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Manuscript ownership

You keep all copyright and ownership rights in the manuscripts, images, poems, samples, metadata, and other material you upload. BookSetter does not buy, claim, co-own, publish, sell, train on, or redistribute your manuscript content.

You grant BookSetter a limited license to store, process, render, validate, preview, and export your uploaded material solely to provide the service, troubleshoot jobs, prevent abuse, and maintain your account history.

Your publishing rights

After you receive an eligible paid or Free First Edition Beta export, you may use the generated EPUB, print PDF, and related output files for commercial or non-commercial publication of that book, including upload to retailers, printers, distributors, author websites, newsletters, and direct sales channels.

BookSetter retains ownership of its software, layout engine, style system, diagnostics, templates, sample designs, and service branding. An export gives you rights to use the finished book files, not ownership of the BookSetter platform or reusable design system.

Free First Edition Beta

The beta is a limited promotional cohort, not a permanent free-product promise. Eligible verified creators may receive one account-bound promotional book credit without a card. The initial claim is bound to one project and manuscript snapshot, includes two corrective exports for that same project during a 14-day window, and cannot be transferred to another account or manuscript.

Fair-use limits include manuscript size, daily attempts, one concurrent export, lower queue priority, a daily service capacity, and a hard external-AI ceiling. AI image generation and the future Premium Proofed Edition are excluded. New grants may close at any time, but an existing valid grant will not be charged retroactively.

Book-credit rights

Book credits are a prepaid right to generate final exports for eligible books under the package limits shown on the pricing page. BookSetter does not currently sell recurring subscriptions.

Credits are account-bound unless a publisher agreement explicitly says otherwise. Credits are not cash, stored value, securities, or gift cards. Unused credits are not redeemable for cash or transferable between unrelated accounts.

Refunds and re-exports

There are no refunds for unused book credits, abandoned projects, or books the customer chooses not to publish, except where required by law. A standard paid book includes a 60-day free re-export window for the same manuscript and title. After that window, targeted update exports for typo fixes, small section changes, or added backmatter are $9 for the same manuscript and title.

The BookSetter Quality Guarantee is limited to technical formatting failures caused by BookSetter: if a standard manuscript fails EPUB validation or KDP paperback preflight because of our formatting, BookSetter will fix it or refund the formatting charge for that book.

Customer responsibilities

You must have the rights needed to upload and format every manuscript, image, font, excerpt, poem, table, and other asset in your project. You are responsible for editorial content, copyright clearance, permissions, libel/privacy review, ISBN metadata, retailer category choices, and publication decisions.

BookSetter may reject, suspend, remove, or require review for projects that appear unlawful, infringing, malicious, abusive, threatening, deceptive, retailer-prohibited, or technically unsafe for the service.

Samples and previews

Free previews, free poems, one-page samples, and watermarked sample outputs are for evaluation and proofing. Final commercial export requires a paid book credit, an eligible Free First Edition Beta credit, or another authorized entitlement. Paid and promotional beta files are unbranded by default; authors may explicitly opt into a Formatted by BookSetter™ production credit where offered.

Sample style cards on this site show BookSetter edition directions. They are not copies of competitor templates and do not grant rights to competitor assets, logos, trade dress, proprietary templates, or marketing language.

Privacy and storage

BookSetter collects only the account, billing, manuscript, rendering, diagnostic, and support data needed to operate the service. Payment details are handled by Stripe; BookSetter does not store raw card numbers.

Content-free first-party funnel records contain only an allowlisted event name, the public page path, a timestamp, and account or project IDs when already signed in. They never contain manuscript text, uploaded filenames, query strings, campaign parameters, IP addresses, user agents, or third-party advertising identifiers; they expire after 90 days and are disabled when the browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control.

Beta abuse controls use a signed browser token and short-lived HMAC-derived device, network-prefix, manuscript-hash, and email-domain signals. BookSetter does not store raw IP addresses for this program and does not use invasive browser fingerprinting. Combined risk signals may trigger a Cloudflare Turnstile challenge or manual review rather than automatic rejection.

Generated Free First Edition Beta packages for the bound project are retained until 30 days after its most recent successful promotional export, then deleted after an advance warning. The related project, ledger, security, survey, and aggregate program records follow their separate operational, fraud-prevention, and legal retention needs.

Users should be able to delete projects and request account deletion, subject to fraud prevention, tax, security, backup, dispute, and legal retention needs.

No legal or publishing advice

BookSetter provides formatting, validation, and production tools. It does not provide legal, tax, copyright, ISBN, retailer compliance, editorial, or publishing-business advice. Retailer and printer rules can change, and users remain responsible for final publication review.