What book licenses are available?
TailoredRead offers four types of book licenses:
- Personal License (default, price varies $2-20) - For individuals and students. Read, learn, and study with personal access to your book.
- Educational License ($49.99) - For individual educators, teachers, and coaches. Share the book with your students.
- Commercial License ($79.99) - For businesses under 200 employees. Create an ebook, modify it, and share it with customers, clients, or employees.
- Author License ($99.99) - For authors and thought leaders. Create, modify, publish, and sell the book under your own name.
Each book you create has its own individual license. When you purchase or upgrade to a special license, it applies to that specific book only.
See a full comparison of all licenses.
If you need a different license, please contact us.
Do licenses apply to one book or all books?
Each license you purchase applies only to the specific book it was purchased for. Not to any past or future books you’ve created. If you buy or upgrade to an Educational, Commercial, or Author license, that license grants special rights for that individual book only. If you want those same rights for other books in your library, you'll need to purchase the appropriate license for each book separately.
Which license should I choose if I want to share or publish the book?
- Personal use
For personal use, choose the Personal license. You cannot share your book (except for up to 5 household members) and cannot modify it.
- Using the book for studying
If you’re using the book solely for personal study — such as preparing for exams — you can purchase it under the Personal license. This license allows personal use, and you can use it as long as the book isn’t shared with others, edited, or republished.
If you’re an educator and want to share the book you create with your students, you can choose the Educational license.
- Sharing or publishing the book
Sharing the book with others is not allowed with a Personal license.
If you want to share it for free with others for educational, non-commercial purposes (e.g. students), choose the Educational license.
If you want to edit and share it for free with others for commercial purposes (e.g. ebook for customers), choose the Commercial license.
If you want to edit, resell, and publish the book for profit, choose the Author license.
Note that you do not edit the book on TailoredRead, but we provide you with a downloadable Word document that you can edit in a document editing software of your choice.
Please note that each book requires its own individual license. Licenses apply to one book and are not transferable between books.
How to choose a license for a new book?
Just start creating a book normally. In the final “Review” screen, you’ll see a dropdown enabling you to select a license for your book: