A set portion of a sale, earned by the author, from books sold directly through the book publishing service's online bookstore.

A set portion of a sale, earned by the author, from books sold through stores not owned by the book publisher, whether they are online or brick-and-mortar stores.

Author keeps all rights to the book, including publishing rights, subsidiary rights and so on.

An evaluation of a submitted manuscript to see whether additional copyediting is required.

OCR is an acronym for Optical Character Recognition, which scans and converts paper manuscripts into digitized, editable text. Other services may simply enter the data into a word processing program manually to get a paper manuscript into a digital format.

The online book publishing service assigns your book an International Standard Book Number or an ISBN (sometimes pronounced "is-ben), which acts as a unique identifier for your book.

A wholesale distributions catalogue that retail bookstores can use to order books.