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How to give proper attribution for photos in your book
I use photos from DepositPhotos.com in some of my books. However, I’ve never been totally sure how to give proper attribution for the photos. What is the correct way to do this? Is it enough to say the following in my copyright notice? “All images used in this publication have been licensed, purchased, or obtained from sources that permit commercial use.” ….OR….“Images are royalty-free for commercial use.” ....OR....is there some other way to word this that would be better? OR do you write the name of each Photographer's Nickname underneath each photo like this "Photographer's Nickname/DepositPhotos" OR do you write the name of each Photographer’s Nickname/DepositPhotos with the page number of their photo in the copyright notice? I’ve asked Amazon about this and they said I could do any of the above, but I wanted to double-check that information. @Elissa Graeser @Kate Duncan
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@Yna Davis Thanks Yna. I verified with a Live Chat agent at DepositPhotos and the license agreement pages on DepositPhotos.com that giving credit for photos that are not Editorial Use Only is optional. The photos I use are not Editorial Use Only. They're just regular photos. Honestly, several of the photos I've used are for recipes so I don't want to say Deposit Photos under the photo and I don't want a long list of image sources at the end of the book saying Deposit Photos cuz it will look weird in a cookbook. But, I do want to make it clear in my copyright notice in a single line or two that all images came from Deposit Photos. However, I'm having a heck of a time knowing how exactly to WORD that properly in legal terms. Can I PLEASE get your help with the wording? Is this written correctly (below)? I have no idea if this is sufficient. Please let me know what you think or please suggest something better. Here's what I've got... "All images used in this book are licensed from Depositphotos under a Standard License that permits commercial use." I spoke with a live chat agent at Depositphotos and she said that if I wanted a general reference for all the images I could say the following (below) but this is all she gave me and I don't know how to put this into a sentence. DepositPhotos / Royalty-free for commercial use Also, I don't know if I should say royalty-free or not. Do you know? Should I say royalty-free? I heard it's better not to say that because it can be misinterpreted. But then others say I should say that. Also, if I'm writing a single line or two in the copyright page to cover all the images, how do I write the company name, Deposit Photos? I don't know which of these ways I should write it: DepositPhotos or DepositPhotos.com or Depositphotos or depositphotos.com Ugh! I'm so confused! Help!
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@Yna Davis Could you offer a little more advice based on my response to you? Would love to get just a bit more help.
Using CHATGPT as an editor for parts of my books
QUESTIONS: 1) Is it okay to use CHATGPT as an editor for parts of my non-fiction book? 2) If so, what am I supposed to make of what the Grammarly AI Detector is finding as possible AI generated text? See details below. 3) Can you recommend a good AI Detector? If so, what percentage of text is okay to possibly appear as AI generated? I write non-fiction books in the health and spiritual/self-help niche. I’ve always had ghostwriters write books for me and I would often tweak a few things here and there before publishing. I recently heard someone online say that they use CHATGPT as an editor. I thought I’d give that a try to clean up some sections of a couple books I thought could be better. After doing so, I ran the book through the Grammarly AI Detector and it said that some of my text looked AI generated. Not a lot, but some. I made a note of what it showed me and continued scanning my text. When it got to the recipe section of one of my books, it said again, that some of my text looked AI generated. But this time it was ridiculous because it was saying that ingredient lists were AI generated. It also cited nutritional values as AI generated. I then scanned the exact same section of text from the original copy of my book before I added CHATGPT edits, and the AI Detector cited the same things re: ingredient lists and nutritional values. Not sure what to think of this.
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@Gary Anderson Interesting. Thanks
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@Joe Tyndall Thanks for your response. As far as I know, it seems to be good at checking for punctuation and grammar. It's also good at finding things like duplicated text or spelling errors (of medical words etc) that I wouldn't even notice.
Question about reviews from Book Launchers May 12, 2026 video
@Julie Broad – Hi Julie, Can you please clarify something in this recent video you posted? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HNpJExCw_g At 3:55 you said the following… “now more than ever you should prioritize verified reviews.” Then at 4:21 you said to “really avoid outside copies or PDFs as much as possible with your reviewer pushes.” So, in light of this, what about the standard practice of ARC copies that readers receive via Booksprout, Book Funnel, or PDF? This has been my main way of getting initial reviews for my new books. How would I change this to receive verified reviews from ARCs?
Re: BOOK COVER DESIGN & UNIQUENESS - QUESTION
I know that Amazon’s rules state that our book cover can’t be similar to another book cover, so how do we check if our book cover is truly unique? I know that Amazon can be pretty strict about this. 1 - I usually just scroll through as many books in my niche as I can, but is that enough? 2 - Is there a tool that we can use to make sure that there isn’t a cover out there somewhere on Amazon that looks like mine? 3 - Curious to know what others do to make sure their cover is truly unique?
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@Yna Davis Okay. Thank you for the tips. I appreciate it.
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Thank you all for your help. I posted this question because I ran across a video on youtube the other day, just in passing, about someone who had their account terminated because her cover was too similar to someone elses cover. I'm also part of a Skool publishing group where someone there also had their account terminated for having a cover that was too similar to another cover. I know that there are many covers on Amazon that look alike so it surprises me when I hear of people having their accounts terminated due to their covers looking too much like another cover. It's confusing and concerning. That's why I wanted to reach out for some help in how to think about this.
Need help finding someone to format my ebooks & paperbacks
Can anyone recommend someone who is great and experienced at formatting non-fiction books - ebook and paperback - on Fiverr or Upwork? Also honest and reasonably priced. - Thanks
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