><br/> If you choose to buy an unglue.it ebook, you can read it anywhere you like - there's no restrictive DRM.
If you hold the electronic rights to a book, starting campaigns is free, too. You only pay Unglue.it a fraction of your revenue. For the basics on campaigns, see the FAQ on <ahref="/faq/campaigns/">Campaigns</a>; for more details, see the <ahref="/faq/rightsholders/">FAQ for Rights Holders</a>.</dd>
To fund a campaign, or buy an ebook, you'll need a valid credit card. To start a campaign, you'll need to establish yourself with us as a rights holder, including demonstrating that you have the rights to the content you want to unglue. See the FAQs <ahref="/faq/rightsholders/">for Rights Holders</a> for more.</dd>
<dd>When you buy a book, you get a copy for yourself. When you unglue it, you give a copy to yourself and contribute towards making it free to everyone.</dd>
<dd>You get a better ebook. Your unglued ebook has no restrictive DRM: you can put it on any device you want, in any format you want. You can read it on the network or off, with no one tracking your reading.<br/><br/>
<dd>No. When you unglue a book, the copyright stays with its current owner. Unglue.it does not buy copyrights. A <ahref="http://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a> license is a licensing agreement. As with other licensing agreements, it grants certain rights to others but does not affect the status of the copyright.<br/><br/>
Just like many traditional publishing transactions, ungluing is about licensing rights. We use <ahref="http://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a> licenses which allow creators to choose the ways in which their works can be copied, shared and re-used.<br/><br/>
If you are a copyright holder, you retain your copyright when you unglue a book. Creative Commons licenses are non-exclusive, so you also retain the right to enter into separate licensing agreements. You can read more about these licenses at the <ahref="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions">Creative Commons FAQ</a>.</dd>
<dd>No! You are free to enter into additional licensing agreements for other, non-unglued, editions of the work, including translation and film rights. You may continue to sell both print and ebook editions. You may use your unglued books as free samples to market your other works -- for instance, later works in the same series. You can use them to attract fans who may be interested in your speaking engagements, merchandise, or other materials. You absolutely may continue to profit from ungluing books -- and we hope you do!
<dd>Unglue.it is not a publisher. If you self-publish, Unglue.it can help you distribute your ebooks, if they meet our technical quality standards. </dd>
<dd>A rights holder is the person (or entity) that holds the legal right to copy, distribute, or sell a book in some way. There may be one entity with all the rights to a work, or the rights may be split up among different entities: for example, one who publishes the print edition in the United States, another who publishes the print edition in the EU, another who holds electronic rights, et cetera. For ungluing purposes, the rights holder is the entity who has uncontested worldwide commercial rights to a work.<br/><br/>
If you have written a book and not signed any contracts about it, you hold all the rights. If you have signed a contract with a publisher to produce, distribute, publish, or sell your work in a particular format or a particular territory, whether or not you still hold rights depends on the language of that contract. We encourage you to check your contracts. It may be in your interest to explore launching an Unglue.it campaign jointly with your publisher.<br/><br/>
If you haven't written a book but you have had business or family relationships with someone who has, it's possible that you are a rights holder (for instance, you may have inherited rights from the author's estate, or your company may have acquired them during a merger). Again, this all depends on the specific language of your contracts. We encourage you to read them closely. Unglue.it cannot provide legal advice.<br/><br/>
If you believe you are a rights holder and would like to your works to be unglued, please contact us at <ahref="mailto:rights@gluejar.com">rights@gluejar.com</a>.</dd>
<dd>Great! Find it in our database (using the search box above) and add it to your list, so we know it should be on our list, too. And encourage your friends to add it to their wishlists. The more wishlists a book is on, the more appealing it is for authors and publishers to launch an ungluing campaign. You can also contact us at <ahref="mailto:rights@gluejar.com">rights@gluejar.com</a>.</dd>
<dd>Fabulous! Please refer to the <ahref="/faq/rightsholders/">FAQ for Rights Holders</a> and then contact us at <ahref="mailto:rights@gluejar.com">rights@gluejar.com</a>. Let's talk.</dd>
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<dd>Check your spam folder for mail from notices@gluejar.com. If that doesn't work, contact us at <ahref="mailto:support@gluejar.com">support@gluejar.com</a>.</dd>
<dd>Click on the edit icon: <imgsrc="/static/images/header/icon-edit.png"alt="Edit Your Profile"/>at the top right of your user page. (If you're logged in, your profile page is <ahref="/">here</a>.) Some new options will appear. You can enter your personal URL and your LibraryThing username here. There are one-click options to connect your Twitter, Facebook, and GoodReads accounts. (You'll be asked to log in to those accounts, if you aren't logged in already.) Make sure to click "Save Settings".</dd>
<dd>If you connect your Facebook or Twitter accounts, we'll use your user pics from those sites for your avatar here. If you connect to LibraryThing or GoodReads, you can import your books there onto your wishlist here, using the My Profile area. And we'll display book-specific and you-specific links to those sites for you.</dd>
<dd>At the bottom of every page there's a link to an <ahref="{% url regluit.frontend.views.edit_user %}">account editing page</a> where you can change your profile name, password, and email.</dd>
If you receive our newsletter, there's a link at the bottom of every message to manage your preferences. If you don't and would like to, you can <ahref="http://eepurl.com/fKLfI">sign up here</a>.
<dd>Short version: no, except as absolutely required to deliver services you have opted into. If you have pledged to a campaign and are owed a premium, we will share your email with campaign managers so that they can deliver premiums to you; you are not required to share any further information and they are required to comply with our privacy policy in handling your information. We do use third-party providers to support some of our business functions, but they are only allowed to use your information in order to enable your use of the service. For the long version, please read our <ahref="/privacy/">privacy policy</a>.
<dd>For support requests, <ahref="mailto:support@gluejar.com">support@gluejar.com</a>. For general inquiries, use our Ask Questions Frequently account, <ahref="mailto:aqf@gluejar.com">aqf@gluejar.com</a>. For rights inquiries, <ahref="mailto:rights@gluejar.com">rights@gluejar.com</a>. Media requests, <ahref="mailto:press@gluejar.com">press@gluejar.com</a></dd>
<dd>We are a small group that believes strongly that ebooks can make the world richer in new and diverse ways, and that we all benefit from the hard work of their creators. We come from the worlds of entrepreneurship, linked data, physics, publishing, education, and library science, to name a few. You can learn more about us at our <ahref="/about">about page</a> or our Unglue.it supporter profiles: <ahref="{% url supporter 'eric' %}">Eric Hellman</a>, <ahref="{% url supporter 'AmandaM' %}">Amanda Mecke</a>, <ahref="{% url supporter 'rdhyee' %}">Raymond Yee</a>, <ahref="{% url supporter 'luclewitanski' %}">Luc Lewitanski</a> and <ahref="{% url supporter 'andromeda' %}">Andromeda Yelton</a>.</dd>
<dd>No. Gluejar, the parent company of Unglue.it, is a for-profit company with a public-spirited mission. We work with both non-profit and commercial partners.</dd>
<dd>Because legal stickiness means you can't reliably lend or share your ebooks, borrow them from the library, or read them on the device of your choice. Because -- like public radio -- ebooks are expensive to create but cheap to distribute, so covering their fixed costs and reasonable profit up front can be an appealing system for authors, publishers, readers, and libraries. Because we all have books we love so much we want to give them to the world.</dd>
<dd>To start a campaign, you need to be a verified rights holder who has signed a Platform Services Agreement with us. If you hold the commercial rights for one or more works, please consult the <ahref="/faq/rightsholders/">FAQ for Rights Holders</a> and then contact <ahref="mailto:rights@gluejar.com">rights@gluejar.com</a> to start the process.</dd>
<dd>On every book page there is a More... tab. If you have a signed Platform Services Agreement on file, one of the options on the More... tab will be "Claim This Work". If you represent more than one rights holder, choose the correct one for this work and click "Claim".<br/><br/>If you expect to see that and do not, either we do not have a PSA from you yet, or we have not yet verified and filed it. Please contact us at <ahref="mailto:rights@gluejar.com">rights@gluejar.com</a>.</dd>
