Upon This Rock Publishing
Seller Agreement
Last updated September 8, 2026 · Version 2026-09-08-v1
Upon This Rock Publishing is operated by Solmite Corporation, Murray, Utah, United States.
1.Parties and acceptance
This agreement is between you (the “seller”) and Solmite Corporation, Murray, Utah, United States, which operates Upon This Rock Publishing.
You must be at least 18 years old. If you accept on behalf of a storefront, an estate, a business or another person, you confirm you have authority to bind them. We record who accepted, which storefront they were acting for, which version of this agreement and the privacy notice they were shown, and the time of acceptance. Nobody can accept on your behalf.
2.What the platform does — and does not do
Upon This Rock Publishing is a storefront and digital library platform. We host your listings, take payment, deliver digital purchases, keep buyers' libraries working, and promote the catalog within the community.
We do not provide, and this agreement does not include:
- editing, proofreading, design, recording, narration or production services;
- printing, warehousing, packing, shipping or pickup handling;
- distribution to outside retailers or services such as Audible, Amazon or iTunes; or
- any guarantee of sales, ranking, ad spend or promotional placement.
Our audience is currently this community, and our operations are focused on the United States. We make no promise of international sales or of securing rights outside the United States.
3.Rights you keep and the licence you grant
You keep your copyright. Nothing here assigns ownership of your work, and nothing here grants any right to use your work to train artificial-intelligence models.
For as long as your work is listed, and afterwards to the extent needed to serve buyers who already paid, you grant Solmite Corporation a non-exclusive licence — subject to the fees and payment terms in this agreement, under which you are paid for every sale — to:
- host and store the work, and make the technical copies and format conversions needed to deliver and play it back reliably;
- display, sell, deliver and stream it to buyers through the platform; and
- promote it using its cover, title, contributor names, description and short samples in listings, on the site, in our email and on our social channels.
We may sublicense these rights only as far as necessary to the service providers who host, store, deliver or email on our behalf.
If you unlist a work or leave, this licence continues only to the narrow extent needed to keep existing buyers' purchases working, and to keep records we must retain.
4.Your rights warranty
For every item you list — including free items — you warrant that you own or have all necessary rights and permissions, covering as applicable:
- the text and any illustrations or interior artwork;
- for audio, both the sound recording (master) and the underlying composition or text;
- any samples, quotations or third-party material included;
- the performers, narrators, musicians and engineers involved;
- cover art, photographs and any likeness appearing in them; and
- any existing exclusivity, option or distribution contract that could conflict with listing here.
You also warrant that the listing is accurate, that the work complies with our Content Policy, and that it is lawful to sell.
5.Indemnity
You will indemnify Solmite Corporation against third-party claims, and reasonable related costs, that arise from your infringement of someone's rights, your breach of this agreement, or unlawful material you submitted.
We will notify you promptly of any such claim, will not settle it without your consent (not to be unreasonably withheld), and will cooperate with your defence; you may take over the defence with counsel reasonably acceptable to us. This indemnity does not cover our own misconduct or negligence, and it does not apply to liabilities that cannot lawfully be shifted. Nothing in this agreement removes Solmite Corporation's own legal duties.
6.Fees
There is no listing fee, no setup fee and no subscription.
A 9% seller fee is deducted from each sale. It includes ordinary payment processing and platform promotion. Buyers separately pay a 6% service fee that supports the platform, customer support and their library; that fee is not yours and is not deducted from you.
Both fees are calculated on the actual discounted item price, excluding shipping and sales tax. Free items carry no checkout fee and no platform cut.
Worked example on a $20.00 item:
- Seller fee (9%): $1.80
- Your net: $18.20
- Buyer service fee (6%): $1.20
- Buyer pays before tax and shipping: $21.20
- Platform gross before its own expenses: $3.00
You receive 91% of the discounted item price. That is not 91% of the total the buyer is charged, because tax, shipping and the buyer service fee are not part of your item price.
Any promotion that reduces what you earn requires your approval. We do not apply seller-funded discounts on your behalf.
7.Payouts
Earnings become eligible once the item has reached the buyer — delivered or picked up — and the funds have cleared. Digital items reach that point automatically the moment payment is approved and the content is available to the buyer; there is no fulfilment button to press for digital sales. Physical items become eligible when you mark them delivered or picked up in the seller dashboard. Marking an order shipped or in transit is a progress update and does not on its own make it eligible.
Payouts run on a monthly schedule. A scheduled payout is sent when your net eligible balance — earnings less refunds and adjustments — reaches $100.00. A balance below that amount rolls forward to the next run; it is never forfeited.
