{"id":232,"date":"2018-12-13T19:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T19:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=232"},"modified":"2019-01-24T20:32:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T20:32:49","slug":"can-my-bookstore-or-other-entity-charge-for-an-open-textbook-or-other-oer","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/chapter\/can-my-bookstore-or-other-entity-charge-for-an-open-textbook-or-other-oer\/","title":{"raw":"May an open textbook be sold?","rendered":"May an open textbook be sold?"},"content":{"raw":"Yes, an open textbook may be sold. There are no restrictions on charging for an open textbook or other OER unless <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NC (NonCommercial)<\/a> is part of its licence. And even then, it is permissible and standard practice to charge for cost recovery (printed costs of the book + basic overhead).\r\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\" style=\"text-align: center;\">For more information, see <a href=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/back-matter\/appendix-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Licences and Tools<\/a> in the <em>Self-Publishing Guide<\/em>.<\/div>\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<p>Yes, an open textbook may be sold. There are no restrictions on charging for an open textbook or other OER unless <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NC (NonCommercial)<\/a> is part of its licence. And even then, it is permissible and standard practice to charge for cost recovery (printed costs of the book + basic overhead).<\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\" style=\"text-align: center;\">For more information, see <a href=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/back-matter\/appendix-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Licences and Tools<\/a> in the <em>Self-Publishing Guide<\/em>.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"Selling an open textbook","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-232","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":675,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/232","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":5,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/232\/revisions\/720"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/675"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/232\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}