How a work is protected

An Exaratio work isn't a loose document: it carries the signature of whoever wrote it and travels protected. Its author writes it and decides what to do with it; anyone they give it to can read it, just as they left it.

The signature

With your computer activated (Your licenses and your computers), every time you save, your work is signed with your account. The signature says two things: that the work is yours, and that no one has touched it since you saved it. If someone changes the file outside Exaratio, the signature no longer matches and Exaratio says so.

Whoever reads your work sees it in its presentation (The work's presentation and its book): Signed, with your name —or without it, if you chose to publish it anonymously (Title, author and book details)—.

Protected inside Exaratio

Besides being signed, a signed work is encrypted. It opens in any Exaratio —with a license or without one— to be read in the Reader, but only its owner can edit it or take it out of Exaratio in another format (Who can edit and export a work). Whoever reads it can't select or copy the text.

The rights

In your work's properties you declare its rights: Protected —all rights reserved— or Free, with the license you choose (Title, author and book details). Whoever reads it sees this in its presentation, so they know whether they can share it.

Before you share it

To give a book to readers, don't share your work: generate an edition (The edition, the book you share). It's an .xrtb file with a single book and only what you decide, signed and protected just the same, that no one can edit.

What you export —PDF, EPUB, Word, Kindle…— is a file like any other: it no longer carries Exaratio's protection. Use it to print, for your publisher or for a store, knowing that whoever receives it can copy it (Export: formats and options).

If you read

The signature is your guarantee: if the presentation says Signed, you're reading the author's work just as they left it. The work is theirs; you read it, annotate it and rate it, but you don't change it or take it out of Exaratio (Read a work with Exaratio).