<dd>You need to claim a work before you will be able to start a campaign for it. Additionally, we're working new features for verified rights holders which will help you show off your works and connect to your readers. Claiming your works will let you take advantage of these features in the future.</dd>
<dd>If you're looking for a specific book, search for it. The book's page becomes a campaign page when its campaign starts. Your bookmarks and widgets for that book will still work.<br/><br/>
If you want to find an interesting campaign and don't have a specific book in mind, see the Explore sidebar (on almost any page except the FAQs) for some of our favorites.</dd>
<dt>Why does it say a book's campaign has been suspended or withdrawn?</dt>
<dd>If there is a dispute between Gluejar and the book's rights holder, or if we discover evidence that a book's rights are in dispute after launching a campaign, it may be necessary for us to withdraw or suspend the campaign.</dd>
<dd>Yes. In fact, campaign managers are encouraged to update their supporters about the progress of the campaign. Note that the campaign's deadline cannot be changed and its target may not be increased, though it may be lowered.</dd>
<dd>Yes. Again, while the deadline cannot be changed and the threshold cannot be increased, campaign managers are encouraged to add thank-you messages for supporters and update them on the progress of ebook conversion (if needed).</dd>
<dd>When a book has an active ungluing campaign, its book page turns into its Pledge Campaign page. This means that, in addition to the standard book page information, it also features rewards for different pledge tiers; a Support button; and information supplied by the campaign manager (typically the author or publisher) about the book and the campaign.</dd>
<dd>There's a Support button on all Pledge Campaign pages, or you can just click on the premium you'd like to receive. You'll be asked to select your premium and specify your pledge amount; choose how you'd like to be acknowledged, if your pledge is $25 or more; and enter your credit card information.</dd>
<dd>In most cases, your account will be charged by the end of the next business day after a Pledge Campaign succeeds. If a campaign doesn't succeed, you won't be charged.</dd>
<dd>You can modify your pledge by going to the book's page and clicking on the "Modify Pledge" button. (The "Support" button you clicked on to make a pledge is replaced by the "Modify Pledge" button after you pledge.)</dd>
<dd>Pledgers are indicated on the book's page. In addition, when ungluing campaigns are successful, you'll be acknowledged in the unglued ebook as follows:<br/>
<ulclass="terms">
<li>$25+ // Your name under "supporters" in the acknowledgements section.</li>
<li>$50+ // Your name and link to your profile page under "benefactors"</li>
<li>$100+ // Your name, link, and a dedication of your choice (140 characters max) under "bibliophiles"</li>
<dd>Your pledge will time out according to its original time limit. If the campaign is resolved and reactivated before your pledge has timed out, your pledge will become active again. If the campaign is not reactivated before your pledge's time limit, your pledge will expire and you will not be charged. As always, you will only be charged if a campaign is successful, within its original time limit.</dd>
<dd>If the campaign manager for the work you're supporting is a nonprofit, please contact them directly to inquire. Unglue.it cannot offer tax deductions.</dd>
<dd>Premiums are bonuses people get for supporting a successful Pledge Campaign, to thank them and incentivize them to pledge. If you've ever gotten a tote bag from NPR, you know what we're talking about.</dd>
<dd>An unglued ebook is a book that's added a <ahref="http://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a> license, after payments to the author, publisher, or other rights holder.<br/><br/>
What does this mean for you? If you're a book lover, you can read unglued ebooks for free, on the device of your choice, in the format of your choice, and share them with all your friends. If you're a library, you can lend them to your patrons with no checkout limits or simultaneous user restrictions, and preserve them however you think best. If you're a rights holder, you get a payments in lieu of further royalties, while retaining copyright and all interests in your work.
