Guidance for Printing Your Own Textbook

The license details described on the License page supercede this page, and the goal of this page is to aid interpretation and provide more concrete meanings of the information on that page for someone seeking to create their own print books.

1. Printing an OpenIntro textbook and keeping the same title is not permitted. Any prints not commissioned by OpenIntro are a derivative product and require a new title for the book being printed and sold.
• Printing the textbook with the same title implies a connection or partnership with OpenIntro, and quality issues with any such prints are likely to reflect poorly on OpenIntro, harm the value of our products and trademarks, and harm the lean business model that keeps us in operation. For this reason, one of the conditionals included on the License page is that any derivative textbooks, including printing a virtually identical textbook, requires the use of a different title.
• Wholesale purchase options are available for resellers who would like to sell OpenIntro textbooks.
2. The OpenIntro trademarks may not be used. For example, printed textbooks not commissioned by OpenIntro should not be referred to in any way, explicitly or implicitly, as an OpenIntro textbook.
3. Some titles may refer to being AP Ready®. If you want the new book you are printing to have this label, you will need to get it approved by The College Board. You may not assume that your book, because it is a derivative of an OpenIntro textbook, is approved for this label. It may also be necessary to make changes to any textbook files accessed on our site prior to printing to adjust any such language.