Distributing ebooks FREE, is it legal in wordpress?
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Currently i am distributing some ebooks that i permitted from author for promotional use only.
like this – http://sfionlineblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/html5-for-publishers/
My ques – Is it legal in wordpress?? I mean, can i do it?? Is it violating any terms & conditions of wordpress??
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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http://en.wordpress.com/tos/ and especially
http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/If you are the author of the ebooks, then there is no problem.
However, you can not use your site for affiliated advertising or for the purpose of directing traffic to 3rd party sites .
Sites that occasionally review and link to a book on Amazon or elsewhere is OK, but it cannot be the only focus of the site.
Regardless, since this is a policy question, I will tag this for Staff comment.
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The last “free” e-books “permission from the author” were just marketing things – affiliate links in them and such – blogs were suspended – so as noted above – I would exercise extreme caution – there is a reason they are giving you the “free” books so they get the advertising or sell something
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Hi there,
JenT is correct. While you can sell your work on your blog, no blogger initiated advertising, retailing, or reselling of work created or services provided by other people is allowed on WordPress.com.
As long as your blog is in compliance with these terms of service, then it is fine.
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