BloomReads

Copyright — BloomReads

Effective date: 8 September 2026
Last updated: 8 September 2026

BloomReads is a reading tracker. It shows a cover so you can recognise a book on your shelf. If you hold the rights to a cover or a description that appears in it and you want it gone, this page tells you exactly how to reach us and what we will do.

1. What the app shows, and where it comes from

The app holds no catalogue of its own. When you add a book, it asks third-party catalogues — Open Library, run by the Internet Archive; Google Books; Apple, through the iTunes Search API; and NeoDB — and shows whichever answers first. From them it takes the title, author, year, page count and ISBN, a publisher's description where one is offered, and a cover image.

Titles, authors and ISBNs are facts about a book, and we treat them as such. A cover is not. Cover art belongs to the publisher or to the artist who made it, and we make no claim to it. It appears in BloomReads for one reason: so that a reader can tell one book from another on their own shelf.

Section 9 of the Terms of Use says the same thing, and names the catalogues. This page is the procedure that goes with it.

2. What the app does not do

Some of what a copyright complaint usually concerns is simply absent here, and it is worth being plain about it:

• It is not an e-reader. It contains no book text, no excerpt, no sample and no page scan, and it does not link to any.
• We do not sell, license or redistribute cover images. They are not a product, they are not offered for download, and no part of the subscription price is charged for them.
• We run no image server. A cover is requested by the reader's own phone, from the catalogue, and kept on that phone so their shelf still draws when they are offline. We hold no library of covers on any server of ours.
• A cover is shown small, alongside the title and author, as one book among the reader's own — never as artwork in its own right, and never as ours.
• Readers can photograph their own copy and replace the catalogue image entirely, and many do.

3. Asking us to remove something

If you own the rights to a cover, a description or anything else the app shows, and you would rather it were not shown, write to abeto.studio@gmail.com. Put Copyright notice in the subject line so it is not missed.

To let us act quickly, tell us:

1. Your name, and the rights holder you act for if it is not you.
2. The work — the title, author and ISBN of the book whose cover or description is at issue. The ISBN is what identifies it inside the app, so with it we can act the same day; without it we may have to come back to you.
3. Where you saw it: in the app, on this site, or in a screenshot on the App Store, and a screenshot if you have one.
4. An address, and a phone number or email, where we can reach you.
5. A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the rights holder, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are the rights holder or authorised to act for them.
7. Your signature, electronic or physical.

Points 5 to 7 are the elements a formal notice takes under the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. §512. We are not asking you to be formal — a plain email naming the book will be acted on. They are listed so that a notice sent to us is complete on arrival.

4. What we do when a notice arrives

We acknowledge every notice, normally within two business days.

Where the complaint is about a cover or a description, we stop the app asking for it: the book keeps its title and author, and is drawn in type instead. That change reaches readers in the next App Store release, which usually means within a few days of the notice, Apple's review time included.

Two honest limits on that. A copy already downloaded to a reader's phone sits in their own private library, on their own device, and we have no way to reach into it; it is replaced when they next update. And because the image was never ours, taking it out of BloomReads does not take it off the catalogue that supplied it — for that, the quickest route is the catalogue itself:

• Open Library / Internet Archive — openlibrary.org, or their designated DMCA agent
• Google Books — Google's legal removal form
• Apple — through the iTunes Store content provider
• NeoDB — neodb.social

We are happy to tell you which catalogue a particular image came to us from, if that helps you get it removed at the source.

5. If we removed something of yours in error

If you believe we removed material that you had the right to have shown, write to the same address with the book, why you believe the removal was a mistake, and how to reach you. We will look again and put it back if we were wrong.

6. Material readers send us

The one place where a reader's own words reach our servers is the support chat, described in section 6 of the Privacy Policy. If something sent to us there infringes your rights, the same address and the same procedure apply, and we remove it. Readers who repeatedly send infringing material lose access to the chat.

Everything else a reader creates — their library, their notes, the photographs they take of their own books — stays on their device and is never published by us to anyone.

7. Publisher, author and catalogue names

Book titles, author names, publisher names and the names of the catalogues above appear in BloomReads only to say what a book is or where information came from. Those names and marks belong to their owners. We are not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any of them, and we do not suggest otherwise.

8. What is ours

The app itself — its code, its design, its shelves, backdrops and decorations, its written text, its icon and the name BloomReads — is ours, and is not covered by anything above.

9. Contact

Email: abeto.studio@gmail.com