Effective date: 1 July 2026
These terms cover everyone who uses Cover Culture. They are organised as the Designer Terms, the Customer Terms, the IP & Takedown Policy, and the General Terms, which share the definitions below.
These terms govern your use of Cover Culture as a Designer.
You licence your Cover Design to us; we sell the Books. You are not the seller. You earn a royalty whenever a Book using your Cover Design sells.
Each Cover Design is tied to one Book, which may be offered in several formats (such as hardcover, softcover, and digital editions). You earn on any format sold.
You create a Cover Design by choosing a title from our catalogue and designing a cover for it. More than one designer may create a cover for the same title; each cover is a separate listing. We don't guarantee that yours will be the only cover for a title, that it will be listed, or that it will be featured or ranked in any particular way.
Any information you provide about a Cover Design must be accurate and not misleading.
Covers must meet our technical, quality, and content requirements, including our Content Standards. We may review a Cover Design before listing it, and we may decline to list it.
We control the catalogue and set retail prices. We decide which titles, formats, and covers are offered and how Books are presented, and we may add, change, or discontinue any of them. We act as publisher of record and assign each Book an ISBN or equivalent identifier; that edition is sold only through Cover Culture.
We may remove any Cover Design at any time, at our discretion and for any reason. If we remove a Cover Design for reasons other than a breach by you, we stop offering it for new sales, but royalties you have already validly earned on past sales remain payable. If we remove it because it breaches these terms, we may also withhold or reverse related earnings, as described in section 3.
You may remove your Cover Design at any time; what happens then is described in section 4.
You must not create spam, duplicate, or misleading listings, or manipulate search results, rankings, sales, or reviews, whether through bots or other automated means.
When you create a Cover Design — whether you upload a finished file, build it in our online editor, or use our AI tools — you are responsible for everything you bring to it: files and images you upload, and the prompts or reference material you provide.
For everything you bring, you confirm that:
Where you use tools or assets we provide — including our AI features and any stock content or templates — we are responsible for licensing those. You remain responsible for your inputs, and for not using our tools to create infringing or prohibited content. We may ask whether AI was used in a Cover Design, and you agree to tell us.
Your responsibilities in this section cover your Cover Design only. You are not responsible for the interior content of any Book, which we source.
To the extent permitted by law, you waive any moral rights in your Cover Design, so that we may resize, crop, and place it across Book formats and in marketing without asking again.
If a Cover Design breaches this section, we may remove it, stop selling Books that use it, withhold or reverse related earnings, and suspend or close your account.
You keep your copyright. You own your Cover Design, and nothing in these terms transfers that ownership to us.
In exchange for the royalties in section 5, you grant us a worldwide licence to host, display, and reproduce your Cover Design; to apply it to Books and produce those Books in any format — including having physical copies manufactured by our Print Provider and creating digital editions; to sell those Books; and to market and promote your Cover Design and the Books. You also allow us to sublicense these rights to our Print Provider and to our distribution and marketing partners, so that Books can be made, sold, and promoted across the channels we use. We may use your name, pseudonym, or shop name to attribute and promote your work, and we will credit you where practical.
We may sell Books through our own, affiliated, or third-party channels — including our website, events and fairs, and wholesale or distribution partners — sometimes at discounted or wholesale prices. Your royalty is calculated on the Net Revenue actually received on each sale, whatever the channel.
What you upload stays yours to use elsewhere. The licence above is non-exclusive for any artwork or other material you upload — you remain free to use that material however you like, including on other platforms.
Covers you compose with our tools are exclusive to Cover Culture. Where a Cover Design is created or assembled using our online editor, templates, fonts, stock content, or AI features, you agree not to reproduce, sell, or use that finished Cover Design anywhere other than Cover Culture. We assign each Book an ISBN or equivalent identifier and act as its publisher of record; you may not sell a Book under that identifier through any channel other than Cover Culture.
The licence ends when you remove a Cover Design or leave Cover Culture, and we stop offering it for new sales straight away. A limited right survives only so that we can complete orders already placed or in production, fulfil any reprint or return on those orders, and remove residual copies from backups, caches, and marketing already distributed. Books already sold are unaffected.
Your royalty is a percentage of Net Revenue, shown in your dashboard. We may set different or higher rates for individual Designers or programmes, and we may change rates going forward; the rate in effect at the time of a sale applies to that sale.
