Which license should I choose?

Choose based on how you plan to use the book:

• If you only want to read and study it yourself → Personal
• If you want to share it with students for free → Educational
• If you want to edit it and share it publicly for free → Commercial
• If you want to edit it and sell it or publish it → Author

Use-case examples

• Personal: self-study, a gift for one person in your household, a reference you keep on your own devices.
• Educational: a handout for your class or students, a book club selection, or non-commercial course material shared for free. Editing is not included.
• Commercial: a lead magnet on LinkedIn or your website, a free resource shared with coaching clients, or a branded handbook you want to tailor before sharing. You can edit the Word (.docx) file and share the result for free.
• Author: publishing on Amazon KDP, Gumroad, or your own site; selling the book as a paid product; or anything that involves charging money. Includes full rights to edit and put your name on the book.

Two things worth keeping in mind:

• Editing is only included with Commercial or Author. It happens in Word or Google Docs after you download the .docx file.
• Selling or publishing for profit needs the Author license.

Each license applies to the single book you bought it for. For more, see How do book licenses work?.