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<dd>Fabulous! Please refer to the FAQ <a href="/faq/rightsholders/">for Rights Holders</a> and then contact us at <a href="mailto:rights@gluejar.com">rights@gluejar.com</a>.</dd>
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<dd>For support requests, <a href="mailto:support@gluejar.com">support@gluejar.com</a>. For general inquiries, use our Ask Questions Frequently account, <a href="mailto:aqf@gluejar.com">. For rights inquiries, <a href="mailto:rights@gluejar.com">rights@gluejar.com</a>.</dd>
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<dd>We are <a href="http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com">Eric Hellman</a>, <a href="http://www.ameckeco.com/">Amanda Mecke</a>, <a href="http://raymondyee.net/">Raymond Yee</a>, and <a href="http://andromedayelton.com">Andromeda Yelton</a>. (TBA: include contractors?) 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 personal home pages (linked above) or <a href="http://gluejar.com/team">the team page</a> of our corporate site.</dd>
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<dt>What are premiums?</dt>
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<dd>Premiums are bonuses people get for supporting a successful 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>
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<dt>Who is responsible for making sure Rights Holders deliver premiums?</dt>
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<dd>The rights holder. (TBA: is this correct? do we need to say more?</dd>
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<dd>Unglue.It determines the required premiums; the rights holder determines any additional premiums for a campaign.</dd>
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<dd>Yes. You choose what books to wishlist and what books to support. Your passion will drive the campaigns. We aim to host campaigns for diverse subjects genres, from romance novels to poetry, from history to medicine, from the lectures of famous scentists to your favorite chapter book when you were 8 years old.</dd>
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<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.</dd>
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<dd>Unless otherwise specified for specific books, unglued ebooks are released under a (TBA:link)Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license (CC BY-NC-ND). (TBA: improve with input from CC site)<br /><br />
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You <b>cannot</b>: sell them, or otherwise use them commercially, without permission from the rights holder; make derivative works, such as translations or movies, without permission from the rights holder; 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>
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<dd>Unglued ebooks are distributed with NO 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. And if the ePub format isn't best for your device, you're free to shift unglued books to a format that works better for you. (TBA: I think ePub does NOT work on Kindle so we need to address that, & how people can deal)</dd>
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<dt>Do I need to have a library card to read an unglued ebook?</dt>
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<dd>No. (Though we hope you have a library card anyway!) While your library may make unglued ebooks available, they will be available from other sources as well.</dd>
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<dt>How long do I have to read my unglued book? When does it expire?</dt>
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<dd>It doesn't! 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.</dd>
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<dt>I love my unglued ebook and I want to loan it to my friends. Can I?</dt>
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<dd>Yes! Because everything with a <a href="http://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a> license is free to copy and share, you can copy your file and give it to anyone (and everyone) you want. Just don't sell it -- unglued ebooks are only licensed for noncommercial use.</dd>
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<dt>Will I be able to dowload an unglued ebook directly from Unglue.It?</dt>
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<dd>Unglue.It will provide links to places where you can find unglued and public domain ebooks. We will not host them ourselves. We encourage you to look for them at bookstores, libraries, literary blogs, social reading sites, and all kinds of places people go to read and talk about books.</dd>
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<dt>Why does an unglued book have to be in copyright?</dt>
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<dd>Because books out of copyright are already free for you to copy, remix, and share! If a book is in the (TBA: link) public domain, it's already unglued.</dd>
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<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. (TBA: link, library copyright slider; other?) In the United States, the Library Copyright Slider gives a quick estimate. (TBA: more links for people who want to learn more?)<br /><br />
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Unglue.It signs agreements concerning the copyright status of every work we unglue, so you can be confident when reading and sharing an unglued ebook.</dd>
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<dd>Contact Amanda Mecke, <a href="mailto:amecke@gluejar.com">amecke@gluejar.com</a>, to discuss signing our Platform Services Agreement. This is the first step in being able to make an offer to license, set a monetary goal, and run a campaign on Unglue.it.</dd>
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<dt>Do I need to know the exact titles I might want to unglue before I sign the Platform Services Agreement?</dt>
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<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 the <a href="http://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a> license. You can decide which specific titles you wish to make available for licensing later. You can run campaigns for as many, or as few, titles at a time as you like.</dt>
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<dt>How do I launch my first campaign?</dt>
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<dt>Can I Unglue only one of my books? Can I unglue all of them?</dt>
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<dd>Yes! It's entirely up to you. Each Campaign is for a individual title and a separate fundraising goal.</dd>
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<dd>You can set any goal that you want in a Campaign. Unglue.It cannot guarantee that a goal will be reached.</dd>
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<dd>Show us 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 />
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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>
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<dd>We're developing a social media toolkit for rights holders. Please tell us what you think should be in it so we can serve you better: <a href="mailto:andromeda@gluejar.com">andromeda@gluejar.com</a>. In the meantime we're happy to help you one-on-one, at the same address.</dd>
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<dd>(TBA: use widget, share functions on page, own social media networks, friends, their friends...)</dd>
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<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 <a href="mailto:support@gluejar.com">support@gluejar.com</a>.
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<dd>No. You may run campaigns for any of your books, even those 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 unglued ebook.</dd>
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<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>
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What does it mean when I wish for a book to be Unglued?
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No. An Unglued Ebook is pre-paid. A CC BY NC ND license means no one else can sell or adapt the ebook for profit. The Rights Holder can set as high a fee as wanted as a fundraising goal, instead of waiting decades for royalties.
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<dt>How do I keep track of my contributors and the fulfillment of premiums?</dt>
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<dd>TBA</dd>
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Andromeda Yelton