The official rules of a giveaway
For readers and authorsUpdated 2 min read
Every giveaway on Booklabria carries official rules, linked from the giveaway card and the entry sheet and written from the campaign's own settings: free to enter, no purchase, one entry per account, how winners are chosen and told, what the prize is, and who the sponsor is. The author is the sponsor; Booklabria runs the entries and the draw and delivers the copies. Entering is free, no review is owed, and you can withdraw an entry before the draw.
The short answer
Where to find them
Every giveaway shows Official rules on its card, on the book's page and in the sheet you use to enter. They are written for that giveaway from its own settings, so the dates, the number of copies and the way winners are chosen are the ones the author actually set, never a generic page.
What they say, in short
- Free to enter, no purchase. Entering costs nothing and asks nothing: no review, no follow, no payment, no address beyond the e-mail on your Booklabria account.
- Who may enter. Anyone with a Booklabria account in good standing, aged 16 or over, where such giveaways are lawful. The author, and anyone acting for the author, may not enter.
- One entry per person and per account. A second account is a guidelines matter and both entries go.
- How winners are chosen. Either the first readers to enter, until the copies are gone or the end date, or a random draw on the date the author set. Nobody, the author included, picks the winners, and your odds depend on how many people enter.
- The prize. One digital copy, delivered the way the campaign delivers it: read on Booklabria, a protected download, or sent to your Kindle (or the reader's choice among the ways the campaign offers), watermarked to you. It is yours to keep after release, has no cash value and may not be shared.
- Nothing is expected back. No review is owed. If you write one, it is your honest opinion; an author may not ask for a kind one.
Who is responsible
The author is the sponsor: the copies, the number, the dates and the note are theirs. Booklabria is the platform, not the sponsor: it runs the entries and the draw as the author set them, delivers the copies and keeps the record. Questions about a giveaway go to the author through Booklabria; questions about the platform go to the help center.
Your entry and your data
Entering stores your entry with your account. The author sees the entries and the winners by their Booklabria names, and may decline an entry before the draw, but never your e-mail address unless you shared it with them yourself (Sharing your e-mail with an author). You can withdraw an entry at any time before the draw, and an entry that is not drawn leaves nothing on your record.
If something changes
If the book's release moves, a drawn giveaway keeps its draw date unless the author changes it before entries close, and every entrant is told once. Booklabria can cancel a giveaway that breaks its guidelines; entries are released and nobody wins. The rules are read together with the Terms of service and the Community guidelines.
Giveaway campaigns explains how entering, winning and running one work.
Where this lives
Related
- Giveaway campaigns: A giveaway is a campaign type with no review obligation: the author offers protected copies to readers who enter, either first come or drawn, and each winner receives the book the way the campaign delivers it. A win counts as one reader toward the author's plan, a winner owes nothing, there are no reminders, and an entry that is not drawn costs the reader nothing.
- Requesting an early copy: When an author runs an active campaign, the book page shows Request this copy and the **Early copies** page lists it under **Free early copies** with the reasons it fits you; a request carries a short note, waits for the author's decision, and can be cancelled while pending. There is no waitlist.
- Running an ARC campaign: Studio, Campaigns, New campaign walks through the book, dates and reader spots, ideal readers (genres, tropes, languages, regions, requirements), delivery (formats, files, your message) and how to launch (draft, scheduled, or now). Applications gather under Applications with each reader's match and reliability; approve or decline one by one or in batches, and every decision notifies the reader.
- Early copy reviews and your follow-through: An early copy review follows one extra rule, honesty; your follow-through counts reviews (or honest set-downs) and on-time reviews, never how kindly you rate. Set a book down from My early copies rather than going silent; ask for more time before the deadline.
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