Publishing Agreement (for authors)

Version 1. This agreement is between you (the author) and Global Faith Connection LLC (GFC LLC), United States of America (“GFC”), which runs GCO Books on globalcentreone.com. You accept it when you register as an author and when you publish a book.

1. Your book stays yours

• You keep the copyright of your book. GFC does not become the owner.
• You give GFC a non-exclusive, worldwide permission (licence) to publish, show, sell, distribute and print your book on GCO Books: as an e-book, soft cover and hard cover, with a free preview (summary and the free chapters you choose), and to use the cover, title, your author name and short parts of the text to promote the book.
• Non-exclusive means: you may also publish the same book elsewhere. Do not give anyone else an exclusive right that conflicts with this agreement.
• The permission lasts for as long as your book is on GCO Books and, for copies already sold or printed, afterwards.

2. What you promise

• The book is your own work, or you have the right to use every text and picture in it. No plagiarism and no copying from other books, songs, websites or people without permission.
• The book follows the Content & Copyright Policy and the law, and does not hurt anyone’s good name with false statements.
• You are responsible for the whole content of your book, whatever tools or help you used to write it.
• You are 18 years or older, or a parent or guardian has agreed to this agreement for you.
• The information you give us (name, address, payment details, tax details) is true and is yours to give. You tell us when it changes.
• If someone makes a claim against GFC because one of these promises was not true, you are responsible for it.

3. Publishing services: ISBN and permits

• For every book that GFC accepts, GFC arranges the ISBN and the registrations or permits that GFC needs as publisher, at no cost to you. You write; GFC takes care of this.
• The ISBN is registered to GFC as the publisher of that edition. It cannot be moved to another publisher or used for another book, also not when the book is taken off the shelf.
• You can follow the progress on your book page in the studio. GFC tries to be quick but cannot promise a date, because it also depends on agencies and printers. A planned date shown in the studio is an estimate.
• Where the law requires it (for example legal deposit or copies for a national library), GFC may send copies of the book to the authorities that ask for them.
• GFC decides, in good faith, which books it accepts and publishes, and may decline a book. We tell you why when we can.
• Please give us the information we ask for (for example your full name, the year the book is finished, a short description) so that the registrations are correct.

4. Checking, editing and removing

• GFC may check books before and after publishing, ask for changes, refuse a book, or take it off the bookshelf if it breaks this agreement, the policy or the law, or after a serious complaint. We tell you why when we can.
• GFC may make small technical changes to make the book readable and printable (for example the page layout, a cover that fits the printer, file format). We do not change the meaning of your text without your approval.

5. Prices

• Every book on GCO Books is paid. You choose the prices; the lowest e-book price is $1.99, and printed books must cost more than their printing cost. Prices are in USD.
• Sales tax, VAT or similar taxes that a buyer has to pay under the law of the buyer’s country are not part of the book price that is shared with you, where the law works that way.

6. Your earnings

• E-book: you receive 70% of the book price.
• Printed book: you receive 60% of the book price after the printing cost.
• Shipping costs are paid by the buyer and are not shared.
• Your share is booked when the buyer’s payment is confirmed. It becomes available after 14 days (time for cancellations). If an order is cancelled or refunded, its share is taken back.
• You see every sale and your balance in “My earnings”, and you get an email report every month.

7. Payment to you, and taxes

• When your available balance reaches $25, GFC pays you, normally once a month, by bank transfer, PayPal or Wise to the details you entered. A smaller balance is kept for the next month.
• You are responsible for correct payment details. If GFC pays to the account you gave, the payment counts as made, even if the account is not yours.
• Bank or transfer fees charged by banks or payment services, and currency exchange costs, may be deducted.
• The amounts in your reports are before tax. You are responsible for your own taxes. GFC may ask for a tax form (for example W-9 for US persons or W-8BEN for others) and must hold back tax from your earnings where the law requires it. GFC may keep payments until the form is received. The calculator on GCO Books only gives estimates.
• Fake orders, buying through stolen payments or other tricks to raise sales are not paid and can close the account.

8. Your data

• GFC uses your personal and payment details only to run GCO Books, to pay you, to keep tax and accounting records and to meet the law, as written in the Privacy Policy. Your bank account number is stored encrypted and only the payment team can see it. You can ask for your data to be exported or deleted; records that the law requires us to keep are kept.

9. Ending

• You can take your book off the bookshelf at any time. Buyers who already bought it keep their access, and copies that were already printed or ordered are still delivered.
• GFC may end this agreement if you break it. Earned money that is available is still paid, except in case of fraud or when the law forbids it.
• Sections that by their nature continue (for example your promises, earnings and taxes for sales already made, the ISBN) continue after the end.

10. Other

• GFC is not responsible for indirect losses, and its total responsibility is limited to the earnings paid to you in the last 12 months, unless the law says otherwise.
• GFC may update this agreement. The new version applies to books published or re-published after it appears; we inform authors by email or on the website.
• This agreement follows the laws of the United States of America and of the state in which the publisher is registered. Rights that the law of your country gives you cannot be taken away.
• Questions: gcosupport@globalcentreone.com