Plain words about the bookmatic service, what you buy, who your payment contract is with, and the rules we both agree to.
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bookmatic is a software service operated and provided by Konsensus LLC (“Konsensus”, “we”, “us”). These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of it. Everything on bookmatic is sold to you by Konsensus LLC. Card payments are taken by a payment provider we appoint, which is named on the checkout page before you pay; where that provider acts as our reseller and Merchant of Record it takes the payment and carries the tax on it. Section 9 has the detail.
Konsensus LLC is a limited liability company organized under the Roatán Common Law Code (§ 3707) in the Próspera ZEDE, Honduras, registry number 86585140624059, registered office c/o Próspera Employment Solutions LLC, Beta Building, Oficina 6, Próspera ZEDE, St. John’s Bay, Islas de la Bahía 34101, Honduras.
Three other pages form part of these Terms: our privacy notice, our refund policy, and our content & takedown policy.
Accepting these Terms. By creating an account, buying anything, or carrying on using bookmatic, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree to them, do not use the Service. If you are accepting on behalf of a company, you confirm you are allowed to bind it.
bookmatic takes a manuscript and turns it into a finished book, inside one application. Depending on what you hold, you get:
What we tell you about the Service before you buy — on the website, in the app, and in the guide — is part of your contract with us, and we will not change it to your disadvantage without your agreement. Anything the app marks as beta or planned is not part of what you bought until it is released. We may add, change or retire features; if a change takes away something a purchase of yours delivered, section 18 gives you a way out.
You need an account. Keep your details accurate and your password to yourself, and you are responsible for what happens under your account, including what the people you invite do. We store your password only as a hash — we never hold the password itself — plus, if you switch it on, your two-factor secret. Tell us promptly if someone else gets in.
You must be at least 16 to hold an account. Under 18, a parent or guardian has to accept these Terms for you and make any purchase. These Terms cover both consumer and business accounts; where something applies only to consumers, it says so.
You agree not to use bookmatic to:
Because parts of bookmatic generate text, pictures and speech with AI, some limits are worth spelling out. You agree not to use any AI feature to:
AI output can be wrong. A translation, a set of editor notes or a cover is generated by a machine and may be inaccurate, incomplete or misleading. It is your work and your name on it: read it before you publish it. Do not rely on anything bookmatic generates as legal, financial, medical, tax or other regulated professional advice — we do not give any, and nothing the Service produces is a substitute for a qualified professional.
We may suspend or remove content, or suspend or close an account, that we reasonably believe breaks this section, and we run automatic safeguards that slow down or pause activity that looks abusive or broken.
How we moderate published pages, and how anyone reports a page or files a copyright notice, is in our content & takedown policy. An author’s first public page is read by a person before it opens. A page that breaks the policy can be unlisted or removed.
We do not run the payment rails or the AI models ourselves. The companies that do have their own rules about what may be sold and what may be sent to them, and those companies are the reason bookmatic can offer you what it offers. So their rules reach you through us: you agree not to use bookmatic to do anything our payment providers or our AI providers forbid.
The ones that matter in practice:
If one of them tells us that a book or an account breaks their rules, we have to act: we may switch off the feature, unlist the page, or close the account. We will tell you which rule and which company, and section 16 still gives you notice and a chance to fix it where it can be fixed. This works both ways — we will not ask you to break their rules either.
Every AI feature runs only when you press its button. This is the whole list of what goes out when you do, and who receives it.
