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Please note that this contract contains the terms of publication with BlueRose Publishers Pvt Ltd.
Please sign electronically and/or on all the printed pages of this document and return to BlueRose.
I understand that, nomination will authorize the nominee to receive benefits, and/or royalty, and/or
the right toclaim the copyrights of the content through a legal process after my death.
Publishing Agreement
WHEREAS:
1. The Author remains the legal Publisher of the Work and the Distributor is involved in the business of designing,
promoting, purchasing, printing, distributing and selling books, manuscripts, manuals, novels, educational material
and other publication work.
2. The Author has represented that he/she has been granted the sole and exclusive right, title, interest, permission and
license as may be required from the copyright holder to Distribute the Books either by the Author or any other
Person or Organization appointed or authorized by the Author within the Territory and is further authorized to
represent, negotiate and permit others to use and commercially exploit the Printed/Electronic Books (Work).
3. The Author has approached the Distributor with a request to design/ procure orders/ market/ promote/ publicize/ sell
and distribute as per Annexure A (as defined below) the Work.
4. Accordingly, based on the representations and warranties of the Author and upon the request of the Author, the
Distributor has agreed to design/ procure orders/ market/ promote/ publicize/ sell and distribute as per Annexure A
(as defined below) the Work subject to and in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual covenants contained in this Agreement, the
adequacy of which is hereby expressly acknowledged, the Parties, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as
follows:
4. TAX WITHOLDING
Authorities require BlueRose to collect tax certifications from all authors and publishers and withhold all required taxes.
Allauthors and publishers must complete the required formalities as per govt. regulations to withdraw the withheld taxes.
5. ACCOUNT SECURITY
Author, Publisher or Agent, are responsible for controlling access to their Author Dashboard/Account. When signed up
for the Author Dashboard, the Author will provide Distributor with a valid email address, phone number and a password
as their login credentials. The Author acknowledges their responsibility to choose a secure email/password combination,
and it is their responsibility to keep the email/password combination private and secure and update password as needed
to maintain account security.
6. UNDERTAKINGS
The Author undertakes to supply the Distributor with an electronic catalogue containing the Metadata and the complete
specification/information of the Work or as requested in the format as prescribed by the Distributor. [MSWord].
Files shall be delivered by the Author to the Distributor via Google upload, Courier, Partnered Portal or sent from the
Author’s Official E-Mail Address or as agreed.
9. INDEMNITY
The Author hereby indemnifies and keeps indemnified and holds the Distributor, its employees, directors, representatives,
agents and Affiliates, harmless at all times against all actions, proceedings, claims, demands, liability, costs, losses
(including reasonable attorney’s fees) that may be suffered or incurred by the Distributor arising directly or indirectly as
a result of any breach, negligence, commission and/or omission on the part of the Author (“Losses”) of its obligations
under this Agreement, including but not limited to those arising out of the breach of any of the representations or
warranties laid out in Clause 8 (Representations and Warranties)by the Author for which the Author shall be fully
responsible and liable, including for the Losses arising out of any third party claims relating to (i) the Intellectual
Property Rights of the Author in the Printed/Electronic Work; and (ii) the contents of the Printed/Electronic Work.
10. INFRINGMENTS
10.1Removal of Infringing or Defamatory Work of Author. Distributor takes claims of infringement seriously and may
take immediate action upon notice from someone claiming to be an Infringed party. Generally, upon receipt of a
written notice from a party infringed or defamed by Author’s material (or someone purporting to be his agent,
publisher, attorney in fact or assign), Distributor will remove the Author’s Work and reserves the right to remove
any and all information about the Author, the Author’s Work or the publisher from the Site. The burden of proof, in
such cases will be on the author and they will have to provide demanded documents for us to republish/ reinstate the
work.
10.2Infringement by Others Upon Author’s Work. If an Author or copyright holder learns that a third party is violating
Author’s copyright or pirating or illegally distributing a BlueRose -published work, the Author shall inform
BlueRose; however, it is the Author’s responsibility to seek relief from the offending parties. If that work is
published on BlueRose, BlueRose will remove it per section 8.1 above.
