Goodkindles is a book promotion service that allows users to lease an advertising space and use it to promote their books. By accessing or using our book promotion site, however accessed, you agree to be
bound by these terms of use ("Terms of Use"). These Terms of Use
affect your legal rights and obligations. If you do not agree to be
bound by all of these Terms of Use, do not access or use our service.
1. Goodkindles is a book promotion service for authors, where authors and writers can lease an advertising space to promote their books.
2. Goodkindles has the right to refuse to lease an advertising space if:
- book description contains very explicit sexual vocabulary
- book cover contains explicit sexual images
- book contains very violent, nude, discriminatory, unlawful, infringing, hateful, pornographic or sexually abusive elements
- book listing is incomplete and a person leasing an advertising space does not respond to our staff emails, or responds in a way that does not comply with universal civility standards
- book listing contains spam (stuffed keywords, irrelevant links and so on)
- book is not available for purchase on an acknowledged, widely trusted online ebook bookstore
3. By using Goodkindles, you acknowledge that leasing a promotional space and advertising your book on it may cause but does not guarantee growth of sales or popularity of promoted book. You acknowledge that book popularity and sales depend on many factors independent from book promotion sites such as: appeal of the cover, attractiveness of descriptions, reviews of users, and, most importantly, quality of the book. You acknowledge that you are responsible for informing Goodkindles about any desired changes to the promotional book listing, in particular changes to the book cover, promotional description of the book and link where it is possible to purchase the book. If the link to the website where it is possible to buy the book changes or becomes outdated, you acknowledge that it is your responsibility to notify Goodkindles and send the new, working link to be added to the listing.
4. Email used in our online form will be used only to contact you about your listing, and, no more than once a month, for news from the site, which you can always unsubscribe from.
5. To guarantee the date of your choice will be available we require submitting the books with at least one day in advance.
6. Goodkindles lists the books in the morning, between 9.00 - 11.00 Central US Time, except erotica books that are listed in the late afternoons or evenings.
7. The main banners are shown in rotation with other main banners booked for the same month. Goodkindles does not allow using link shorteners, tags, scripts and link additions in both book promotion listings and with book advertisements, and does not allow inserting any links to external websites except Amazon or other bookstores where the book is available for purchase. Goodkindles reserves the right to insert one additional link, marked with rel=”sponsored” attribute, not earlier than 120 days after the first placement of the book promotion listing on the Goodkindles homepage. The second promotion available in Standard Plus book promotion option and in Professional book promotion option can be used to promote only the same title that has been submitted originally.
8. Sending the same book in the newsletter and to social sites within a time shorter than 30 days is not allowed. The second promotion included in the Standard Plus and Professional book promotion options must be scheduled no earlier than 30 days after the first promotion.
9. Goodkindles uses cookies for traffic measure purposes. The copyright of titles, descriptions and the covers of books promoted with our book marketing services belongs to the authors, and their copying and re-uploading on websites other than Goodkindles is not allowed. If the link to the book page on Amazon changes, you acknowledge that it is your responsibility to notify Goodkindles and provide the new link. Goodkindles has the right to delete the link to the book page on Amazon if it is inactive or does not work.
10. Professional option allows users to add a link to their author website to the author website list. Goodkindles has the right to delete the link from the list if the website is inactive, matches any of conditions in the paragraph 2 of terms of use, the response while opening the site is too long, if the website has been penalized in any way, if the owner has removed a required reciprocal link to Goodkindles or if the website is causing a negative seo effect on Goodkindles.