| Feature | What leaves us | Who receives it |
|---|---|---|
| Writing, editing, reading, comments, chat, quote cards, your author profile | Nothing. Your text sits in our database. | Cloudflare, who host bookmatic and its database. |
| Page layout and the print-ready PDF | Your text and pictures go to our own typesetting service. | Nobody outside. That service is ours, running on Cloudflare. |
| AI translation | The chapters being translated, plus a short note on your book’s style. Embedded blocks and figures are held back and never sent. | Anthropic (Claude) directs every translation, and translates some languages in full. Google (Gemini) translates the others. Cloudflare’s own AI stands in if one of them is unavailable. |
| AI editor notes | Your chapter titles and the notes your readers left. | Anthropic, with Cloudflare’s own AI as the stand-in. |
| Marketing text — back-cover copy, posts, quotable lines | Your title, your name, and passages from your manuscript. | Anthropic. |
| AI cover art | Two steps. First a short description of the book — title, chapter names, opening lines — to work out what the cover should show. Then a picture brief, which is text, to draw it. Your manuscript is not sent to the drawing step. | Anthropic for the first step. sats4ai for the drawing; OpenAI instead where that route is switched on. |
| AI narration (audiobook) | Your whole book, as the ebook file we build from it. That is what gets read aloud, so that is what has to be sent. The voices are a fixed menu of licensed synthetic voices — you cannot submit a recording, and no real person’s voice is imitated. | sats4ai. |
| Publishing your book page | The part of your book you chose to publish becomes public. | Anyone you give the link to. Book pages are kept out of search engines. |
| Email from bookmatic | Your email address and the message. | Resend, who send our email. |
| Paying by card | Your name, email and card details go straight to the payment provider. They never touch our servers. | The payment provider named at checkout. |
| Delivering a book to a reader who bought it | The buyer’s email address, and the book file we send them. | Resend for the email, Cloudflare for the file. |
If you never start an AI feature, your manuscript never leaves our servers. We do not sell your work, we do not give it to advertisers, and we do not use it to train anything. Under their API terms, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI process what we send only to give the result back, and do not use it to train their models. sats4ai is sent one job at a time: it gets the file or the brief for that job and nothing else — no account of yours, no email address, no payment details. The full list of companies that handle your data is in our privacy notice.
You own your book. You keep every right in it. Nothing here moves ownership of your manuscript, your cover or your book to us.
To run the features you press, you give us permission to host, store, copy, process, format, lay out, translate, send and display your work — for the purpose of providing the Service to you and the people you invite, and, for anything you choose to publish, to show your published page to the readers you point at it. That permission exists to run the product and nothing else. It ends when you delete the content or close your account, apart from routine backups and anything the law makes us keep (section 16).
What you promise us. That you own or have permission for everything you upload and publish, and that it breaks no law and no one else’s rights.
If someone sues over your book. If you use bookmatic for your trade, business or profession, you will defend us and our payment providers against third-party claims arising from your book or from your breach of these Terms, and cover the reasonable legal costs. If you are a consumer, none of that applies to you: you owe us only for loss we actually suffer and you actually caused. Neither version applies to anything caused by our own breach.
AI output. Where a feature uses an AI model under your direction, what comes back becomes part of your book only when you accept it. You stay the author of what you accept, and you are responsible for checking it. AI narration is disclosed to listeners as digital narration.
bookmatic itself stays ours. Your book is yours; the software that makes it is not. Konsensus LLC owns the Service and everything in it — the application, its source code, the typesetting engine and templates, the designs, the documentation, the bookmatic name and logo — and nothing here transfers any of that to you. You get a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service for as long as your access lasts and for what it is meant for. You may not copy, resell or redistribute the Service, reverse-engineer it, or work around its technical limits.
A tier is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. There is nothing to cancel and nothing renews. It sits on your account and takes one book through the Service; write to us if you want to publish a second one. Credits are bought in packs. Our current list prices are Digital $199 and Press $399, one payment per book; and credit packs at $9 (100 credits), $40 (500), $75 (1,000) and $199 (2,500). An ISBN from our block is bought with credits, at the credit price shown in the app. Prices shown at checkout are the ones that apply. Translation is a flat 1,000 credits per target language, whatever the length of the book, shown to you before it runs. Every price is shown in the app and again at checkout, in the currency you will be charged, before you pay anything.
Card is the only way to pay on bookmatic. There is no other payment method offered on this site.
Where our order process is conducted by an online reseller acting as Merchant of Record, that reseller is named on the checkout page and on your receipt, and it handles the payment, the tax and the returns for that order. We answer everything about the Service itself.
Purchased features open once payment is confirmed.
Some features cost us money every time they run — a translation, a cover picture, a set of editor notes. Those run on credits, which you buy in advance and spend as you use them. New accounts start with some for free.
Credits work on bookmatic and nowhere else. They buy anything the platform sells as an extra. They are not money: no cash value, not redeemable for cash, no interest, not transferable to another person or another service, and not a deposit, a gift card or electronic money. Unused credits do not expire while your account is open.
