The Governing Framework for Intellectual and Commercial Engagement

Last Updated: May 19, 2025

Welcome to Kerolos LLC. We are a professional independent publishing house and premium imprint headquartered in New Mexico, USA. Our operational objective is to champion intellectual freedom and objective analysis by providing discerning readers, academic institutions, and independent bookstores globally with meticulously researched analytical non-fiction, deep historical inquiry, and paradigm-shifting literary fiction.

This Comprehensive Terms of Service (“Terms,” “Agreement,” or “ToS”) is a legally binding contract forged between you (“User,” “Reader,” “Customer,” or “Institution”) and Kerolos LLC (“we,” “us,” “our,” or the “Press”). This Agreement governs your access to and use of our digital storefront (https://books.kerolos.work), your procurement of our digital and physical intellectual property, and your interaction with our global trade distribution networks.

By accessing our website, browsing our catalog, or executing a commercial transaction, you explicitly acknowledge that you have read, comprehended, and agreed to be unequivocally bound by these Terms. If you do not agree with the stringent operational and legal frameworks outlined herein, you are strictly prohibited from utilizing our platform or purchasing our publications.

SECTION 1: OUR STRATEGIC PUBLISHING PARTNERS AND SUPPLY CHAIN ARCHITECTURE

To bypass legacy commercial gatekeepers while maintaining an uncompromising standard of bibliographic integrity, Kerolos LLC does not operate in isolation. We have architected a highly resilient, globally integrated publishing supply chain. To provide absolute transparency to our payment processors, retail partners, and readership, we hereby outline the legitimate, strategic partnerships and institutional integrations that facilitate our global trade distribution.

By transacting with Kerolos LLC, you acknowledge that your order is supported, manufactured, or distributed in conjunction with the following industry-leading entities:

1.1. The Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA)
Kerolos LLC is a proud, active member of the IBPA. We do not operate as casual self-publishers; rather, we function as a premium independent imprint. Our alignment with the IBPA means that every manuscript acquired, edited, and formatted by our press is subjected to the IBPA’s rigorous Industry Standards Checklist for Professional Publishers. This strategic alignment ensures that our editorial excellence, cover design, and interior typography directly rival, and often exceed, the quality produced by the traditional “Big Five” publishing conglomerates.

1.2. Bowker: The Official ISBN Agency and Metadata Authority
To ensure absolute bibliographic sovereignty and secure our intellectual property, Kerolos LLC is registered as the exclusive Publisher of Record. We do not utilize free or assigned identifying numbers that dilute corporate ownership. We have established a direct, corporate partnership with Bowker, the official International Standard Book Number (ISBN) agency for the United States. Through Bowker, we purchase proprietary ISBN blocks and establish comprehensive metadata for every title. This guarantees that our historical inquiries and literary works are professionally indexed, correctly categorized, and globally searchable in the definitive Books In Print® database utilized by libraries and retailers worldwide.

1.3. IngramSpark: Global Wholesale and Trade Distribution
To make our analytical non-fiction accessible to institutional buyers, Kerolos LLC is deeply integrated with IngramSpark, a division of the Ingram Content Group. Ingram is the world’s largest and most formidable wholesale distributor of physical books. Our partnership with IngramSpark empowers Kerolos LLC with a state-of-the-art print-on-demand (POD) infrastructure and instantly makes our entire catalog available for wholesale acquisition by over 40,000 independent bookstores, major retail chains, universities, and library systems across the globe.

1.4. Bookvault: Agile European and Premium POD Logistics
In addition to IngramSpark, we strategically partner with Bookvault to augment our physical supply chain, particularly within the United Kingdom and the European Union. Bookvault serves as a premier POD manufacturing partner that specializes in rapid, high-agility printing and premium binding finishes. This integration ensures that when a reader in Europe orders a Kerolos LLC publication, the book is manufactured locally with absolute precision, thereby minimizing international freight delays and heavily reducing our corporate carbon footprint.

1.5. Amazon KDP and Extended Distribution Networks
While we maintain our independent digital storefront to serve our readers directly, we recognize the infrastructural dominance of global e-commerce. Kerolos LLC utilizes Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and its extended distribution network as a strategic retail partner. This partnership ensures that our e-books are flawlessly formatted and distributed to Kindle devices worldwide, and that our physical paperbacks and hardcovers are seamlessly available to Amazon’s massive international customer base, complete with optimized supply-chain routing.

These five foundational partnerships form the bedrock of Kerolos LLC. They are the mechanisms through which we guarantee that every transaction processed on our digital storefront results in the delivery of premium, industry-standard intellectual property.

SECTION 2: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOVEREIGNTY

The core asset of Kerolos LLC is the intellectual depth, rigorous research, and creative brilliance encapsulated within our publications. We enforce our intellectual property rights with absolute legal rigor.

2.1. Copyright and Ownership
All content present on https://books.kerolos.work—including but not limited to book manuscripts, excerpts, objective analysis, essays, site typography, corporate logos, and custom cover designs—is the exclusive property of Kerolos LLC or our respective authors and artists. This content is fiercely protected by United States copyright law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and international intellectual property treaties.