10.3Rights Clearances and Other Legal Matters. It is Author’s responsibility to secure permissions to the Work prior to
the time Author submits such work if any material from the work belongs to, or has been licensed to, someone else.
11. VALIDITY
This Agreement shall become binding on the Parties from the Effective Date and shall continue to be in force up to a
date falling one (1) years and six (6) Months from the Effective Date (“Validity Period”).
Automatic Extension: Should the Parties fail to notify each other prior to the expiry of the Validity Period, the
Agreement shall be deemed to have been automatically renewed as extended for further one (1) calendar year at a time.
The Distributor reserves the right to set-off the Annual Contract renewal from the sales proceeds.
The expiry of the Validity Period shall not release the Parties from their liability for the infringement of any of the terms,
covenants and undertakings of this Agreement.
12. TERMINATION
This Agreement may be terminated at any time by either Party, by providing an advance written notice of sixty (60)
Working Days without any reason or cause.
In the event of termination of this Agreement in accordance with this Clause 12 (Termination), all balances due to one
Party by the other Party shall be payable within sixty (60) Working Days from the date of termination of this Agreement.
The Author agrees to buy all returned/stocked copies of Work in case of termination by either party, which in any case
will not exceed 20 units.
This contract stands cancelled in case of non-payment and/or if the Author fails to establish contact via email for 15
consecutive days after initiating the project/depositing of first installment. Should the Author wish to start again after the
contract is cancelled, of Rs. One thousand (INR 1000) will be charged over and above the balance due
Notwithstanding anything contrary contained in this Clause 12 (Termination), in the event of a breach of the provisions
of this Agreement by the Publisher, the Agreement can be terminated by the Distributor with immediate effect.
14. NOTICES
Any notice, communication, statement, request or correspondence required under the terms of this Agreement shall be in
writing, in the English language and shall be delivered to the Author’s Official Email ID and the Distributor’s Official
Email ID as the case may be.
17. MISCELLANEOUS
Severability: If any provision of this Agreement (or any portion thereof) is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, the
remaining provisions of this Agreement shall not be affected by such determination, and shall continue to be binding
upon the Parties and shall be enforceable.
Waiver: No delay or omission by either Party in whole or in part in exercising any right under this Agreement shall
amount to or be construed as a waiver thereof and no waiver or non-exercise of any right on any occasion shall preclude
any subsequent exercise of any such right.
Earlier Agreements: This Agreement replaces all prior distribution agreements between the Parties, without the necessity
of termination.
Integral Part: The Recitals, Schedules, Annexures, Exhibits and Appendixes shall form an integral part of the Agreement.
Survival: All the rights and obligations that by their nature or as stated to continue beyond termination will survive any
termination of this Agreement.
Entire Agreement: Each Party acknowledges that they have read this Agreement understand it and agree to be bound by
its terms and further agree that this Agreement is the complete and exclusive statement of the Agreement between the
Parties with respect to the subject matter herein and supersedes all prior proposals, understandings and all other
agreements, oral and written. This Agreement may not be modified or altered except by a written instrument duly
executed by both Parties.
GENERAL TERMS OF AGREEMENT
1. The Author agrees to make payment as per the final payment plan as in Annexure A, as self-publishing charges,
which is inclusive of the chosen {contract_package} Package charge and services, as in Annexure B. The author is
fully authorized to customize or change the publishing package before submitting the final draft of the manuscript.
The changes should be informed to the distributor in writing over the email. The distributor agrees to inform
customization details including changed costing, publishing/delivery deadline to the Author. The changes will be
enforced upon mutual agreement of the parties.
*Add-on charges may vary as per the final specifications.
2. The Author is submitting the Work in their own will to the Distributor for the purpose of pre-press activities and
distribution of both paperback and eBook (if opted for) on select portals in India and partner territories. The
Distributor agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the script, and will make sure to prevent the script from any
misuse/copyright infringement until distribution.
