Store Author Agreement

1. Parties and acceptance

This agreement is between you (the author) and ePress Norden AB, a limited company (aktiebolag) registered in Sweden, organisation number ⟨ORG-NR⟩, with its registered office at ⟨ADDRESS⟩. It is governed by Swedish law.

• You accept it by click-through when you first publish a pack for sale in the Store. You cannot publish a paid pack without accepting the version then in force.
• We record the version you accepted together with the time of acceptance, so both sides can prove what was agreed.
• The current version is always published at this page (`https://fixa.sh/pages/author-agreement.html`). When we change it materially we follow section 7's amendment process; the version you accepted continues to govern packs and sales made under it.

2. The licence you grant

You grant ePress a non-exclusive, worldwide licence, sublicensable to the parties in our distribution chain (including Paddle as merchant of record and our content-delivery and hosting providers), to host, distribute, promote, and retain the pack versions you publish, for the purpose of selling and delivering them to buyers and supporting those buyers afterwards.

• You keep ownership. This is a licence, not an assignment. The copyright and every other right in your pack stay yours.
• It is non-exclusive. You may license the same work elsewhere; nothing here stops you.
• Retention is deliberate. The licence to *retain* published versions is what lets us keep delivering a version to the buyers who already bought it — re-installs and re-downloads — even after you stop selling it or leave. It is the mechanism behind the buyer-facing "yours to keep" promise in the Fair-change Policy. Retention is limited to serving existing buyers and meeting our legal record-keeping duties.
• You may stop future sales at any time. You can unpublish a pack so that no new buyer can purchase it. Unpublishing does not withdraw the licence for versions already sold — those remain available to the buyers who already hold them, under the retention licence above.
• Promotion. You permit us to use the pack's name, icon, description, screenshots, and your published author name to list, feature, and market the pack across the Store and our marketing surfaces.

3. What you promise (author warranties)

For every pack and every version you publish, you promise that:

• You have the rights. You own or hold a valid licence to everything in the pack — code, assets, text, and any third-party components — sufficient to grant us the licence in section 2. Any open-source or third-party material is included on terms compatible with distribution through the Store, and its notices are preserved.
• It contains no malware. The pack has no hidden, malicious, or deceptive behaviour, and does nothing materially different from what its description and manifest say.
• It complies with the Acceptable Use Policy. Everything you publish meets the Acceptable Use Policy, which is part of this agreement.
• Third-party calls are disclosed. If the pack calls any third-party or network service, you disclose that clearly in the pack description and manifest.
• Your identity is accurate. The author identity and contact details you give us are true and current, and you keep them current.

These promises are the basis on which we list your pack and pay you. The indemnity in section 7 stands behind them.

4. Revenue, payouts, and tax

What we pay you is a licence royalty for the right to distribute your pack — not the buyer's purchase price passed through. You are our licensor; we are the seller of record toward Paddle and the buyer.

• The split is set by the published Store terms. Your share is governed by the revenue-split terms the Store publishes, not frozen as a number in this contract. At launch the default split is 80% to the author and 20% to ePress. Promotional or negotiated splits — for example a founding-author 90/10 — are recorded as a per-pack override and, where they apply, replace the default for that pack.
• The split for a sale never changes after that sale. Once a sale is made, the share that applies to it is fixed. We may change the split going forward, but only on 30 days' notice, and a change only ever affects sales made after it takes effect. We never reach back and re-price a sale you have already earned on.
• Payouts are quarterly, above a threshold. We pay accrued royalties quarterly, once your unpaid balance exceeds USD $25. A balance below the threshold carries forward to the next quarter. We pay by bank transfer, or by another method we agree with you.
• Self-billing (självfakturering). You authorise ePress to issue the royalty invoice on your behalf for each payout, so you do not have to invoice us. We will identify each self-billed invoice as such and send you a copy. This authorisation lasts while this agreement is in force; either side may end it on notice, in which case you invoice us instead.
• Set-off. We may withhold and set off unpaid royalties against amounts you owe us — including a substantiated indemnity claim under section 7 or a proven misrepresentation of the rights in your pack. We will tell you when we do this and why.
• Your taxes are yours. You are responsible for your own taxes on the royalties we pay you. Royalties are paid gross unless the law requires us to withhold. We may need to collect tax and identity details from you before your first payout (see the author payout form); the VAT treatment of your royalty invoice depends on where you are and whether you are registered for VAT.

5. Moderation and takedown

We may unlist a pack — remove it from search and browse — if it breaks the Acceptable Use Policy or the law. Unlisting changes the pack's state, not its bytes: a published version is never silently altered.

• Existing buyers keep access. Unlisting a pack does not take it away from people who already bought it; they keep the right to install and re-download the versions that existed when they bought. The only exceptions are confirmed malware and a binding legal order, where we may also withdraw access from existing buyers to protect them or to comply.
• You get a statement of reasons. When we act against your pack we tell you what we did and why, and you may appeal as described in the Acceptable Use Policy.

6. Pricing and version immutability

• You set the price, within the Store's published rails. You choose your pack's price within the price rails the Store publishes from time to time — at launch, between USD $1.00 and USD $50.00 for a paid pack, or free. Prices are in US dollars; Paddle charges each buyer in their own currency.
• Published versions are immutable. Once a version is published, its contents and its price are locked — they cannot be edited. This is enforced, not just promised. To change anything in a published pack, including its price, you publish a new version. Earlier versions remain exactly as they were for the buyers who hold them.

7. Indemnity, liability, term, and amendments

• Indemnity. You will defend and indemnify ePress against third-party claims that your pack — or our distribution of it under the licence you granted — infringes that party's intellectual-property rights or otherwise breaches the warranties in section 3, including reasonable legal costs. We will tell you promptly of any such claim and let you take part in the defence.
• Our liability to you is capped. To the fullest extent the law allows, ePress's total liability to you under this agreement is limited to the royalties we paid you in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim. We are not liable to you for indirect or consequential loss. Nothing here excludes liability that the law does not permit us to exclude — including for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.
• Term and survival. This agreement runs while you have packs published or unpaid royalties owing. Either side may end it on notice. Two things survive termination: the retention licence in section 2 (so existing buyers keep the versions they bought), and the buyers' entitlements themselves. Your right to future payouts on sales already made survives until paid.
• Amendments. We version this agreement and record material changes in a public changelog. A material change takes effect on 30 days' notice. Re-acceptance of the new version is required only to keep publishing new packs or versions — packs and sales already made stay governed by the version you accepted when you made them. We never weaken a promise you already relied on.

If you have questions about this agreement, contact us before you accept it.