2.2. Prohibited Uses of Intellectual Property
When you purchase a physical book or a digital e-book from Kerolos LLC, you are purchasing a license to read and consume the text for your personal, intellectual enrichment. You are not purchasing the copyright.
You are strictly and legally prohibited from:

Reproducing, duplicating, or copying any portion of our meticulously researched texts without express, written permission from Kerolos LLC.
Distributing our digital e-book files (EPUB, PDF, or otherwise) on torrent sites, file-sharing networks, or any unauthorized digital platform.
Training artificial intelligence (AI) models, large language models (LLMs), or machine learning algorithms utilizing our copyrighted manuscripts and historical studies.
Engaging in unauthorized global trade distribution (i.e., attempting to resell our digital files or acting as an unauthorized wholesale broker for our physical books).

2.3. Anti-Piracy and Legal Recourse
Kerolos LLC actively monitors global digital networks for intellectual property theft. Any individual or entity found to be illegally distributing our analytical non-fiction or literary fiction will face immediate legal action, including DMCA takedown notices, civil litigation for maximum statutory damages, and the reporting of the individual to federal cybercrime authorities.

SECTION 3: COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS, PRICING, AND POD LOGISTICS

Kerolos LLC has structured a transparent, highly efficient commercial framework to facilitate the seamless acquisition of our catalog by a global readership.

3.1. Pricing and Currency
All prices displayed on our digital storefront are denominated in United States Dollars (USD) unless dynamically converted by your local banking institution or our payment gateway. We reserve the right to modify the retail price of our publications at any time without prior notice, reflecting the fluctuating costs of raw printing materials (paper, ink, binding glue) across our global trade distribution networks. However, once an order is placed and authorized, the price is locked and will not be retroactively altered.

3.2. Print-on-Demand Acknowledgment
By executing a transaction for a physical hardcover or paperback, you acknowledge that Kerolos LLC operates on a zero-waste, print-on-demand model. You are legally consenting to the 3 to 5 business day manufacturing window required to physically print and bind your book prior to shipment. You acknowledge that because the book is custom-manufactured specifically for you, the order cannot be canceled after the initial 24-hour window, as explicitly detailed in our Refund and Cancellation Policy.

3.3. Customs, Duties, and Import Taxes (DDU)
As an international merchant, Kerolos LLC ships physical intellectual property globally. For orders crossing sovereign borders (outside of domestic printing hubs), we ship Delivered Duty Unpaid (DDU). By agreeing to these Terms, you accept sole legal and financial responsibility for any import duties, Value-Added Tax (VAT), Goods and Services Tax (GST), or customs clearance fees levied by your government. Kerolos LLC will not manipulate customs declarations to reflect lower values, as this constitutes international trade fraud.

SECTION 4: PLATFORM USAGE AND USER CONDUCT

Kerolos LLC provides access to our digital storefront to facilitate intellectual exploration and commercial transactions. We demand that users interact with our digital infrastructure responsibly.

4.1. Acceptable Use
You agree to use https://books.kerolos.work exclusively for lawful purposes. You are permitted to browse our catalog, read our objective analysis, process transactions, and communicate with our support division.

4.2. Prohibited Digital Conduct
You are strictly prohibited from compromising the security or operational efficiency of our digital infrastructure. This includes, but is not limited to:

Deploying automated scripts, spiders, web scrapers, or bots to harvest bibliographic metadata, pricing structures, or customer data from our servers.
Attempting to breach our secure payment gateways, bypass our SSL encryption, or gain unauthorized access to our administrative dashboards.
Initiating Denial of Service (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against our hosting infrastructure.
Submitting fraudulent chargebacks, using stolen credit card credentials, or providing false identities during the checkout process.

Any violation of these digital conduct parameters will result in an immediate, permanent ban from our platform and the immediate reporting of your IP address and localized data to our payment processors and relevant cybercrime jurisdictions.

SECTION 5: DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND ACADEMIC LIABILITY

The foundational premise of Kerolos LLC is the pursuit of intellectual depth, meticulous research, and objective analysis. However, historical inquiry and analytical non-fiction are inherently evolving academic disciplines.

5.1. No Warranties on Historical Absolutism
While our authors and editors adhere to the most rigorous standards of fact-checking and primary source citation, Kerolos LLC provides all publications on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis. We make no representations or warranties, express or implied, that the historical studies, cultural analyses, or paradigm-shifting arguments presented within our books represent infallible, absolute, or incontrovertible truth. The interpretation of history is subject to ongoing academic debate, and new evidence continually emerges.

5.2. Disclaimer of Professional Advice
The intellectual property distributed by Kerolos LLC—whether historical, sociological, or philosophical—is intended strictly for educational, intellectual, and entertainment purposes. It does not constitute, and should never be interpreted as, professional legal, financial, medical, or psychological advice. Kerolos LLC, our executives, and our authors disclaim all liability for any actions taken by a reader based upon the interpretations of the texts we publish.

5.3. Platform Warranties
While we utilize enterprise-grade hosting and security, we do not warrant that our digital storefront will be completely uninterrupted, entirely error-free, or perpetually free from malicious third-party code or viruses. Your use of our website is executed entirely at your own risk.

