Terms and Conditions

Humanities-Ebooks LLP is an academic co-operative which distributes all net profit to authors. Its partners are Dr Richard Gravil (the Publisher), Professor Mark Addis (Birmingham City University), Dr Martyn Housden (University of Bradford), Professor John Lennard (University of the West Indies), and Dr Charles Moseley (Hughes Hall, Cambridge). For all contact details please see our personnel page. Questions should normally be addressed to richardgravil@hotmail.com

All our book titles are now in simple PDF format, designed for Adobe Reader 7. Your purchase licenses you to use the book on any computer owned by or assigned to you. It does NOT license you to supply a copy to any other person or to place the book on any form of network. An ebook may not be 'lent', but it may of course be read on your computer by your friends.

Please note: Making a copy of an ebook for anyone other than the purchaser is an actionable breach of copyright.

Twenty titles are now available in print, and more are in preparation.

Ebook Features

Once purchased, the book is yours, permanently.

You may print a copy for your own use, but copying and pasting is disabled.

Our books are navigable using bookmarks, a search tool, and in most cases internal and external hyperlinks.

Our Books

We publish primarily in PDF (designed for Adobe Reader 7) and occasionally in PDC format (a PDC is an encrypted form of PDF, which requires special viewing software, which is provided free).

Some of our titles are available in reflowable format from Mobipocket.com, for use on hand-held devices. Most titles will soon be available in Amazon Kindle format. Some titles are available in paperback from Troubador.co.uk or Lulu.com. The product page for each book states which formats are available.

Your First Purchase

The purchase information that follows applies solely to Ebooks purchased directly from this site, not to books purchased through Mobipocket or accessed through the Google Book Partner Programme.

Paypal Payments

Having chosen your titles and added them to the Cart, and added the details we need to process your order, please make payment through Paypal. (If you have not used Paypal before, you will need to register and decide on the funding account you wish to use.) Subsequent purchases through Paypal are easy, and transactions are secure: your payment is carried out on their servers. We never see your account details.

You will receive separate receipts from Paypal and from us.

PDF PURCHASES (open in Adobe Reader)

As soon as Paypal confirm your payment you will be able to download your book from "My Bookshelf". Adobe Reader 7 is recommended.

Subsequent Purchases

Subsequent Purchases could not be simpler:

Select the book
Log in using the user name and password you supplied previously
Pay through your existing Paypal account.

Access to your new book is immediate. You do not need a new licence. You do not have to instal anything. Each new purchase automatically extends your existing licence to include the new title.

Tax

Sales inside the EC are subject to 17.5% VAT but the stated purchase price includes tax. You will pay only the stated purchase price.

Replacement and Upgrades.

Your licence permits you enjoy trouble free reading of your ebooks or ebooks, and of any subsequent edition of the same book or books. If there is a problem with your book we will investigate and replace it.

Printing

You may print from a PDF book at any time. With a PDC book your licence permits you to print part or all of the book on one occasion. Please note two points, however:

If your printer dialogue has a check-box for fit to page, please check that box (our books are designed primarily for onscreen use and the page is wider than usual for A4 paper). This applies to both PDF and PDC formats.
If you want a printed copy of the whole PDC book you must print the whole book in one operation. Printing a trial page will disable further printing.

Privacy Policy

We do not give any customer information to any other sources, so you can be sure that your details are always secure. We must have your address so as to determine whether we have to pay tax on your purchase, and we need your email address to deliver your licence.

Library Purchases

MyiLibrary

All our titles are available to subscribing Libraries through MyiLibrary.com.