<dd>Not necessarily. Sometimes the existing editions include content that we can't get the rights to include in the unglued ebook, especially cover art or illustrations. Sometimes the unglued ebook edition will have improvements, like copy-editing fixes or bonus features. These differences, if any, will be specified in the More... tab of the campaign page. In addition, unglued ebooks may include acknowledgements of supporters and information on their Creative Commons license.</dd>
<dd>The author or publisher sets an earnings total for making the book free. Once you and your fellow ungluers raise enough money to meet that price through pledges or spend enough money on paid copies, the unglued ebook becomes available at no charge, for everyone, everywhere!</dd>
<dd>No. Unglued books can be anything in copyright, whether 75 years or 7 days old, whether they sell in paperback or hardcover and or can only be found in used bookstores -- or nowhere. But the copyright owners and any one else with a claim on the book need to agree.</dd>
<dd>No. There are other crowdfunding sites devoted to new creative works, and we encourage you to investigate them. Once your book is ready to sell as an ebook, we'd love to talk to you.</dd>
<dd>All unglued ebooks are released under a Creative Commons license. The rights holder chooses which Creative Commons license to apply. Books that we distribute in a Buy-to-Unglue Campaign also have creative commons licenses, but the effective date of these licenses is set in the future.<br/><br/>
Creative Commons licenses mean that once the license is effective you <b>can</b>: make copies; keep them for as long as you like; shift them to other formats (like .mobi or PDF); share them with friends or on the internet; download them for free.<br/><br/>
Under NC (non-commercial) licenses, you <b>cannot</b>: sell unglued ebooks, or otherwise use them commercially, without permission from the rights holder.<br/><br/>
Under ND (no derivatives) licenses, you <b>cannot</b>: make derivative works, such as translations or movies, without permission from the rights holder; <br/><br/>
Under all CC licenses (except CC0), you <b>cannot</b>: remove the author's name from the book, or otherwise pass it off as someone else's work; or remove or change the CC license.</dd>
<dd>Creative Commons doesn't define "commercial" thoroughly (though it's worth reading what <ahref="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Does_my_use_violate_the_NonCommercial_clause_of_the_licenses.3F">they have to say on the topic</a>). So as part of the Unglue.it process, ungluing rights holders agree that "For purposes of interpreting the CC License, Rights Holder agrees that 'non-commercial' use shall include, without limitation, distribution by a commercial entity without charge for access to the Work."<br/><br/>
Unglue.it can't provide legal advice about how to interpret Creative Commons licenses, and we encourage you to read about the licenses yourself and, if necessary, seek qualified legal advice.</dd>
<dd>Unglued ebooks are distributed with NO RESTRICTIVE DRM, so they'll work on Kindle, iPad, Kobo, Nook, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux... you get the idea. Whether you have an ereader, a tablet, a desktop or laptop computer, or a smartphone, there are reading apps that work for you. Ebook editions issued through Unglue.it will be available in ePub format. If this format doesn't work for you, today or in the future, you are welcome to shift unglued books to one that does, and to copy and distribute it in that format.</dd>
<dd>No. (Though we hope you have a library card anyway!) <br/><br/>If your library has bought an ebook as part of a Buy-to-Unglue Campaign, you may need your library card if you want to borrow them. </dd>
<dd>If you're reading a book purchased from unglue.it by a library, your borrowing license expires after 2 weeks. But otherwise there's no expiration. And you delete the file on the honor system.<br/><br/>
If you're reading a book you've purchased from unglue.it, you may keep it as long as you like. There's no need to return it, and it won't stop working after some deadline. You own it.<br/><br/>
If you're reading a book that's been unglued, you can keep the file forever AND you can make copies for friends.</dd>
<dd>If you've purchased an ebook from unglue.it, you'll by able to download it from the website. All formats are included, and you can download the ebooks for your personal use as many times as you need to.<br/><br/>
Unglue.it also provides links to download previously unglued books, creative commons licensed books, and public domain ebooks. You don't need our permission to host these free ebooks on your own site.</dd>
