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Pledge reward fulfilment services

Unlike most other crowdfunding platforms, Unbound have a small but dedicated support team to help answer all of your subscribers’ questions, so you can relax and concentrate on writing and getting your book funded. Once your project is funded, we’ll

Anthologies

Anthologies and collections of copyrighted material also need to receive permission from the copyright holder(s) – whether new or previously published material. Typically, copyright will remain with the individual authors, who will grant the editor a

Marketing and Publicity

We have a small but dedicated in-house marketing and publicity team, including staff members dedicated to our new book releases.

When the project is completed, who owns the rights?

As with most publishing contracts, the author retains complete copyright over their work and licenses Unbound to publish their work for a designated time period. Usually this contract stipulates that Unbound will control world rights for the book and

My book has already been published. Can I still use Unbound to crowdfund and publish my book?

Unfortunately, we can't take on a piece of work that has already been published (traditional or self-published) previously. At Unbound, readers support a book because they want to bring a book to life, and be a part of the book’s creative process. Th

If I launch a crowdfunding campaign for my book on Unbound, can someone steal my idea?

If your book idea is written down, the 'expression of the idea' is copyright protected. This means your characters, plot, argument and conclusion. This applies to all projects that are crowdfunding on Unbound. The chances that an agent, editor, criti

What type of books do Unbound publish?

We are happy to consider all kinds of books, including every type of fiction, from literary to romantic, and any kind of non-fiction, from popular reading to cookbooks. We have previously published text-only books, as well as fully illustrated, full