Once an amount has met both conditions — fulfilled and cleared, and the $100.00 threshold reached — we will pay it within 30 days. Where the monthly run would fall outside that window, we will issue the payment earlier so the 30-day ceiling is met. There is no separate holding period stacked on top of the monthly schedule.
You receive an itemised statement for each payout, showing the orders included and any refund adjustments. Fee rates recorded against past orders are not restated when rates change.
If you close your storefront, you can request your remaining balance regardless of the threshold, once outstanding orders, refunds and disputes have been settled.
8.Refunds and chargebacks
The Refunds & Cancellations policy governs refunds. In summary, for error cases — duplicate purchase, unavailable item, defective file, unresolved access problem, or content removed on a rights complaint — the buyer receives the item price, applicable tax, the buyer service fee charged on it, and unused shipping where relevant.
When a refund is issued, your 9% platform fee on the refunded amount is reversed back to you. Ordinary payment processing that we cannot recover is absorbed by us, consistent with the promise that your fee already includes ordinary processing. You remain responsible for documented losses attributable to fraud or rights violations on your side.
Change-of-mind returns of physical goods are handled by you under the return terms you publish on your storefront.
9.Your fulfilment obligations
- Keep listings, formats, availability, stock and prices accurate.
- Ship or hand over physical orders promptly, keep the buyer updated, and mark each order delivered or picked up in the seller dashboard once the buyer has it.
- Upload complete, working files. A missing chapter, unreadable file or wrong edition is an error refund at your cost of the sale being reversed.
- Answer buyer messages about your own orders in reasonable time.
- Use buyer contact and address details only to fulfil that buyer's order. They are not a marketing list, and you may not add buyers to mailings without their consent.
- Handle physical returns you have agreed to accept.
10.Review, unlisting and suspension
This is a curated platform. We may approve, decline, request changes to, unlist or suspend a listing or a storefront for fit, quality, accuracy, rights, safety or legal reasons, as described in the Content Policy. Where we can, we tell you why and let you fix or contest it.
11.Buyers keep what they bought
Unlisting a title, or closing your storefront, stops new sales. It does not remove access for people who already bought. Their purchase, the files needed to use it and their personal licence continue, including re-downloading ebooks and music.
Because of that, a title with completed sales is retired rather than erased. You can still fulfil outstanding orders, issue refunds, reconcile your account and view statements after you stop selling.
Narrow exceptions: a refunded purchase ends, content may be removed where the law, a valid rights complaint or confirmed fraud requires it, and we cannot promise the platform will operate forever. Where content must come down, we look at a refund as the remedy and give notice where we can.
12.Format rules you are selling under
- Ebooks — buyers read in the app and download the file you supplied for their own devices. Whether it can be sent to a Kindle depends on the format you upload.
- Audiobooks — buyers listen in the in-app player with chapter navigation and saved progress. Audio files are not downloadable or exportable, and full recordings are served only through short-lived, access-checked links. Protected offline listening may come later; it is not available now and we do not promise it.
- Music — buyers play in the app and download their purchased files.
- Visual art — delivered under the licence and formats you set on the listing.
- Formats are separate purchases unless you explicitly bundle them. An audiobook edition can sit alongside the print and ebook editions of the same work.
We take reasonable measures to protect your files. We do not claim any delivery method is impossible to copy.
13.Data you receive and data you cannot see
For your own orders we give you the buyer's name, email, phone number and, where the item ships or is collected, their address — for fulfilment only.
You cannot see buyers' reading or listening history, bookmarks, highlights or saved positions; those are private to the buyer. You see your order and payout figures, aggregate page-view counts for your own listings, and public play and like counts on music. We do not provide detailed listener analytics. See the Privacy Notice.
14.Term, changes and ending
This agreement runs until you or we end it. You can stop listing at any time. We can suspend or end it for breach, for legal reasons, or on reasonable notice.
We may change this agreement or our fees. For material fee or legal changes we give at least 30 days' notice before they apply to future activity, except where an urgent legal or security issue requires a faster change, and we will ask you to accept the new version before you list again. Changes do not rewrite the terms of sales already completed.
Sections 3 (to the extent needed for existing buyers), 4, 5, 8, 11 and 15 survive the end of this agreement.
15.Liability and governing law
The platform is provided on a reasonable-effort basis, without a warranty of uninterrupted operation or of any level of sales. To the extent permitted by law, Solmite Corporation is not liable for indirect or consequential losses, and our total liability to you in any twelve-month period is limited to the fees we retained from your sales in that period. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Utah, and disputes may be brought in the competent courts of Utah, subject to mandatory consumer and other protections that apply to you. There is no arbitration requirement and no class-action waiver.
16.Contact
Solmite Corporation, Murray, Utah, United States. contact@uponthisrockpublishing.com.