Net Revenue means the price received for a Book, less the print cost, payment-processing fees, taxes, and any discount applied to that sale. Shipping is excluded. Your percentage is applied after these deductions.
We don't guarantee any level of sales or earnings.
Royalties mature 10 days after a sale, so any return or chargeback can settle first. A sale reversed before maturation is not paid.
We aim to pay matured royalties monthly, around the 15th, for the previous calendar month, to the payout account you provide. Timing may vary with payment-processor schedules, weekends, and public holidays.
If your balance is below US$20 on a payout date, it rolls over to the following month until it reaches US$20.
If a sale is reversed after we have paid it, we deduct that amount from your future earnings.
Keep your payout and tax details accurate and current. We may hold payment until you provide valid details, and you bear the cost of any payment that fails because your details were incorrect.
If we are unable to reach you to pay you for 12 months, the earnings are forfeited, and we donate the equivalent amount to Project Gutenberg.
Each month we issue a Statement of Earnings in your dashboard. You agree that this Statement is the record of your earnings and the basis for payment between us for the period it covers, and that any tax we withhold will be shown on it.
Please do not send us separate invoices for earnings already covered by a Statement of Earnings, unless your local law requires you to issue one.
You are responsible for your own taxes on your royalties. We may withhold tax where the law requires, and we may ask you for tax documentation before paying you.
These terms govern your purchase of Books on Cover Culture.
Prices may be shown exclusive of tax. Depending on where your order ships, you may be responsible for import VAT, customs duties, or handling fees charged on delivery. We may collect applicable taxes at checkout where required.
When you place an order, you make an offer to buy a Book at the price shown. A contract is formed when we confirm your order. The price is fixed at the time you order. We may decline or cancel an order — for example if a Book is unavailable, a listing contained an error, or we suspect fraud — and if we have already charged you, we will refund you.
Physical Books are printed to order by our print partner and then shipped, so delivery takes longer than a stocked item would. We show estimated production and delivery times at checkout; these are estimates, not guarantees. We ship to the destinations shown at checkout. Risk of loss or damage passes to you on delivery.
Digital editions are delivered electronically and are not shipped. They are licensed to you for your own personal use; you may not resell or redistribute them.
Because physical Books are printed to order, you can cancel only before your Book enters production. Once it is in production it cannot be cancelled — but if it arrives damaged or faulty (section 5), or you have the right to change your mind (section 6), those still apply.
If a Book arrives damaged or faulty, tell us within 30 days of delivery and we will put it right — normally a free replacement or a refund. We may ask for a photo, and you usually will not need to send the Book back. This applies to every Book, including personalised and digital ones.
If you are a consumer in the EU or UK, you have 14 days to change your mind and get a refund — this covers standard catalogue Books and digital editions, including after you have downloaded a digital edition. For low-value Books we may refund you without asking for the Book back.
This right does not apply to personalised Books — a Book made with your own cover design that is not a standard catalogue listing, because it is made to your specification.
Damaged or faulty Books are always covered under section 5, whatever the type.
Nothing in these terms limits any rights you have under mandatory consumer law, including your rights if a Book is faulty, not as described, or not of satisfactory quality. Those rights apply in addition to anything in these terms.
This policy explains how to report content on Cover Culture that infringes your rights, and what happens when we receive a report. It applies to all content on Cover Culture, including cover designs and, as our catalogue grows, interior and other content.
If you believe content on Cover Culture infringes your intellectual property or other rights, send a notice to ip@coverculture.co with:
We accept notices in this form from anywhere.
We review reports and may remove or disable the reported content, suspend listings, or take other action. When we remove or restrict content, we give the affected user a statement of reasons — what we did and why — unless the law prevents us from doing so.
If your content is removed and you believe this was a mistake or that you hold the necessary rights, you can send a counter-notice to ip@coverculture.co with your contact details, the removed content, and a good-faith statement that it was removed in error or that you have the right to use it. We may restore the content if the complaint is not pursued.
You may also appeal any removal, restriction, or account suspension by contacting support@coverculture.co. We will review your appeal and respond.
We terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe the rights of others, as we judge in our reasonable discretion.
