Frequently asked.

You upload a PDF, a set of images or HTML pages you wrote yourself, and get a flipbook — a book that turns like a book — hosted on its own page. You can share that page, embed it in a site you already have, or put a price on it.

Three things. A PDF. Images as JPEG, PNG or WebP, which become pages in the order you arrange them. Or HTML pages you author yourself, one .html file per page — a book of real text and your own layout, with a hosted YouTube, Vimeo or Google Drive video where you want one; each page is checked at upload and told plainly if something in it would not work inside a book. The HTML kind is on the paid plans, Pro and above, and is being opened to accounts in stages.

No. The Free plan runs the whole flow — upload, publish, share, embed and sell — with 1 GB of space and up to 100 pages in a book. Nothing is a trial that expires.

Minutes for most books. A long one with heavy scans takes longer, because every page is rendered rather than embedded as a PDF. The dashboard shows progress and tells you when it is ready.

Up to 100 on Free, 400 on Pro, and 900 on Pro+ and MAX. The cap is per book, not per account — how many books you make is bounded by space instead.

Yes. You can replace individual pages or re-upload the whole book without changing its address, so a link you have already shared keeps working and nobody has to be told about a new one.

Yes, and it is one of three answers to “who can read this book”: everyone for free, only people who buy it, or only you. Either of the last two stores the book's files separately from public ones, and neither is readable by a link alone. A book you sell may or may not be listed in the Gallery; listing decides where the book appears, but never who may read it.

Yes, from a set of templates you can type your own words into. The cover designer is available from Pro upwards; every plan can still upload its own cover image.

The old one stays where it is, and readers who own it keep it. Anyone about to buy the older edition is told a newer one exists, and anyone who already owns one is shown what upgrading would cost them.

In Your books, open the book's Embed menu and copy a ready code, or open its design panel to choose the look, the colour behind the book, or a cover, button or link that opens it in a window. Paste the code where you want the book; any site builder that accepts an iframe takes it.

No. Embedding is on every plan, including Free, and there is no cap on how many sites a book is embedded in.

Yes, on every plan. In the Embed menu's design panel, choose one colour or a gradient of two for the background behind the book. On a light background the page arrows, the thumbnail strip and the contents get a dark ground of their own so they stay easy to see, and white pages get a fine edge.

A public shelf of books their creators chose to list. Submitting is optional and reviewed before it appears; a book that is not in the Gallery is still readable by anyone with its link, unless it is private.

Not today. A book has a MotusPage address and an embed; the embed is how it appears on your domain. If you need the address itself to be yours, tell us — it is a decision, not a limitation nobody has thought about.

Yes, on any plan including Free. You set a price, the reader pays on the payment provider's own secure page, and the book unlocks in their library. Selling is not held back for a paid plan.

You keep 80% of what the buyer actually paid — not 80% of the list price, and not 80% of what is left after somebody else's fee. The card processing fee comes out of our 20%, not your 80%, whatever the buyer pays with. If a discount code brings the price down, the split follows the real figure, so a commission is never charged on a price nobody paid.

Your share is recorded the moment a sale completes and becomes payable 5 days later, once the refund window has passed. Payouts then run every Wednesday, as a bank transfer to the account on your profile.

Yes, a small one: 5 000 ֏. Below that the balance waits for the following Wednesday, because sending money costs something and a transfer worth less than its own cost helps nobody. Two things override it: you are paid after 12 months whatever the balance, and again when you close your account — nothing sits with us indefinitely. There is no fee for a transfer to an Armenian bank account. What you do need is your bank details filled in under Profile; until then earnings simply accrue.

A refund is only possible while the money is still with us — inside the 5-day window. It comes off your pending balance. Once the transfer has gone, the sale is final and nothing is ever taken back from you.

Write to us and say which book and what went wrong. For 5 days after payment the money is still with us and we can return it — the full amount, back to the card that paid. There is no button, because a person reads every request. After that the money has gone to the creator.

No. A book somebody has bought cannot be hidden or removed — the control refuses. Their access has no path to being revoked except a refund they asked for.

Prices are set in Armenian drams, and a foreign card is charged in drams — that is what the law here requires, whoever wrote the book. Beside each price we show an approximate figure in US dollars, so a price is readable from anywhere; it comes from our own bank's live rate and is refreshed through the day. It is only ever a guide, never the amount charged. Expect your statement to be a little HIGHER than it: your own bank does the conversion at its rate plus a markup of its own, usually a percent or two. We add nothing to that and receive nothing from it. If the rate cannot be reached the dollar figure simply is not shown, and the dram price is unaffected.

It happens when an account is closed, an IBAN has a typo, or the name does not match the bank's record. The money is still yours — it stays on your balance, and we tell you what the bank said. Correct your details under Profile and saving them queues it for the next payout automatically.