<dd>Because books out of copyright are already free for you to copy, remix, and share! If a book is in the <ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain">public domain</a>, it doesn't need to be unglued.</dd>
<dd>Unfortunately, it can be complicated -- which is why Unglue.it wants to simplify things, by making unglued ebooks unambiguously legal to use in certain ways. The laws governing copyright and the public domain vary by country, so a book can be copyrighted in one place and not in another. In the United States, the <ahref="http://www.librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/">Library Copyright Slider</a> gives a quick estimate. <br/><br/>
Unglue.it signs agreements assuring the copyright status of every work we unglue, so you can be confident when reading and sharing an unglued ebook.</dd>
<dd>If you are logged in to Unglue.it, the "Rights" page for every work lists the edition we know about. There a link for every edition that you can use to tell us about Creative Commons or public domain downloads. We do require that these books be hosted at certain known, reputable repositories: Internet Archive, Wikisources, Hathi Trust, Project Gutenberg, or Google Books.</dd></dl>
<dd>Contact our Rights Holder Relations team, <ahref="mailto:rights@gluejar.com">rights@gluejar.com</a>, to discuss signing our Platform Services Agreement (PSA), setting a revenue goal, and running a campaign on Unglue.it to release your book under a <ahref="http://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a> license.<br/><br/>
<em>Note: If you have an EPUB file ready to sell, you should use a "Buy to Unglue" campaign. If there is no ebook yet, you'll want to offer a "Pledge" campaign.</em><br/><br/>
If you are the copyright holder, have ebook rights reverted to you or have you requested reversion from the original publisher? <br/>
If you are a publisher, do you have the right to publish using a Creative Common license? Who distributes your ebooks for online sales to individuals and via 3rd party platforms to libraries for lending?<br/>
If there is an ebook how long is has it been for sale? <br/>
Are ebooks available to Libraries for lending?<br/><br/>
<em>About you as an author and marketer:</em><br/>
What social media (blog, Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, etc.) do you currently use?<br/>
How have you worked with libraries to promote your books in the past?<br/>
Where do you think your key supporters will come from? -- a community of fans you're already in touch with, fans who read your genre, readers who have yet to discover your work, scholars or students, readers who support the open access movement or free culture?
<dd>No. You only need to agree to the terms under which you will use Unglue.it to raise money to release an ebook using a <ahref="http://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a> license. You can decide which specific titles you wish to make available for licensing later. However, before you start a campaign, you must claim a specific title (through the More... tab of its book page) and plan how you will attract ungluers to pledge toward your goal.</dd>
<dd>First, you need to be an authorized rights holder with a signed Platform Services Agreement on file. Please contact <ahref="mailto:rights@gluejar.com">rights@gluejar.com</a> to start this process. Once we have your PSA on file, you'll be able to claim your works and you'll have access to tools for launching and monitoring campaigns. We'll be happy to walk you through the process personally.</dd>
<dd>Show the world why we should love your book. What makes it powerful, intriguing, moving, thought-provoking, important? How does it capture readers' imaginations, engage their minds, or connect to their emotions? Remind readers who loved the book why they loved it, and give people who haven't read it reasons they want to.<br/><br/>
We strongly encourage you to include video. You can upload it to YouTube and embed it here. We also strongly encourage links to help readers explore further -- authors' home pages, organizations which endorse the book, positive reviews, et cetera. Think about blurbs and awards which showcase your book. But don't just write a catalog entry or a laundry list: be relatable, and be concise.</dd>
<dd>Anything you think will get ungluers excited about supporting your work. Think about things that uniquely represent yourself or the work, that are appealing, and that you can deliver quickly and within your budget. For example, authors could consider offering Skype sessions as premiums for libraries or schools that might want to plan an event around the unglued book. And, of course, physical or digital editions of your other books are always popular.</dd>
