The finished book
With 20 Minute Reads, you own your finished book and its content.
Guide: ownership
Who owns your book, publishing account, and retail listing?
These are three different questions. The clearest publishing conversation keeps the finished book, the account, and the retail listing separate.
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Use this guide to make a clearer decision before you start.
The publishing account
The default publishing path uses your own account. That account stays yours, and you control it under the platform’s rules.
The retail listing
When publishing happens through your own account, the listing stays yours. If you ask us to use our account, you keep the book and content but do not own our account or independently control its listing.
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