SECTION 6: LIMITATION OF LIABILITY AND INDEMNIFICATION

This section constitutes a critical allocation of risk between you and Kerolos LLC. Please read it with absolute scrutiny.

6.1. Cap on Financial Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable international and United States law, under no circumstances shall Kerolos LLC, its founder, directors, employees, editorial contractors, or global trade distribution partners (including IngramSpark, Bookvault, and Amazon) be held liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive, or special damages arising out of your use of our website or your consumption of our literature.

This includes, but is not limited to, damages for loss of profits, loss of data, loss of intellectual property, or emotional distress, regardless of whether such claims are based on warranty, contract, tort (including negligence), or any other legal theory.

In any event, the total aggregate liability of Kerolos LLC for any claims arising under these Terms of Service shall be strictly limited to the exact gross amount you paid to Kerolos LLC for the specific book or service giving rise to the claim in the preceding twelve (12) months.

6.2. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Kerolos LLC, its subsidiaries, authors, manufacturing partners, and payment processors from and against any and all legally recognized claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses, or fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to your violation of these Terms of Service, your unauthorized distribution of our copyrighted material, or your fraudulent use of our digital storefront.

SECTION 7: FORCE MAJEURE (GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN EXEMPTIONS)

As an independent press heavily reliant upon global trade distribution networks, international freight logistics, and complex print-on-demand manufacturing, Kerolos LLC is subject to geopolitical and environmental realities.

Kerolos LLC shall not be held liable, nor deemed to be in breach of this Agreement, for any failure or delay in fulfilling our obligations (including the manufacturing and shipping of physical books) when such failure is caused by circumstances beyond our reasonable control. Such “Force Majeure” events include, but are not limited to:

Acts of God (e.g., severe earthquakes, hurricanes, global pandemics).
Geopolitical instability, acts of war, terrorism, or international trade embargoes.
Catastrophic failures of international freight networks or strikes by postal unions.
Systemic outages of our primary manufacturing partners (e.g., a critical infrastructure failure at an IngramSpark or Bookvault facility).
Widespread disruptions of global internet backbones or secure payment gateways.

In the event of a Force Majeure, Kerolos LLC will securely queue all pending orders and resume operations and fulfillment with maximum agility the moment the disruption is resolved.

SECTION 8: GOVERNING LAW, JURISDICTION, AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION

These Terms of Service, and any separate agreements whereby we provide you with intellectual property, shall be governed by, and objectively construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New Mexico, United States of America, entirely without regard to its conflict of law provisions or principles.

8.1. Mandatory Good-Faith Negotiation
In the event of any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to this Agreement, or the breach thereof, the parties agree to first attempt to resolve the dispute through good-faith, formal negotiation. You must submit your grievance in writing to support@kerolos.work, and Kerolos LLC will have sixty (60) days to offer a resolution.

8.2. Exclusive Jurisdiction
If the dispute cannot be resolved through negotiation, you irrevocably agree that the state and federal courts located within the State of New Mexico, USA, shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any such dispute or claim. You hereby waive any right to object to venue or jurisdiction in these courts.

8.3. Class Action Waiver
You agree that you may bring claims against Kerolos LLC only in your individual capacity, and absolutely not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class action, collective action, or representative proceeding.

SECTION 9: SEVERABILITY AND ENTIRE AGREEMENT

9.1. Severability
If any provision of these Terms of Service is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that specific provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms and shall not affect the validity and strict enforceability of any remaining provisions. The unenforceable provision will be modified to reflect the original intent of the parties to the maximum extent permitted by law.

9.2. The Entire Agreement
These Terms of Service, combined with our published Privacy Policy, Refund & Cancellation Policy, and Shipping Policy, constitute the entire, exhaustive, and legally binding agreement between you and Kerolos LLC regarding your use of our digital storefront and the procurement of our publications. This Agreement supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications, representations, or proposals, whether electronic, oral, or written.

9.3. Right to Amend
Kerolos LLC reserves the sovereign right, at our sole discretion, to update, modify, or replace any part of these Terms of Service by posting updates to our website. It is your responsibility to check our website periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to our website following the posting of any changes to these Terms of Service constitutes binding acceptance of those changes.

BUSINESS AND COMPLIANCE VERIFICATION BLOCK

To satisfy the underwriting requirements of our international payment processors, banking partners, and strategic POD distributors, Kerolos LLC maintains absolute corporate transparency. Any legal notices, formal institutional inquiries, or notices of intellectual property infringement should be directed to the corporate information below.

Legal Business Name: Kerolos LLC
State of Incorporation: New Mexico, USA (Established 2024)
Corporate Physical Address: 206 S CORONADO AVE, ESPANOLA, NM 87532, USA
Official Digital Storefront / Domain: https://books.kerolos.work
Primary Corporate Contact: support@kerolos.work
International Phone Support (US/Global): +1 (505) 373-3339

By utilizing our platform and engaging with our catalog, you acknowledge that you have read this legally binding document in its entirety, comprehended its rigorous legal parameters, and are prepared to engage with the intellectual depth and objective analysis that define Kerolos LLC.