<dd>You can offer anything you are capable of delivering, so long as it is not illegal or otherwise restricted in the United States. For instance, your premiums may not include alcohol, drugs, or firearms. For full details, consult our <ahref="/terms/">Terms of Use</a>.</dd>
<dd>Unglue.it will share supporters' emails and the premiums they are owed with rights holders if, and only if, a campaign succeeds. Campaign managers can also message supporters via the website. If you need additional information to fulfill premiums, you may email ungluers directly. Rights holders are required to comply with the Unglue.it privacy policy.</dd>
<dd>Of course you'll want them to support your campaign financially, and make that pitch. But they also want to feel like they're part of the excitement of the campaign and the love for your book. Invite them to discuss the book in the Comments tab, to share the campaign via email and social media using the Share column links, and to embed the campaign widget in their blogs. And think about other ways you can get supporters involved, too: discussions on social reading sites? A Twitter hashtag? Uploading Flickr photos or YouTube videos of themselves with your book? (Prizes or acknowledgements for the person who photographs your book in the most unusual location?) Think of ways you can invite them to express and share their enthusiasm, and how you can reward them (not just monetarily) for doing so.</dd>
<dt>What is my responsibility for answering questions from supporters and non-supporters?</dt>
<dd>It's up to you. However, our experience watching and running crowdfunding campaigns suggests that you'll do best if you're engaged, prompt, and personable. In fact, don't just think in terms of answering questions (though you should absolutely do that) -- think about cultivating and contributing to the conversation.</dd>
<dd>Yes, when you're logged in as a campaign manager, you can contact supporters directly via the ungluers tab. You can also enter comments which are delivered to every supporter who hasn't opted out of comments.<br/><br/>
We don't get other contact information, except as needed to fulfill premiums after successful campaigns. Supporters may voluntarily disclose certain contact information (such as Twitter handles) on their profile pages. We encourage you to be thoughtful in your use of this information. </dd>
Also, pay attention to places they're talking about your campaign. This might be the Comments tab, a hashtag on Twitter, the comments section of your blog, a forum on your web site, your Facebook page, et cetera. You can use your campaign pitch to point them to these spaces, too. Read them regularly to see what people are saying, and to participate in the conversation.</dd>
<dd>On every campaign page, you can generate an HTML widget that you can embed wherever you like. It will automatically be updated with your campaign's progress. There are also links to share the page via email and social networks. <br/><br/>
Have other ways you want to share? Your own blog, newsletter, or social media presence? Your friends, and their friends? Professional associations? Media contacts? Go for it!<br/><br/>
<dd>We automatically generate those lists from the books with the most (or most recent) wishes, pledges, and comments. The more people you can rally to show their love of your book, the more likely it is to be featured there.</dd>
<dt>How can I get press coverage or social media buzz for my campaign?</dt>
<dd>We're developing a social media toolkit to help you with this; stay tuned. We're also happy to work with you one-on-one. Email <ahref="mailto:support@gluejar.com">support@gluejar.com</a>.
<dd>For a Buy-to-Unglue Campaign, yes, you'll need to upload an epub file for each book. For Pledge Campaigns, no, you may run campaigns for books that exist only in print copies or are out of print. Any print book can be scanned to create a digital file that can then become an ePub-format unglued ebook.</dd>
<dd>For a Pledge Campaign, you'll need to set funding goal and deadline. For a Buy-to-Unglue Campaign, you'll need a revenue goal and an initial effective date for the Creative Commons Licence. You'll also need to set prices for each type of license you plan to offer.</dd>
<dd>Unglue.it contributions are non-refundable. Once a campaign succeeds, supporters' credit cards will be charged the full amount of their pledge. However, they will not be charged until, and unless, the campaign succeeds. Before that time they may modify or cancel their pledges without charge. Buy-to-Unglue license purchases are not returnable or refundable by Unglue.it, but rights holders need to keep customers happy with respect to the products they buy, as customers are free to post comments on the work page.