Credits are non-refundable once spent. That is our policy and it is deliberate: a credit exists so the work happens the second you ask for it, and the moment you spend one we owe an outside service real money for it. When you buy credits you are asking us to make them available immediately, and you agree that a credit you have spent is not refundable. Credits you have not spent are refundable for 14 days — see section 11.
Two things limit that:
Credits are spendable as soon as you buy them.
If a payment is reversed — while it is being looked at. If a payment for credits is reversed or disputed, Konsensus LLC puts the account on hold: no credits can be spent and no new work starts. Credits from that payment that you have not spent go back to us. You can still log in, read, download and export everything.
If the reversal stands and some credits were already used. Spending a credit spends real money: within seconds we pay an outside AI provider for that job, and that cannot be undone. If the reversal stands and some of those credits were already used, the account is in arrears by exactly that number of credits, valued at exactly what you paid for them. We add nothing — no fee, no interest, and we never pass on what the reversal cost us.
How to clear it. Buy credits as normal and your purchase covers the arrears first, with the rest landing as credits. If you would rather settle the exact amount instead, write to hello@konsensus.net and we will send bitcoin or bank details. There is no deadline on buying: that door stays open for good.
What is always yours. Whatever happens with a payment, your manuscript, your uploads and every file we have made for you stay available to read, download and export, free, at any time — one click, in your account. Your data-protection rights (a copy of your data, correction, deletion, portability) are always free and are never affected by anything you owe. We never close your account or delete your book over money.
If nothing is cleared. Fourteen days after we email you about arrears, the account stops running new paid work until the arrears are cleared. Reading, downloading, exporting and buying all still work, and they always will.
When you owe nothing. You are not in arrears if the payment was not authorised by you, if your bank finds in your favour, or if we failed to deliver the work. The hold comes off and nothing is owed. Nothing here asks you to give up your right to dispute a payment with your bank — you always have it.
If a feature fails after we charged you for it, we put the credits back. For the features we meter, if the work turns out to have cost less than we quoted we put the difference back, and we never charge more than the estimate you agreed to.
Translation is a fixed price, not a metered one: 1,000 credits per target language, whatever the length of the book. You are told that number before it runs, it does not change with the size of your manuscript, and because it is a price rather than an estimate there is no difference to put back afterwards.
If you are a consumer in the EU or EEA, you normally have 14 days to withdraw from a distance contract for a digital service, without giving a reason.
bookmatic starts performing immediately — that is the point of it. By buying and starting to use it (importing a manuscript, running a translation, laying out a PDF, spending a credit) you expressly ask us to begin during the withdrawal period, and each credit-priced job is a separate job that is fully performed the moment it finishes running — so the right of withdrawal ends for each job as it completes, so far as the EU Consumer Rights Directive (2011/83/EU, art. 16(a)) and its national versions allow. Jobs that have not run, and credits you have not spent, stay refundable for 14 days. If we have not begun, the 14 days are still yours. Rights that your national law does not let you waive are unaffected.
Spent credits are non-refundable (section 10), subject to the two limits set out there. Unspent credits: within 14 days of buying them, if you have not spent any credit from that purchase, write to us and we will reverse it in full. This is our own policy, on top of the statutory right above.
Our own policy, on top of the statutory right: if you bought a tier and have not yet used a paid feature of it — no translation run, no laid-out PDF, no export, no published page — we refund it in full within 14 days of purchase, no reason needed. Just ask at hello@konsensus.net.
How to ask. Email hello@konsensus.net with your order number or the address you paid with, before the 14 days are up. Any clear statement works; there is a model withdrawal form in our refund policy if you prefer one, but it is optional. The 14 days run from the day the contract was made. We refund within 14 days of hearing from you, to the card you paid with, at no charge to you. Card refunds are issued through the payment provider that took it. The mechanics — who replies and how fast — are in the refund policy.
When you publish, we host your book’s page for you and keep hosting it. Two honest conditions on that, because “hosted forever” is a promise nobody can keep:
If we ever have to stop running bookmatic, we will tell you by email at least 30 days before it happens, and your files stay downloadable for that whole period. Your book is yours: the ebook file and the print files are exports you can take anywhere, at any time, and publishing here has never stopped you selling the same book elsewhere.
