eBook Publishing at Kalamse.in

Kalamse.in enables authors and publishers to publish and sell eBooks through its platform. Authors and publishers can upload their eBook, set their price, and sell it through Kalamse.in eBook store. The details are available in the following sections.

File Specifications :

  • Files are sold as PDF and optionally as EPUB. The file to be sold as PDF is mandatory to submit.
  • For a file to be sold as a PDF. Accepted formats: .doc, Docx, .sxw, .odt, .rtf, and .pdf. Non-PDF files are converted to PDF files by Kalamse.in
  • Front Cover: The first page of the File should be its Front Cover. It will be displayed on the store as the cover image. No separate covers will be accepted.
  • Margins: Leave at least 0.5″ margin at the bottom. It will be used to watermark the buyer’s e-mail id on the file. Other margins are at your discretion.

File to be sold as EPUB:

  • Needs to be submitted in EPUB format only. Submission in this format is optional. If you do not have an EPUB file, you can ignore this field in the submission form. The cover image should be included in the EPUB file.
Price and Author Margin/Royalty:
  • MRP of the eBook is set by you. It can be zero or a minimum of Rs. 50.
  • The author’s Margin/Royalty is 75% of the MRP when sold through Kalamse.in store and 25% of the MRP when sold through other channels.

Terms for eBook publishing:

  • By submitting your eBook files on Kalamse.in, you grant and assign us a non-exclusive right to digitally publish, distribute, market, and sell them, and to license others to do so. The copyright remains with you.
  • We have the right to sell eBooks worldwide through our site or through other channels.
  • License is non-exclusive, so you retain the rights to publish, sell, distribute for free or do anything else with the content. Of course, if you are using other platforms you should make sure that your use of Kalamse.in does not violate their terms of services. You continue to remain the copyright owner of the eBook.
  • MRP of the eBook is set by you. It can be zero or a minimum of Rs. 50. Author Margin/Royalty is 75% of MRP when sold through Kalamse.in and 25% of MRP when sold through other channels.
  • The responsibility of the content lies with the user submitting the content in accordance with our terms and conditions. Kalamse.in does not check or endorse the books published through the platform. User has to ensure that the content submitted by him/her does not violate our Terms & Condition or the law of the land or anybody’s copyrights, rights to privacy etc. The content has to comply with all the existing terms on our website.
  • Kalamse.in is not liable for any misuse or piracy by the buyers.
  • We reserve the right but are not obliged, to continue to keep a copy of the files and serve it to existing buyers, even after the book has been unpublished from the site. If the book has gone into distribution through other channels and you want to remove it, we need to be intimated by e-mail for the same. Unpublishing the book on Kalamse.in does not remove it from other channels automatically. The removal will happen in accordance with the terms and time frames of individuals partners.

Digital Rights Management (DRM):

  • DRM, described simply, restricts the number and type of devices an eBook can be read on. This is intended to prevent unauthorized copying/piracy of eBooks. But existing DRM solutions from various providers are not compatible and DRMed books can get very messy for even genuine buyers to read. At Kalamse.in, eBooks are not DRM Protected. Instead, we are experimenting with the concept of Social DRM.
Social DRM:
  • Involves stamping some personal information of the buyer on the electronic files Presence of personal information is expected to reduce the tendency to pirate the files In extreme cases, something sensitive like Credit Card Information can be stamped In Kalamse.in social DRM system, we stamp e-mail id of the buyer on the PDF file Currently an experimental feature EPUB files do not have any stamping.
  • “Buyers” who pay the price set by the author/publisher to purchase an e-book are allowed to use each copy of the e-book in any reasonable non-commercial manner in compliance with copyright law and our terms and conditions. “Buyers” acknowledge that the e-books purchased through the website are for their personal use and can not be sub-licensed or resold. On purchasing the e-book, they get a non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-distributable right of use. In other words, you are free to use it personally but are not authorized to share, sell, or distribute the work to others.
  • Once your purchase the e-book, Kalamse.in has the obligation to allow you one download of the associated files. Typically we will provide multiple downloads facility, but we are not obligated to do so. The downloadable books will have the buyer’s e-mail id stamped on them. Buyers are not allowed to tamper with this stamping.
  • Products ordered through the website for delivery within India are shipped through our courier partner if the delivery service to the destination is available. In absence of a courier service to the desired location, the products are shipped through the Indian Postal Service.
Shipping to locations outside India is done through Indian Postal Service:
  • International Book Post shipping requires us to ship books in open envelop and is not registered. Therefore, we will not be in a position to provide a tracking number.
  • The shipping time mentioned anywhere on the website are approximate and we can not guarantee them. Customers are recommended to place an order early on if they have a deadline to meet.
  • Apart from the shipping time, print-on-demand books also need time for production, which varies from 3 days to 2 weeks depending on the production requirement and quantity ordered.