Terms of Sale
Last updated: September 22, 2026
These terms apply when you buy a PDF edition directly from Sticking Place Books through this website. They do not apply to books you buy from Amazon, Bookshop.org, IngramSpark, or any other retailer — those sales are governed by that retailer’s own terms.
Who you are buying from
Sticking Place Books is the publisher of record. Payments are processed by Stripe through its Managed Payments service, and Stripe’s Link is the merchant of record for your purchase: it takes your payment, calculates and remits any sales tax or VAT, sends your receipt and invoice, and handles any payment dispute. Your card statement will show a charge from LINK.COM* followed by our name. We never see or store your card details.
Where we can sell
We sell direct PDF editions worldwide, apart from a small number of countries our payment provider cannot serve. Prices may be shown in your local currency. Any sales tax or VAT that applies in your country is calculated and shown at checkout before you pay, and is collected and remitted on our behalf by Stripe. Our books are also available from the retail partners listed on every book page.
What you get
- A complete PDF of the book, watermarked with your email address and order number on every page.
- A download link, sent by email and shown on screen immediately after payment. The link does not expire.
- Up to ten downloads per order.
Immediate delivery and your right to cancel
Because the book is delivered digitally and immediately, by completing your purchase you ask us to begin delivery right away and you acknowledge that once the file has been downloaded you lose any statutory right to cancel that would otherwise apply to distance sales of digital content.
Refunds
- If you have not downloaded the file, we will refund you in full, for any reason, within 30 days of purchase.
- If the file is faulty — corrupt, incomplete, the wrong book, or unreadable on a mainstream PDF reader — we will fix it or refund you in full, whether or not you have downloaded it. Tell us what went wrong and we will make it right.
Refunds go back to the card you paid with, usually within five to ten business days. You can ask us directly, or through Link support using the link in your receipt. When we refund an order, the download link stops working.
What you may do with it
Your purchase is a licence for personal, non-commercial reading, not a transfer of copyright. You may read it, print it for your own use, and keep backups. You may not redistribute it, upload it to a file-sharing service or repository, resell it, or use it to train a machine-learning model. Teaching and scholarly use beyond fair use is welcome — please ask us and we will almost certainly say yes.
If something goes wrong
If your payment succeeded but no book arrived, nothing is lost. Our system retries automatically and alerts us if it is unable to complete the delivery. Give it ten minutes, then contact us with your order number and we will deliver the book by hand.
Your information
To sell you a book, we keep your name, email address, billing country, order number and download history, and record which copy was issued to you. Our privacy policy explains how we use this information and how long we retain it. Stripe holds your payment details and billing address under its own privacy policy.
Changes and contact
We may update these terms from time to time; the version that applies to your purchase is the one in force when you place your order. If you have any questions, please contact us.