3. The Distributor will print and bring into circulation the Work being submitted by the Author, within a timeframe of 50
working days of the Author’s payment getting cleared and final Work submission to the Publication Manager in MS
Word format. In the rare case that the publication of Work gets delayed for reasons beyond one’s control – like
unavailability of paper, flood, acute power crisis, strike of press workers, etc., the Distributor will keep the Author
informed through email/phone and will do their best to get the book published in time. The Distributor will publish the
Work in the quoted time frame, provided the Author is prompt in their responses and approves the final text and the
cover design for printing, at the earliest.
4. The Author can expect the services from the Distributor as per Annexure B.
5. Additional services not listed in Annexure B are available on additional payment (add-ons). Any other minor
changes to the agreed services will be made upon mutual consent and will only be notified in writing via email and
no changes in the original contract will be required.
6. The Work cannot be printed and distributed by two different companies in the same language and the same country
at the same time. The Author can, however, withdraw the Work from the Distributor at any time, if the Work is
selected for publication by any conventional publisher; or for any other reasons. There will be no fee for this, but the
Author will have to buy the stocked copies, which in any case will not be more than 20 units*. The Author must
inform the Publisher through email sixty (60) Days in advance so that the latter can stop selling and enlisting the
Work. There will be no refund made by the Distributor for the Author withdrawing a Work or withholding
publication.
7. The Distributor takes no responsibility of the content of the Work. The views expressed in the Work are solely those
of the Author, and the Distributor has nothing to do with the ownership of the content. The Printer and Distributor
will not be a party with the author if any lawsuit arises from the content of the book. The Distributor may withdraw
and withhold the distribution of the Work if any such lawsuit/legal proceedings happen regarding the content of the
Work, and will relist only after the final judgement is delivered in the favor of the Author.
8. The Author assures that the Work is original as per the Clause 8 (Representation and Warranties). In case the Work
is found to be plagiarized, or copied, or translated without the consent of the copyright holder, the Distributor will
have the right to withdraw the Work from circulation, providing no refund to the Author.
9. The Author assures that they own the right/copyright of all the images and photos used inside the Work. The Author
understands that no image can be used for which they do not own the copyright. The Distributor will not be a party
of any lawsuit, if any, arising from anyone challenging the use of copyrighted photo(s)/ image(s) in the Work, and
the Distributor reserves the right to withdraw the Work if any such lawsuit arises because of the use of copyrighted
image/photo.
10. The Author assures that the book is not among the 4 categories of books that the Publisher does not print and
distribute:
Pornographic Works
Works propagating the ideology of terrorist groups
Works containing personal attacks or hatred against real person(s), organization(s), or communities(s)
Works that promote superstition and/or superstitious ideologies.
11. The Author can resell the books they receive as complementary copies from the Distributor, and is entitled to get the
additional copies at Author Copy Cost and shipping fee as applicable.
12. Under certain Publishing Packages, the Distributor will build and maintain a standard website for the Author, where
the Work will be featured as a promotional measure. For additional features in the website, the additional cost will
have to be borne by the Author. The website will become the Author’s property after handover and the Author will
have to renew the domain name of the website at the end of every year, if willing to continue using the website after
one year. The average cost of renewal of domain with maintenance, server and backup fee is Rs 6,000 plus
applicable taxes. Maintenance only covers fixing of minor errors on the website and addition or removal of content
will cost extra based on the work volume.
13. The Work will be available at the Distributor’s partnered online stores like Amazon, Flipkart, etc. in India and
abroad as per the selected package. Buyers will also be able to buy it directly from the Distributor’s website,
BlueRose Store. Due to unanticipated order flow, the Work may go out of stock anytime, but will be reinstated
within a span of 3 working days.
14. To fulfill the orders from across the nation, the Distributor employs a number of registered printing vendors.
Thereby, the print quality including the page texture, paper brand, etc. may vary slightly depending upon the order
volume and location. The vendors are all informed about the quality guidelines but since the raw materials are
sourced from different brands, there might be minor changes in the appearance and feel of the final printed product.
