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These Terms govern your use of AuthorAZ.com, the AuthorAZ mobile app, email updates, contact forms, and The Publishing Manual 2026.

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The AuthorAZ mobile app is a private, offline vault for organizing book metadata, covers, buy links, quotes, manuscript snapshots, and encrypted backups.

The app is available for iPhone and iPad on the App Store and for Android phones and tablets on Google Play.

You are responsible for keeping your device secure, exporting backups when needed, storing backup passwords safely, and maintaining your own copies of original manuscripts and files.

The Publishing Manual 2026 is a publishing resource for authors. It is published free and in full as an online course on this site, and is also available as a paperback.

There is no digital purchase. The full text is free to read here without an account, and a free PDF edition is delivered by email through MailerLite. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in those emails.

Print copies are fulfilled by Lulu or another print provider. Print returns are handled under that provider's policy.

The online course is updated over time. A printed copy is a snapshot of the text at the date it was printed and does not update.

You may use AuthorAZ products for your own author business, publishing operations, personal reference, and internal planning.

You may use app-generated exports, quote cards, metadata sheets, backups, and other outputs that are based on your own content, subject to any rights you hold in that content.

You may link to public AuthorAZ.com pages and quote short excerpts with attribution where legally permitted.

Do not resell, redistribute, upload, or publicly share The Publishing Manual 2026 or substantial portions of AuthorAZ paid content.

Do not copy, clone, scrape, or republish AuthorAZ website content, app designs, images, brand assets, or product materials as your own.

Do not attempt to interfere with the website, abuse contact or newsletter forms, bypass purchase systems, or use AuthorAZ products unlawfully.

AuthorAZ owns or licenses the website content, brand assets, product designs, app interface, documentation, illustrations, and The Publishing Manual 2026.

You retain rights to your own book data, manuscripts, covers, quotes, metadata, and files that you store in or export from the app.

Your purchase or app access gives you a limited, personal, non-transferable right to use the applicable product. It does not transfer ownership of AuthorAZ intellectual property.

AuthorAZ provides tools, templates, organization, and educational resources. We do not guarantee sales, rankings, reviews, platform approval, advertising results, or publishing outcomes.

AuthorAZ content is not legal, tax, accounting, financial, or professional publishing representation. You are responsible for your own decisions and for consulting qualified professionals when needed.

We may update, change, pause, or discontinue features, content, pricing, providers, or pages when needed.

We may update these Terms by posting a revised version with a new last-updated date. Continued use after changes means you accept the updated Terms.

AuthorAZ products and services are provided as is and as available to the fullest extent permitted by law.

We are not responsible for lost local app data, lost backup passwords, third-party platform changes, third-party checkout or fulfillment issues, or results from using publishing information.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, AuthorAZ will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or lost-profit damages.

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