Asking changes nothing on its own: your books keep selling and your plan keeps working until we actually close the account, so a term you have already paid for is not cut short — and you can name the day, normally the end of that term. When we close it, your remaining balance is paid on the next Wednesday whatever it comes to, with no minimum — apart from earnings less than 5 days old, which wait one more run because a refund is still possible until then. Anyone who already bought one of your books keeps it: a sale is never undone.

Every page of every book is fingerprinted three ways — the file, its layout, and the words on it, read by OCR where a page is a picture. Every night each book is compared with every other creator's, and a match is flagged for review. A photographed copy uploaded here is recognised the same way: the layout changes, the words do not.

Space, bigger books, more books per day, books built from your own HTML pages, the creator tools, and your analytics — how much they show and how far back they go. They do not buy the right to sell, to embed, or to be in the Gallery — those are on every plan.

1 GB on Free, 10 on Pro, 30 on Pro+ and 70 on MAX. Space is what bounds how many books you keep; there is no cap on the number itself.

Yes — 5 a day on Free, up to 80 on MAX. It bounds how much conversion work one account can queue at once, and almost nobody meets it.

Nothing. Books you have already published are not hidden, deleted or touched. An over-quota account is simply blocked from creating more until it is back inside its space.

On Pro: how many times each book was opened, over time and in total, with the previous period beside it and by calendar quarter, and a card for each book. Pro+ adds where readers came from — a direct link, the Gallery, your own pages, an embed of yours or another site — which sites your books are embedded on, links of your own that you name and hand out, each with its reads, and how often your covers were shown in the Gallery and on those sites and then opened. MAX adds how far into a book sessions got and how many finished, which pages were on screen and for how long, the weekday and hour readers turn up, devices, and countries and cities on a map, reading time, prints, and how many signed-in readers come back. A read is one person opening a book; a book embedded on another site counts once at least half of it has been on the visitor's screen for a second (since 28 September 2026 — before that, when it loaded). Reopening it in the same visit is not counted again, and robots — search engines, link previews — are not counted.

Reads are counted for every book from the day it is published, whatever your plan; the dashboard that shows them opens on Pro. Reads are kept day by day for as long as your plan keeps them: 6 months on Pro, 12 on Pro+, 24 on MAX (reads from before 26 August 2026 were kept only month by month). Beyond that they are deleted, not hidden, and the all-time figure counts what is still kept. If you downgrade, the months beyond the new plan's window are removed 30 days later; if you upgrade, everything already kept appears at once.

Each quarter is a calendar quarter (January to March, April to June, July to September, October to December) and does not change with the period you pick above it. A finished quarter is compared with the whole quarter before it and, on MAX, with the same quarter a year earlier. The quarter still running is counted up to yesterday, because today is not over, and compared with the same number of days of the earlier quarter; where those days were kept only as a month (before 26 August 2026), it is compared by reads per day instead, and the card says which. Reads also rise and fall by themselves: at about 100 reads a quarter, a difference of 20 happens with no real change behind it. So when a difference is no larger than that, the badge is grey and says, for example, «+1%, not significant» — the figure moved, but not enough to call it a change. It turns green or red only when the change is larger than chance would make it.

Each card shows seven qualities of one book over the period you picked: opening pull (the share of visits that go past the first 10% of the book), attention (seconds on a page actually read), to the end (the share of visits that reach the last page), return (signed-in readers who came back on a later day), rating (readers' stars), reads (per 30 days) and spread (the share of reads from outside the book's main country). The real figure is written at every corner. Shares are drawn at their own size, the rating on the 1-to-5-star scale, and seconds and reads by a tenfold rule: every tenfold step adds the same length. The dashed line is the median of your other books — the middle value, this book left out. The dotted line is the median of other creators' books; it appears once there are at least 30 such books from 5 creators, and it adjusts itself as books are added to the site. Both lines count only books whose quality is scored. A quality is scored once its 95% error is under 10 points — 35 to 95 visits for a share, depending on the share; about 20 to 30 reviews for the rating; 100 visits for reading time. Below that the figure is written with «too little data» and not drawn, because so few cases say little. When all seven are scored the card is a polygon; while any is not, it is drawn as petals, and one line under it says what is missing. Five of the seven are recorded only for books on MAX, so on other plans those petals are locked.

When your book is read inside another site — a blog, a school's page, a shop — the analytics page lists that site by its name, for example blog.example.am, with the reads it brought. Only the site's name is kept: not the address of the page, not what else is on it, and nothing about the reader. The name comes from the reader's browser; when a site withholds it, the read is still counted as embedded but without a name, so the list can add up to less than «Embedded». Previews on MotusPage itself are not listed. Up to 50 sites a book a month are kept, for as long as your plan keeps the rest of your analytics. The list is on Pro+ and above, beside the sources.

