Content Policy

All legal fiction is welcome here. The rest of this page is about everything that isn't fiction.

Images

We host text. Images appear in one place, covers, and covers carry the only hard rule on this platform:

No sexual imagery of minors.

Every cover decision lands in exactly one of three outcomes:

  • The subject is an adult: it stays up. That includes small, slight, petite, and young-looking adults. We do not pull covers because a character isn’t broadly built, or because a reader decided someone “looks young.” That is not the standard, and a complaint doesn’t make it the standard.
  • The image is genuinely ambiguous: the image comes down, and nothing happens to the author. No strike, no warning, no flag on the account, no hidden counter ticking up. There is no invisible strike meter and no threshold you’re approaching. Treat it like a formatting request: swap the art, carry on.
  • The image depicts a child: the account closes and the material is reported. No strike ladder, no window to respond.

Those are the only three outcomes.

What we don't do

There is no review queue. Nobody reads your book before it goes live, nobody approves your theme, and there is no retailer above us who can decline your book after we’ve said yes. Elsewhere, the platform accepts a book and a store downstream quietly declines it, and the author finds out when the sales don’t appear. That layer does not exist here.

We also don’t police volume. Six books in a day is fine. There is no cap, no quality bar, and no ranking penalty. Publishing a lot has no effect on your placement, search visibility, or shelf position.

Placement is determined by sales, ratings, views, and recency, and nothing else touches it. No author-level weighting, no editorial promotion, no pay-for-placement. That is how the ordering code works, not a promise about how it might.

Conduct

Conduct rules cover how you use the platform, never what a story is about. Enforcement is three steps, and every one of them is visible:

  • If something is wrong, we tell you. A message, from a person, explaining what and why, with a chance to fix it.
  • If it keeps happening after we’ve told you, we tell you again and say plainly that continuing will close the account.
  • If it still continues, the account closes.

Other platforms run strike systems. We don’t have one, because we don’t need a counter to tell you something’s wrong.

Spam. Uploading the same book under different titles to occupy shelf slots, placeholder or empty files, keyword-stuffed titles or descriptions, or using book pages and reader messages to promote unrelated things. Not spam: publishing frequently, short works, serializing, shared cover templates, revised editions, or writing to a trend.

Account sharing. Reader accounts are one person. Sharing a login so several readers read on one purchase, or selling or renting access, is a conduct violation. Not sharing: your own devices, or a household reading on a shared device. Author accounts are different: run yours how you like. Assistants, editors, co-writers uploading under your account is your call. Two things follow from that: you’re responsible for whatever your account publishes, and anyone with your login can change your payout address, so choose your help accordingly. Unlimited pen names on one account. The only exception: if we’ve closed your account, you don’t publish through someone else’s.

Deliberate mistagging. Adding popular tags for content the book doesn’t contain, or stripping content warnings so a book slips past reader filters. Readers filter by warning, and that is the actual harm: it puts a story in front of someone who specifically asked not to see it. Not mistagging: honest mistakes, missing a tag, uncertainty about an edge case, unusual tags, generous tagging, or a reader simply disagreeing with your labels. The first response to a tagging problem is always a message asking you to fix it.

In every case

You hear from a person, in plain language, before anything happens to your account. Nothing runs in the background, there is no counter you can’t see, and there is no outcome you find out about after the fact. Questions, reports, or anything that doesn’t fit a form: malivenbooks@proton.me, read by a human. Copyright matters follow the DMCA process.