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For publishers · Charleston Circle pilot · open now · free
Every use on your terms. Every use paid.
Citations is the licensing layer between your books and the AI assistants readers already use. Connect your titles once, set the terms, and every access through Claude or ChatGPT is identified, measured and paid. Anything outside your terms is refused. Your book is never handed to the AI; with Self‑Hosted Secure Reveal™ the platform keeps no copy at all.
From upload to a paid, cited reading
A title is uploaded, priced and licensed to a library in the publisher panel. Then a reader asks about it in a chat, and the panel records the reading as it happens.
Chapter 1: Upload a title.
In the publisher panel, the publisher drops the file coastal-erosion-pacific.epub onto Titles. After processing, Coastal erosion and the Pacific islands is live with 14 chapters and 312 passages.
Chapter 2: Set your terms.
On Pricing, the title is made available to AI assistants with the publisher's price set, worldwide, with no territory excluded.
Chapter 3: Offer it to a library.
On Libraries, the publisher licenses the title to Greyhaven University Library. Licence active.
The publisher opens Insights: 211 readings this month.
Chapter 4: A reader reads it.
In the chat beside the panel, a reader asks: What does the research say about coastal erosion on Pacific islands?
The assistant answers: Research points to three responses: restoring mangroves and reefs, building sea walls, and planned retreat from the most exposed shores. Chapter 6 compares what each costs and how long it holds. Source 1.
Source 1: Coastal erosion and the Pacific islands, Sample publisher, chapter 6. Preview permitted, 3 paragraphs. Your library holds this: Greyhaven University Library, Main Library, available.
The reader opens the publisher-permitted preview: Mangrove belts and reef flats take the energy out of waves before they reach the shore. Where they are lost, the shoreline can retreat within a few seasons.
Chapter 5: You see it happen.
At the same moment, the publisher panel records the reading from Greyhaven University Library. Readings this month go from 211 to 212.
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Sell to AI assistants and the companies behind them
Readers already ask Claude or ChatGPT about the subjects you publish. Citations lets the assistant answer from your book, on your terms, and records every use.
Priced by you
You set the price, by title, collection or organisation. Discovery is free; reading is paid.
Refused outside your terms
Territory and rights are checked before any passage is revealed. Out-of-territory or unlicensed reads are refused.
Recorded, line by line
Every access is a usage event you can audit. Usage is recorded line by line, so settlements can be checked.
In the pilot
Sell to libraries
The Charleston Circle pilot is open. Use it today. Help set the terms tomorrow.
- Put new titles in front of the people who buy them.
- Let libraries preview new books before they order.
- Show them to booksellers and foreign-rights agents.
- Guests open the book and ask it questions.
Offer licences to libraries on your terms, and see which titles their readers wanted.
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Your own connector, under your name
Run a branded connector for the readers you choose, with the full reading experience and your own look.
Branded endpoint
Your own connector at your-name.citationslogic.ai, or on your own domain.
Readers you choose
A reader list with per-title and per-collection grants, and erasure on request.
Guests with a role
Invite rights buyers, booksellers, librarians, reviewers, internal staff and authors, and see what each opened.
The reading experience
Passage reader, table of contents, chapter quizzes, translation, highlights and notes, original page view and read aloud.
Theme studio
A live theme editor on the reader itself, so it looks like your house.
Live · translation
Discovery in any language, a signal for rights
Readers ask in the language they think in. Your book answers in the language it was written in, with a translation beside it, and you learn where the interest is.
It sells books and brings the backlist back to life.
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Ask in Chinese, find your English title
LiveA reader can ask in their own language and be pointed to your English edition, with the original page beside a translation. Translation is checked against your territory.
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Rights recorded per title
LiveForeign-rights grants and the rights still available are recorded against each title.
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Self-Hosted Secure Reveal™
For publishers who want the book never to leave the building. With Self‑Hosted Secure Reveal™, the reading service runs on your own infrastructure: the platform finds, licenses and records each passage, and your server serves the text.
Your files and all processing stay on your own server. Passages are served from it on demand, under your terms, and the platform keeps no copy at all.
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Insights
One place to see how each title is found and read, and what the people you invited opened.
How a title is found
Searches, previews and readings over time, title by title, with the territories they came from.
Who opened what
For the guests you invite yourself: rights buyers, booksellers, librarians, reviewers, authors. Which titles they opened, and when.
A weekly note, and alerts
A short weekly email per title, and an alert when something changes that you would want to know about.
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Getting started
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Sign in to your panel
Your publisher panel is where titles, terms, libraries and insights live.
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Upload EPUB or PDF
EPUB is preferred.
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Processing runs automatically
Titles appear with their chapters and passages, ready for terms.
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Set terms and prices
By title, collection or organisation, with territory and rights.
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Switch on
Make titles available to assistants, invite your own readers and, in the pilot, offer them to libraries.
Questions publishers ask
Does the AI train on my books?
Not through us. Passages are served under your licence, one at a time, and we hand nothing over for training. Your book is never handed to the AI; with Self‑Hosted Secure Reveal™ the platform keeps no copy at all.
What does it cost?
Joining the Charleston Circle pilot is free. You set the prices that readers and AI companies pay for your titles.
Can I switch a title off?
Yes, instantly, title by title.
What about my existing library and e-book vendors?
Nothing changes there. Citations points readers to the copies libraries already hold and the e-resources they already subscribe to.
Which assistants?
Claude or ChatGPT, and any assistant that supports connectors (MCP).
Who sees reader data?
Nobody outside your own connector. Usage is reported per title and per library, with no names and no query text; for guests you invite yourself, you see what each opened.
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