On the analytics page you can make a link to one of your books and give it a name — «Newsletter, October», «Poster in the library». It is the book's address with a short code at the end (?l=…). A read that arrives by that address counts for the link, and in your totals as any read does. Only the code is recorded, nothing about the reader. A link stays until you remove it, and its reads go with it. A read inside an embed does not count for a link. Up to 200 links, on Pro+ and above.

A cover counts as shown when at least half of it has been on a reader's screen for a second — in the Gallery, or on a site where the book is embedded — once per browser visit. «Opened the book's page» is the book's page opened from the Gallery, «Started reading» the reads that came from the Gallery, and «Turned a page» a page turned inside an embed. For an embedded book, being shown is also the moment its read counts. Page by page (MAX) is measured inside the book while the reader's tab is visible: every two seconds go to the pages on screen, the two pages of a spread sharing them, and each page carries the book's own number. None of these keeps anything about the reader — only counts per book.

On the Pro+, MAX and Enterprise plans you can switch it on on the analytics page, beside “Download”; it is off until you do. Every Monday at 09:00 your time you then receive by email last week's reads (Monday to Sunday), how they compare with the week before, the week's sharp rises, and a one-page PDF summary. Your time is the time zone in your profile, or, if you have not set one, that of the browser you switched the letter on in. A week without a single read sends nothing. Devices, countries, reading time and the other details are kept by month, not by day, so they are not in the letter — they are on the analytics page. Switch it off in the same place, or with the “Turn off” link in the letter; if you do so on a Monday before 09:00, that week's letter does not come. The days are counted as on the analytics page.

On the Pro+, MAX and Enterprise plans, when one of your books is read far more than usual in a single day, a notice appears in the site's bell. A day counts as a sharp rise when the book was read at least 100 times, at least 3 times its usual, and the difference is not chance. The usual is the book's daily average over the last 4 weeks, so a book is watched from its 29th day. One book gets at most one notice in 7 days. The notice comes after the day has ended, and says where more than half of the reads came from when one place brought them. If the weekly letter is on, the week's sharp rises are listed there as well.

Your readers — not in the way that word usually means. Inside a book no analytics vendor of ours is involved, no cookie is set for measurement, the address of a reader's connection is neither read nor kept by the application, and no referrer is stored. What is kept is counts — reads, on Pro+ how often a cover was shown and opened, the reads by your own links and the sites your books are embedded on (the site's name only, never the page), and on MAX how far into a book sessions got, which pages were on screen and for how long, the device class, the country and the city and the reader's local hour, each bucketed before it is written down — a city is shown only once a book was read there at least ten times in a month. On Pro+ and above you may point your books at a Google Analytics property of your own, and then Google does see your readers — only because you set it up, only with the reader’s agreement, and the figures are yours, not ours.

On MAX, roughly — and never one reader at a time. When a book is opened, our hosting provider works out the city from the connection, as it does the country; the application neither reads nor keeps the address itself, and the city is counted in a separate request that never asks who is reading. It is approximate — often the city of the reader’s internet provider — and is kept only as a monthly count per book. A city is shown only once a book was read there at least ten times in a month; anything under that stays in its country’s total as “other places”, so a count can never point at one person. When the connection gives only the country — some Armenian providers never say the city — the read is shown as “city not determined” rather than guessed. A reader can switch it off for their browser in the cookie settings or in clause 11.4 of the privacy notice, and a browser that sends Global Privacy Control is never counted.

Yes, with Google Analytics, and only if you agree when you are asked. It runs on MotusPage's own pages — the homepage, the plans, this FAQ — and never inside a book, its checkout or an embedded viewer, so a creator's readers are counted by that creator's dashboard and by nobody else. Decline and nothing is measured and no analytics cookie is set — only your answer is remembered; the choice can be changed at any time in the cookie settings.

No. Payment happens on the provider's own page; MotusPage is told whether it succeeded and nothing else. There is no card data here to leak.

You, and anyone who has bought it. Its files live in a separate, non-public store and its pages are not readable by a link alone. Being listed in the Gallery does not change that: a paid book shows its cover, its title and its price to everyone, and its pages only to buyers. There is one exception, and it is the next answer.

Only when there is a reason on file against that book — a copy flag raised by the nightly check, or a reader's report — and only while that reason is open or was answered within the last 30 days. Nothing else opens it: being an admin is not on its own a key to anybody's work. Every such opening is written to an audit log, and a notice sits on the page for as long as it is being read. It exists so that a book flagged as a copy of somebody else's work can actually be compared with the original — both books, or the comparison is worthless.

Yes, unless the book’s creator has switched it off. A paid book is shown to you with an invisible mark tied to your account — in its page images, or, for a book made of web pages, in the text of its pages. Nothing changes on the page, and the mark is not your name or your address. It is read only when a copy of the book turns up where it should not — on another website, or uploaded here again — to learn whose copy it was made from.

Yes — write to us and it is done, along with your books and files. Sales records are kept where the law requires, without the book content attached.