Delivery links, codes and certified sends: a protected copy to your own readers

What a delivery is

Campaigns bring you matched readers. A delivery hands a protected copy to the readers you already have: your newsletter, a street team, a friend, the people who met you at a signing. It lives under Studio › Advance copies, on the Deliver to your readers tab, beside Campaigns and Applications. Same Studio, same sidebar. Deliveries are on the Creator plan and above; on the Author plan the tab is there with one sentence and See plans, so the feature is known, never hidden.

Creating a link

New delivery link is one screen, no wizard:

1. The book: a published or coming-soon book of yours; attach the file if the book has none.
2. A name for you: readers never see it; it tells the links apart on your list.
3. How readers get it: tick Read on Booklabria (the file stays on the server; you see who started and who finished), Protected download (a signed link that lasts fifteen minutes, five downloads per copy, every EPUB watermarked) and/or Send to Kindle (we e-mail the watermarked EPUB to the reader's own Kindle address, five sends per copy). With two or more ticked, each reader picks one when they claim. The same ways as a campaign (ARC delivery and tracking).
4. Copies: how many readers may claim, up to what your plan allows on one link; the note beside the field reads Up to 25 copies on a link on your plan. A link is not a campaign: its claims never use a campaign's readers (What counts as a reader on your plan).
5. Expiry: how long the link accepts claims: 7, 30 or 90 days, or never. Claimed copies outlive the link.
6. Password (optional): the reader is asked for it before the book opens.
7. Who can claim: anyone with the link, signed-in readers only, or your followers only.
8. Your note: what readers see over the button, in your voice. Write it for readers, not for the form; the right column shows the landing exactly as a reader will see it.

The link and its QR code are the same door with the same rules. Copy link and QR sit on the row while the link is active.

The list

One row per link: the book, your name for it with the code, the ways it offers (such as read on Booklabria or protected download, each reader chooses), copies claimed as a number and a bar, the terms (expiry, password, who can claim, the last claim), the state (Active, Full, Expired, Revoked, each a filter) and the actions that state allows: Copy link while active, QR while active or full, Add copies when full, Revoke while active or full, and Who claimed on every row.

Revoking

Revoke stops new claims and nothing else: claimed copies stay readable, and the row says so. No reason is shown to readers.

Certified delivery by e-mail, from a campaign

A campaign can also send this ARC to these addresses: on the campaign's Delivery tab, you paste the e-mail addresses of readers you already know, and each receives one mail with a personal door to the book, delivered the way the campaign is set (read on Booklabria, a protected download or Send to Kindle, or the reader's choice among them). A send waits 30 days for its reader and can be withdrawn until it is taken; a copy that is taken becomes an approved application, so it counts as one reader toward what your plan allows, like any approval, and never against the campaign's open spots. It is certified in the plain sense: the Certified delivery section of the Delivery tab records each send (to whom, when, mailed or link copied, who took it, withdrawn), and Activity shows the claim as applied and approved. With e-mail switched off on the deployment, you copy each reader's link yourself.

A certified copy is a campaign copy, so it carries the campaign's terms: the reader owes a review by the campaign's date, with its requirements and its reminders, exactly like a reader you approved. That is the difference from a delivery link, whose copies owe nothing. Send a campaign copy when you want the review; send a link when you want to give the book.

The reader sees the difference too. Both copies land in their Library on the From authors shelf with a From Ana Reyes mark, and each mark carries its own second line: the certified one A review is due June 14, with the deadline under Early copies › My early copies, and the link one A gift. Nothing is owed.

What a reader sees

The reader lands on a page with your name, the cover whole, your note and one button. On an anyone link a stranger makes a free reader account on that same form (name, e-mail, password, and the link's password as a fourth field when you set one) and the book opens; a signed-in reader gets one field and Continue. A signed-in readers or followers link asks for a login first and offers the follow on the door. When the link offers more than one way, a reader who has just claimed sees Your copy is open and equal cards to pick how to read it; with one way, the page says how the copy comes. Every reader gets a receipt mail, Your copy of The Salt Road. A delivery asks for nothing: no review, no deadline, and nothing about it goes on the reader's record. A copy from an author is their side.