This policy also covers trademark, publicity, privacy, and other rights — not only copyright. Use the same contact and give us enough detail to identify the right and the content.
We may review content before or after it appears, using human review, automated tools, or both. We are not obliged to monitor all content, and reviewing some content does not mean we review all of it.
We act in good faith, but we are not a court. We decide whether to remove, keep, or restore content based on the information available to us. Nothing here requires us to resolve disputes between users or third parties.
These terms apply to everyone who uses Cover Culture, alongside the Designer Terms and the Customer Terms.
We provide Cover Culture with reasonable care, but we don't guarantee that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or always available. Except as required by law, the platform and our services are provided "as is" and "as available." This does not affect a Customer's statutory rights in the Books they buy (see Customer Terms, section 7), or any rights that cannot be excluded by law.
We are responsible for loss we cause you where the law makes us responsible. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of profits, revenue, data, or goodwill.
Our total liability to you:
Nothing in these terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law — and, for Customers, nothing limits your statutory rights.
If you are a Designer, you agree to cover us — together with our affiliates, our print and payment partners, and our staff — for any claims, losses, damages, and reasonable costs (including legal fees) arising from your Cover Design, your breach of these terms, or your infringement of anyone's rights.
If you are a Customer or other user, you agree to cover us on the same basis for claims arising from your misuse of Cover Culture or your breach of these terms.
If a claim covered by this section arises, we will tell you, and you will cooperate with us in handling it. We may take control of the defence, and you will not settle any claim in a way that affects us without our agreement.
If something goes wrong, please contact us first at support@coverculture.co. Most problems can be sorted out quickly, and we ask that you give us up to 60 days to resolve a dispute with us informally before starting any formal proceedings.
These terms, and any dispute arising out of them or out of your use of Cover Culture, are governed by the laws of Israel.
If you are a Designer or other business user, the courts of Israel have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute.
If you are a Customer, nothing above removes the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of the country where you live, and you may bring proceedings before the courts of your home country. Where your local law gives you rights or remedies beyond these terms, those continue to apply.
You must be at least 18 to register as a Designer. If you are buying a Book, you must be old enough to form a contract where you live, or have a parent or guardian's permission. Cover Culture is not directed at children, and if we learn that someone under 18 holds a Designer account, we may close it.
You are responsible for your account, for keeping your login details secure, and for the accuracy of the information you give us. Tell us promptly if you believe your account has been used without your permission.
We may suspend or close your account, or remove your access, if you breach these terms or the law, or otherwise at our discretion. You may close your account at any time. If your account ends, the licence you granted us winds down as described in the Designer Terms (section 4), any earnings are handled as described in those terms, and the sections meant to continue — including licence tails, indemnity, liability limits, and dispute terms — still apply.
We may update these terms from time to time. We will post the updated terms and, for material changes, let you know (for example by email or a notice on the site). If you keep using Cover Culture after a change takes effect, you accept the updated terms. If you do not agree, stop using Cover Culture, and if you are a Designer you may close your account.
You agree that we may communicate with you electronically — by email or through Cover Culture — and that this satisfies any legal requirement for written notice. How we handle personal data is explained in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms and is subject to applicable data-protection law, including Israel's Privacy Protection Law and, where relevant, the EU and UK GDPR.
You confirm that you are not located in, or a resident of, a country or territory subject to comprehensive trade sanctions, and that you are not on any applicable sanctions list. You agree not to use Cover Culture in breach of applicable sanctions or export-control laws.
These terms, together with the policies they refer to, are the entire agreement between you and us about Cover Culture. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest continues to apply. If we do not enforce a right, that is not a waiver of it.
We may assign or transfer these terms, including to a successor or affiliated company; you may not transfer yours without our consent. We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control. Nothing in these terms creates a partnership, agency, or employment relationship between us.
Our print and payment partners may rely on the parts of these terms that protect them (including the indemnity and liability limits) as if they were a party to them. Otherwise, no one other than you and us has rights under these terms.
Cover Culture is operated by Uri Ashi (ID 038794509), 7 Arba Aratzot Street, Tel Aviv 6248609, Israel. For questions, notices, or legal enquiries, contact us at support@coverculture.co. For intellectual-property notices, use ip@coverculture.co.
Copyright © 2026. All rights reserved.