1. About Echo Ink Books
Echo Ink Books, LLC (“Echo Ink,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is an independent publishing and literary platform that connects readers with meaningful books, supports authors, and builds community around stories that encourage curiosity, confidence, connection, and growth.
The website may feature books published by Echo Ink Books as well as books, authors, resources, and services provided by independent authors and third parties.
2. Acceptance of These Terms
By accessing or using this website, you agree to these Terms of Use and any additional terms that apply to a specific service. If you do not agree, please do not use the website.
3. Permitted Website Use
You may use the website for lawful personal, educational, and business purposes consistent with the services offered by Echo Ink Books.
You may not use the website to engage in unlawful, fraudulent, deceptive, abusive, or harmful conduct; interfere with the operation or security of the site; misrepresent your identity or relationship with Echo Ink Books; infringe another person’s intellectual property or other rights; or copy, scrape, reproduce, distribute, or commercially exploit protected website content except as permitted by law or with our written permission.
4. Books and Third-Party Purchases
Some books displayed on Echo Ink Books may be purchased through independent retailers, distributors, authors, or other third-party websites. When you follow an external purchase link, your transaction is with that third party and is subject to that party’s terms, privacy practices, shipping policies, and refund policies.
Echo Ink Books is not responsible for transactions completed on websites that we do not operate.
5. Author and Book Listings
Echo Ink Books may provide pages, profiles, listings, promotional opportunities, or other services for participating authors and their books. The appearance of a book or author on Echo Ink Books does not guarantee sales, commercial performance, reviews, awards, media coverage, or future success.
Authors are responsible for the accuracy of information they provide and for ensuring they possess the rights necessary to submit book covers, descriptions, photographs, biographies, links, excerpts, and other materials.
Paid author memberships and listing services are also governed by the Author Membership Terms.
6. Educational and Reader Resources
Echo Ink Books may provide reading guides, activities, articles, recommendations, worksheets, book-finding tools, and other educational materials for general informational and educational purposes.
Parents, guardians, educators, and other responsible adults should determine whether a particular book or activity is appropriate for an individual reader. Age ranges and recommendations are guidance rather than guarantees of suitability.
7. Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise stated, the Echo Ink Books name, branding, website design, original written content, graphics, resources, and other original materials are owned by or licensed to Echo Ink Books, LLC.
Books, book covers, author photographs, trademarks, illustrations, and other materials belonging to participating authors or third parties remain the property of their respective owners.
8. Submitted Content
When you submit content to Echo Ink Books for publication, listing, or promotion, you retain ownership of your content. You grant Echo Ink Books a non-exclusive license to display, reproduce, resize, format, excerpt, and promote that material as reasonably necessary to provide the requested service and promote the related book, author, program, or Echo Ink community.
You represent that you have the rights and permissions necessary to provide all submitted materials.
9. External Links
Our website may link to bookstores, author websites, social media services, retailers, educational resources, and other external services. Those links are provided for convenience. Echo Ink Books does not control and is not responsible for the content, availability, security, policies, or practices of third-party websites.
10. No Guarantee of Results
Echo Ink Books may provide promotional exposure, community opportunities, educational resources, publishing guidance, marketing support, or related services. We do not guarantee book sales, revenue, audience growth, media coverage, reviews, search rankings, social media performance, publishing contracts, awards, or commercial success.
11. Website Availability
We work to maintain an accurate and accessible website but do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation. Content, functionality, services, and features may be updated, suspended, replaced, or discontinued.
12. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Echo Ink Books, LLC will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or similar damages arising from use of the website, reliance on website information, third-party services, or inability to access the website.
13. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms as the website, membership program, or services evolve. The current version will be posted on this page with its effective or updated date.