<dd>Ungluers may contest charges, either with the payment processor or with their credit card issuer. Unglue.it is not liable for this and rights holders are liable for any chargebacks. We encourage rights holders to provide clear, timely communication to their supporters throughout the campaign to ensure they remember what they pledged to and why.</dd>
<dd>Although credit cards are authorized at the time of pledging, a small percentage of cards will get voided between the time of authorization and the time the credit card is actually charged. Rights holders are responsible for any funding shortfall due to voided credit cards.</dd>
<dd>If you are a 501(c)3 or similar, please consult your own attorneys and accountants about the tax deductibility of ungluers' contributions. Unglue.it cannot offer tax deductions or advice.</dd>
<dd>Unglue.it will be in communication with you about when campaigns should go live. On your <ahref="/rightsholders/">rights holder dashboard</a>, you will be able to see all works you have claimed and the status of any associated campaigns.</dd>
<dd><ul><li>For <i>Pledge Campaigns</i>: After we reach the threshold price Unglue.it will issue you a closing memo, which will cover your gross and net proceeds. Unglue.it will hold the proceeds until you deliver an ePub file meeting Unglue.it's quality standards, at which point Unglue.it will send you a check. If Unglue.it does not receive a suitable ePub file within 90 days, we will deduct conversion costs from your funds and release the rest to you.</li>
<li>For <i>Buy-to-Unglue Campaigns</i>: We make payments quarterly to rights holders who have accrued more than $100 in earnings. If we are able to set you up with ACH transfers, we will send payments more frequently. 70% of earnings accrue immediately; the rest accrues after 90 days.</li></ul></dd>
<dd>Campaigns are scheduled to close at midnight Eastern (US) time of the day when they hit their funding threshold. They may continue to accrue pledges/sales up to that time, including funding past their goal.</dd>
<dd>The campaign ends. Supporters' credit cards are not charged, so you are not paid, and not obligated to release an unglued ebook.<br/><br/>
If you're concerned a campaign may not reach its goal you have several options. You can lower the target price to a level more likely to succeed. Or you are welcome to run a second campaign at a later time, perhaps with a different goal, duration, and publicity strategy. We'd be happy to consult with you about this.</dd>
<dd>Every sale moves a books ungluing date towards the present, and the ungluing date achieved survives the termination of your Buy-to-Unglue Campaign.</dd>
<dd>When a campaign succeeds, Unglue.it will deduct a 6% commission (or $60, whichever is greater) on the funds raised. Our payment processor also charges a separate small fee on each transaction, plus (where relevant) currency conversion costs. If you do not have a suitable ePub version of your book available, you will also need to cover ebook conversion costs; please price this into your goal for a campaign. Details are spelled out in the Platform Services Agreement that rights holders must sign before launching an Unglue.it campaign.</dd>
<dd>For Buy-to-Unglue Campaigns, Unglue.it charges (1) a flat 25% of of revenue from ebook licenses it provides through its site or through partner sites and (2) a per-transaction charge of $0.25. These amounts <i>include</i> payment processor fees and any fees due to partner sites.</dd>
<dd>This depends entirely on your original contract with your publisher. You should seek independent advice about your royalty clauses and the "Subsidiary Rights" clauses of your contract. The Authors' Guild provides guidance for its members.</dd>
<dt>If I am an author do I have to talk to my publisher or agent first?</dt>
<dd>It is your responsibility to get advice on the current status of any contracts you may have ever had for the right to publish your work, whether or not a book is in print now. <ahref="http://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a> licenses are media neutral and worldwide (English). You may need waivers from other parties who have exclusive licenses for this book.</dd>
<dt>If I am a publisher, but I do not have an ebook royalty in my contract, can I sign your Platform Services Agreement?</dt>
<dd>We can't interpret your particular contract regarding subsidiary rights and your ability to use a Creative Commons license. Please seek qualified independent advice regarding the terms of your contract. In any event, you will also want the author to cooperate with you on a successful fundraising campaign, and you can work together to meet the warranties of the PSA.</dd>
<dd>Not necessarily. If you are the author and copyright holder but have a contract with a publisher, the publisher may be the authorized Rights Holder with respect to commercial rights, and they may be able to sign a licensing agreement on your behalf. Again, you must get advice about your individual contract, especially subsidiary rights clauses and exclusivity.</dd>
<dd>Yes. If permission to reprint cannot not be obtained for items such as photographs, drawings, color plates, as well as quotations from lyrics and poetry, we can produce an unglued edition which leaves them out. You must indicate the difference between the editions on your Campaign page.</dd>
<dd>The Creative Commons licenses are non-exclusive. They will apply only to the unglued edition, not to the print, audio, or any other editions. They does not affect the rights status of those other editions. If you use the no-derivative, noncommercial license (CC BY-NC-ND), no one else may sell your book or make derivatives unless you give them permission to do so.</dd>
<dd>No. An unglued ebook is released to the world. It uses a <ahref="http://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a> license which is territory-neutral. That is, the unglued ebook can be read by anyone, anywhere in the world, subject always to the limitations of the license.</dd>
