{"id":188,"date":"2018-12-13T18:14:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T18:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=188"},"modified":"2019-01-28T22:55:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T22:55:32","slug":"am-i-allowed-to-charge-for-printed-copies-of-an-open-textbook-if-it-includes-non-commercial-nc-as-part-of-the-license-such-as-cc-by-nc","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/chapter\/am-i-allowed-to-charge-for-printed-copies-of-an-open-textbook-if-it-includes-non-commercial-nc-as-part-of-the-license-such-as-cc-by-nc\/","title":{"raw":"May a fee be charged for a book with a NC (NonCommercial) licence?","rendered":"May a fee be charged for a book with a NC (NonCommercial) licence?"},"content":{"raw":"It's acceptable to charge for cost recovery (which could include cost of printing + basic overhead), but bookstores cannot make a profit on the sale of an NC-licensed work.\u00a0Think of it like this: What does the bookstore need to charge to break even\u2014and\u00a0not make a profit\u2014when it sells a printed copy of the NC-licensed textbook? Those charges would be acceptable.\r\n\r\nCost recovery (printing cost of the book + basic overhead) is widely accepted as allowable with NC-licensed content.","rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s acceptable to charge for cost recovery (which could include cost of printing + basic overhead), but bookstores cannot make a profit on the sale of an NC-licensed work.\u00a0Think of it like this: What does the bookstore need to charge to break even\u2014and\u00a0not make a profit\u2014when it sells a printed copy of the NC-licensed textbook? Those charges would be acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Cost recovery (printing cost of the book + basic overhead) is widely accepted as allowable with NC-licensed content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"menu_order":6,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"Charge for NC","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-188","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/188\/revisions\/778"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/188\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}