Seller Terms

Who these terms are between

These Seller Terms are an agreement between you, the author, and Bace Agency LLC, 115 Windwood Ct, Buffalo Grove, Illinois 60089, USA, which operates Built&Written ("we", "us"). You accept the version shown at the top of this page when you create your author profile, and again whenever we ask you to accept a new version.

The licence you give us

You keep the copyright in your book. When a listing is approved you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide licence to display your book page, its cover, description and sample, and to sell and deliver digital copies of the approved version of your book to readers. We sell those copies in our own name, as the seller, and pay you a royalty on each sale.

The licence covers each approved version for as long as the listing is live, and continues for readers who already bought a copy so they can keep downloading it.

What you promise

• You own or have licensed all rights in the text, cover and other material of the book, and selling it here infringes nobody's rights.
• If you list a book here, for sale or as a showcase, its e-book is not enrolled in KDP Select (Kindle Unlimited) or any other programme that requires exclusivity: every book page carries a free sample of up to 20% of the book.
• You disclose honestly how AI was used to write the book, choosing one of: written by the author; written with AI assistance; generated with AI and edited by the author.
• The book complies with our Content Policy and with the law in the countries where it is sold.

Responsibility for your book

You are responsible for the content of your book. If someone makes a claim against us because your book infringes their rights or breaks the law, or because you broke these terms, you will cover our reasonable losses and costs from that claim, including reasonable legal fees. This covers only claims about your own books and your own conduct. We will tell you about such a claim promptly.

Listings and moderation

Every listing and every new version is reviewed before it goes live. We may decline a listing, ask you to change it, or pause, suspend or remove it at any time, for example after a complaint, a copyright notice or a breach of these terms. We will tell you why.

On the free plan you may publish up to two showcase pages, which show your book and links to other stores but sell nothing through us. Selling here requires a plan that includes book downloads, or the one-time purchase for that book.

Prices, royalties and payouts

• You set the price, from $2.99 to $49.99, or $0 for a free book where your plan allows it.
• Your royalty is 80% of the net amount of each sale: the price paid, less sales tax or VAT, less the payment processor's fee.
• Royalties are held for 30 days after each sale to cover refunds and chargebacks, then become available.
• We pay available balances of $25 or more once a month by PayPal. Smaller balances carry over.
• A refund or chargeback after a payout is deducted from your next payouts.
• If refunds exceed 10% of a book's sales, we review the book and may pause its listing while we do.
• If you give us a W-8 form, your royalties accrue as usual, and payouts to you start once we have set up tax withholding for authors outside the United States.

Author referrals

• Your author page and book pages carry your referral link. When someone signs up through it and pays for a Built&Written subscription, you earn 20% of each subscription payment they make in their first 12 months.
• Each commission is held for 30 days after the payment, then becomes available and is paid with your royalties under the payout rules above.
• A commission is cancelled if the payment is refunded or disputed, and no commission is paid when you refer yourself or an account you control.

Tax information

Before your first payout you must give us a valid tax form (W-9 for US persons, W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E otherwise). We withhold tax where US law requires it and report payments to the tax authorities on Form 1099 or Form 1042-S, as the law requires. You are responsible for your own taxes on your royalties.

Your readers' data

Readers buy your book from us: we are the seller, and we take payment, deliver the book and handle refunds. We share a buyer's email address with you only if the buyer chooses to at checkout. You may write to your followers through our tools; we do not hand over their addresses.

Term, ending and changes

These terms apply from when you create your author profile until you or we close it.

You may pause or remove a listing, or close your author profile, at any time. We may suspend or close your author profile for a serious or repeated breach of these terms or the Content Policy, or where the law requires it. Royalties you already earned are paid out as usual, less refunds and chargebacks, unless the law prevents it.

Readers who bought a book keep access to what they bought, unless we remove it for a legal reason, such as a valid copyright notice, unlawful content or a court order.

If you cancel your plan, listings published while you were entitled to sell stay live; publishing a new version needs that entitlement again.

We may change these terms. If a change is material, we will ask you to accept the new version before you can publish a listing or a new version. Royalties you already earned are paid out as usual while you decide.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Disputes arising from these terms are heard by the state and federal courts located in Lake County or Cook County, Illinois.