Eligibility

To hold a vendor account you must be at least 18, have the legal capacity to contract, own or hold a written licence to distribute everything you list, keep your registration and payment details accurate and current, and comply with these terms and with applicable Indian law.

What may be listed

Only virtual and downloadable goods — e-books, study material, digital proceedings, software and similar digital products. Listings must be accurate, complete and not misleading as to authorship, edition, content or rights.

No print sales from this website

3.1 This website does not sell printed books to the public. It does not hold stock and does not operate a retail print storefront.

3.2 Printed copies are manufactured on a print-on-demand basis, against an order placed by the author or vendor, and delivered to that person. Title passes on delivery.

3.3 If a request for a printed copy reaches us through the website, we forward it to the vendor or author, who may supply the buyer directly. Any such sale is a contract between that person and the buyer. We are not the seller.

3.4 Vendors are free to sell through Amazon, Flipkart, eBay or any other channel. Those are the vendor's own sales, in the vendor's own name, outside this agreement and outside our revenue share.

Ownership and rights warranties

For every item you list you represent and warrant, on a continuing basis, that:

• You own the copyright, or hold a written licence covering distribution in the formats and territories listed.
• Where the item edits, annotates, translates or comments on an existing work, you hold a written licence from the owner of that underlying work. Crediting the original author is not a substitute for a licence.
• Where you rely on the underlying work being in the public domain, you can show the basis — normally the author's date of death or the date of first publication.
• All third-party text, images, figures, tables, datasets and fonts have been cleared.
• The item is not defamatory, obscene or otherwise unlawful, and infringes no copyright, trademark, design, moral right or right of privacy.
• Any previous publication of the item has been disclosed to us in writing.

We may require a signed copyright declaration and supporting documents before or after a listing goes live, and may hold the listing until they are produced.

We do not vet listings

5.1 We do not read, review, evaluate, edit, moderate or curate the content of listed items, and we do not endorse them.

5.2 We do not conduct copyright searches, chain-of-title checks, plagiarism screening or clearance of third-party material. Ownership verification is the vendor's responsibility. We may request proof, but requesting it — or not requesting it — creates no duty to verify and no assurance that we have.

5.3 We may remove or edit a listing at our discretion, particularly where it appears inaccurate, unlawful or the subject of a complaint. Doing so is not an assumption of responsibility for listings generally.

Proceedings and edited volumes

These terms apply equally to conference proceedings, edited volumes and multi-contributor compilations. The listing vendor or editor warrants that every individual contributor has granted the rights needed, that written contributor consents are held, and that they will be produced to us on demand. We do not contact contributors or resolve disputes between them and an editor. On notice of such a dispute we may suspend the listing until it is resolved.

Licence to deliver your goods

By listing an item you grant us a non-exclusive, revocable, worldwide licence to store, market, promote and deliver it to customers through this website. The licence is limited to that purpose, transfers no ownership to us, and ends on delisting — subject to orders already accepted and to records we must retain.

Revenue sharing

Digital sales through this website are shared as follows:

Sales you make through your own channels are outside this arrangement entirely.

Payouts

9.1 Paid to your registered method — bank transfer, UPI or PayPal — as specified at onboarding.

9.2 Minimum payout balance ₹500 or local equivalent. Requests are processed within 7 working days, subject to verification.

9.3 Earnings clear 30 days after the date of sale, to allow for refunds, chargebacks and disputes.

9.4 We may delay, withhold or reverse a payment where there is a suspected fraudulent transaction, a policy breach, a discrepancy in your account details, a live infringement complaint under clause 11, or a claim under clause 12.

Refunds and disputes

Refunds are at our discretion, applying our Return & Refund Policy. Where a refund is issued, the vendor share for that transaction is reversed.

Complaints and takedown

Infringement complaints are handled under our Copyright & IPR Policy. In short: we acknowledge within 24 hours, suspend a listing where the complaint is substantiated on its face, forward it to you within 3 working days, and require your substantive response with documents within 7 days. Suspension is protective and is not an admission of infringement.

Where a complaint is substantiated, we may disclose to the complainant a true account of what we produced and distributed — quantities, downloads and amounts received. Listing on this website constitutes your consent to that disclosure.

Indemnity and set-off

12.1 You shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless Horizon Books, Ignited Minds Edutech Pvt. Ltd., and their directors, officers, employees and printing partners against all claims, legal notices, proceedings, damages, settlements, penalties, costs and reasonable legal fees arising from an item you list or from any breach of these terms.

12.2 The indemnity covers civil and criminal proceedings, survives termination, and applies whether a claim is brought against us alone or jointly with you.

12.3 You may not settle such a claim on terms imposing liability or an admission on us without our written consent. We may conduct our own defence at your cost.

12.4 We may set off amounts owed under this clause against any sums payable to you, and may withhold payouts while a claim is live.

Suspension and termination

Either party may terminate on 7 days' written notice. We may suspend or terminate immediately, without notice, on breach of clause 4, on a substantiated infringement complaint, or on suspected fraud. Clauses 4, 11, 12, 14 and 15 survive termination.

Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability to a vendor is limited to the platform share actually retained by us in respect of that vendor in the twelve months preceding the claim. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, or for loss of revenue, data or goodwill. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited under Indian law.

Governing law and jurisdiction

This agreement is governed by the laws of India. The courts at New Delhi have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in connection with it.

Amendments and contact

We may amend these terms. Each version carries a version number and effective date; superseded versions are kept in the Policy Archive. Changes take effect prospectively, and continued use of the platform after the effective date means you accept them.

Questions and grievances: Grievance Redressal Officer, bookshorizon@gmail.com. Acknowledgement within 24 hours, resolution within 15 days.