15. The Author can make changes in the text and cover files in not more than two attempts and approve the Work for
printing. No changes are possible once the Work is in press. Paid changes are, however, possible and the new
version will only be put into circulation after the existing inventory is sold out. The revision cost of Work may vary
depending upon the volume of changes required.
16. The Author can also separately promote their Work to build awareness and increase sales.
17. The Author can get their Work translated in any other language and publish translated version of the Work in the
same country without seeking the permission of the Distributor.
18. The Distributor shall not be held responsible for unanticipated errors and distortions in the text file in languages
other than English. The Author is liable to make all final corrections in the distorted file. Any additional support by
the Distributor in fixing the distortions will incur extra cost depending upon the error volume.
19. Author complementary copies in all packages are shipped at no additional shipment fee at any given address in
India. In case the Author wishes to receive the complementary copies at locations other than India, extra shipping
fee will be charged based on the weight and delivery location.
20. The Distributor offers Author royalty as per the website calculator, from all sales proceeds of the physical book and
or eBook. Actual royalty amount is calculated based on the Work’s final specifications. The Author can decide the
final MRP of the Work, which has to be equal to or greater than the suggested MSP by the Distributor. Production
cost and MSP are subject to change and the revised costing may change the royalty amount.
*Profit = MRP – (Production Cost + Packaging Cost+ Shipment Cost+ Handling fee + Commission)
*Royalty is 10% of the MRP in case of distribution through physical Stores.
*Royalty is 25% of the MRP of eBook in case of eBook distribution from all portals.
*Please be informed the royalty amount is different on BlueRose and third-party channels like Amazon, Flipkart etc.
Kindly refer to website for exact amount.
Revision of costing post-publication of the book, the author agrees to pay an additional amount to revise the MRP of
the book on the print-ready files and Ecom portals. In the event, the author is unable to make the payment within 30
days of intimation, the company has the right to hold the listing or adjust the difference from the royalty amount.
21. Cancellations, if any, have to be made within 72 hours of ordering and payment. No requests for refund will be
entertained after that.
Author’s Signature
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*This agreement stands null and void in case of non-payment of the self-publication charges.
Annexure A
You've chosen the PREMIUM PLUS package and the payment break-up is as follows:
Special Note
The total payable amount can be paid in X parts.
The booking amount is Rs - Due immediately
First Installment is Rs - For project initiation
Second Installment is Rs - After 20 days of I Installment
Third Installment is Rs - After 20 days of II Installment
Fourth Installment is Rs- After 20 days of III Installment
Fifth Installment is Rs- After 20 days of IV Installment
Annexure B
Copyrights
ISBN & Machine Readable Barcode
Printing Specifications
Distribution
*Amazon Prime services are only for books in paperback or hardbound without a jacket, & no random colored
pages.
* Min MRP suggested for Prime Distribution is Rs. 200 & above.
Marketing Tools & Strategies
Marketing Assistance
Superior Author Website with .in or .com domain
Amazon Author Page
Amazon Sponsored - 3 Months
Physical Book Launch Event Management OR Online Book Launch Event Management**
Online Media Release upto 40 News Portals
2 Newspaper Coverages
BookStore Listing- 6 Popular Cities
LitGleam eMagazine Advertisement - Premium Coverage
LitGleam eMagazine Subscription - 1 Year
4 High Definition Digital Posters
Email Campaign with a reach of 10,000 book lovers
Bumper Ads - 30 days
Superior Video Trailer
Video Trailer Promotion on Youtube- 30 days
Facebook Page Setup
Facebook Ad Campaign - 30 days
Instagram Ad Campaign - 30 days
BlueRose Book Awards Nomination - Eligibility
Event Notifications - 2 Years
**Physical Book Launch Management: Standy, Banner, Anchor, Manager, Promotions on Social Media before and after.
Venue cost to be borne by the author as per their selection.
InstaLive (Online) Book Launch Management: Event banner creation, Social media promotion 7 days prior to the launch
date, Reels to create buzz, Promotional post after launch, Mediator to host the event and engage audience.
Author Dashboard
Daily Sales notification
On-Demand Payout
Authorized Signature