An ISBN is the number that identifies a book in shops and libraries. Here is exactly where you stand with one:
You can also get an ISBN yourself from the agency for your country, free or paid depending on where you live, and give us the number. Either way the barcode is the same.
Not switched on. Reader-facing book sales are not live on bookmatic today: no book page can take a payment, and nothing in this section is in force yet. It is written down now so the terms are settled before the feature opens, and we will say so in the app on the day it does.
bookmatic sells software to authors. It is not a shop, a marketplace or a reseller of anyone else’s goods, and no third party sells anything through it.
If you switch on reader sales for a book you published here, Konsensus publishes that edition and sells it as its own. The reader pays Konsensus, and Konsensus carries what comes with that — payment processing, sales tax, refunds, chargebacks and the reader’s consumer rights. You do not need a payment account, and you do not register for tax in a reader’s country.
Your royalty. For each settled sale we owe you a royalty, calculated as a percentage of Net Receipts (section 2). The current rate is shown on the Sell tab in the app and on your royalty ledger, and it is the rate that applies to every sale settled while it is in force; the remainder is what Konsensus keeps for selling, taxing, delivering and supporting the book. If we change the rate we will say so in the app before it applies, and sales already settled keep the rate they settled at. Your royalty is credited to your ledger in the app the moment the sale settles, and the ledger shows every entry. It is a debt we owe you, not money held on trust, and it earns no interest. You may ask to be paid your balance at any time and we pay it within 30 days of the request, by a method we agree with you. If a sale is refunded or charged back, the royalty on it is reversed and you can see the reversal. Tax on what you earn is yours to handle.
None of this moves the rights in your book. You may sell the same book anywhere else at the same time, and you may unpublish your page whenever you like — readers who already bought it keep their access.
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. As far as the law allows, we disclaim warranties we have not written down here, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free. In plain words: we do not promise it will never go down and never have a bug.
bookmatic is a tool and a host. It is not your editor, your translator or your lawyer, and it is never the author of your book. The editorial decisions stay yours. AI output can be wrong; checking it before you accept it is your job, as is clearing the rights to everything you publish.
As far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill. Our total liability for anything to do with the Service is limited to what you paid us — or paid our payment provider — in the twelve months before whatever went wrong.
Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law: death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or a consumer’s mandatory rights. If you are a consumer, those rights sit on top of these Terms and are untouched by them.
You can stop using bookmatic whenever you like and delete your content. To close the account, email hello@konsensus.net from the address it is registered to.
We may suspend or close your access if you seriously break these Terms, use the Service unlawfully, fail to pay, or trip our abuse safeguards. Before we close a paid account for anything other than unlawful use or serious abuse, we give you notice, a fair chance to put it right, and time to export your files. When access ends, published pages you created may come down.
Your data. When you close your account we delete your books, your profile and your collaboration data within 30 days, backups included. Records we have to keep for accounting, tax or abuse handling are kept as long as the law requires.
These Terms, and any dispute about them or about the Service, are governed by the law of the Próspera ZEDE, Honduras — where Konsensus LLC is organized — without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, and the parties submit to the courts there.
If you are a consumer, that choice does not take away the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in, and those protections apply to you in full. You may bring a case against us either in the Próspera ZEDE or in your own country; we may bring one against you only where you live. For a card purchase sold by a Merchant of Record, that provider is the party you paid and its own buyer terms govern that payment.
We change these Terms only for a real reason: the law changed, a payment provider or another supplier changed, security or fraud prevention requires it, or the Service itself changed. You get at least 30 days’ notice by email before a material change takes effect.
The revision line at the foot of this document records when these Terms last changed.
If a change is bad for you — to these Terms, or to something you already paid for — tell us within those 30 days and we will refund the unused part of your purchase, or keep you on the old terms for what you already bought, whichever you prefer. Carrying on using the Service after the notice period is how you accept a change, and it never removes that choice. The revision line at the foot of this page records when these Terms last changed.
Konsensus LLC — hello@konsensus.net. About a card payment specifically — a receipt, a billing question, a card refund — you can also go straight to the payment provider named on your receipt. How we handle personal data is in our privacy notice; what may be published and how to report it is in our content & takedown policy.
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