DEFINITIONS ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 For the purposes of this agreement, the book titled "One Page Wisdom. Book 1" (Paperback. ISBN 978-0-9806452-0-0) and the ebook titled "One Page Wisdom. Book 1" (Ebook. ISBN 978-0-9806452-1-7), containing one page SUBMISSIONS of between 1-700 words thereabouts, submitted by various members of the website www.newagedirectories.com, after purchasing a paid allocation in the book "One Page Wisdom. Book 1"; compiled, edited, marketed, distributed, designed and published by Life Skills Australia (www.lifeskillsaustralia.com); and then sold and distributed via the website www.onepagewisdom.com; shall be known as the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 ONE PAGE OF WISDOM For the purposes of this agreement, the written information of between 1-700 words thereabouts, that is submitted to the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 shall be known as ONE PAGE OF WISDOM. CO-AUTHOR (YOU) For the purposes of this agreement, a person contributing ONE PAGE OF WISDOM for the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 will be known as the co-author. THE PUBLISHER For the purposes of this agreement, Life Skills Australia of www.lifeskillsaustralia.com, shall be known as THE PUBLISHER. THE ONLINE AGREEMENT I the co-author agree that by pressing the "I Agree" button contained within the website www.onepagewisdom.com at (http://www.onepagewisdom.com/html/shop/agreement.htm), constitutes the electronic equivalent of my signature, equivalent to my written permission, stating that I agree with the terms and conditions of this agreement SUBMISSIONS For the purposes of this agreement, ONE PAGE OF WISDOM manuscripts, submitted by members of the New Age Directories website www.newagedirectories.com, as part of each members "One Page Wisdom" profile, shall be known as SUBMISSIONS. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Co-author We've agreed that you'll write ONE PAGE OF WISDOM on a subject for publication by THE PUBLISHER Life Skills Australia for the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1. This agreement will serve as our publishing agreement when you click on the "I Agree" button contained within the website www.onepagewisdom.com at (http://www.onepagewisdom.com/html/one_page_wisdom/agreement.htm), THE TERMS ARE AS FOLLOWS: DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK 1.0 You will prepare ONE PAGE OF WISDOM of approximately 1-700 words thereabouts, of 1 page in length, for the inclusion in the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1. The book will be of professional quality and will include material to cover the outline attached to this letter and made a part of it. 1.1. We'll expect you to provide a written work of at least one word and a maximum of 700 words or whatever fits within THE PUBLISHERS book format or template for the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1. 1.2. You can submit one word or 700 words thereabouts, the choice is yours, and you are welcome to change your ONE PAGE OF WISDOM as the book progresses, as long your meet THE PUBLISHERS ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 SUBMISSION deadlines. 1.3. Likewise, we expect the outline to change as the book is developed. The outline we attach to the agreement is more of an indication of the things we've agreed will be covered in the book. THE GRANT OF RIGHTS 2.0. You grant us the exclusive right to print, publish, distribute, and sell copies of the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1, and works derived from the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1, in printed form and in electronic media such as CD-ROM, and to license others to do so, for the duration of the copyright in the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1, in all languages, throughout the world. Your name will appear on the title page of the book as its author, but we'll obtain copyright for the book in our name. We may edit, add to, and delete from the book as we wish; and with several hundred co-authors for the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1, we may not be able to submit all changes to you for approval. 2.1. Note that we require more complete editorial control than most publishers because we consider all our books part of a series, and we want to establish a "brand identity" where people know what to expect from any of our books. And because the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 has several hundred co-authors we are unable to provide editorial help or advice FORMAT OF THE BOOK 3.0. You will follow the style and practice of existing Life Skills Australia books and publications, as described in materials we supply. All co-authors are required to follow the style and design requirements of the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK series. We cannot allow for special or custom style or design elements in their ONE PAGE OF WISDOM. 3.1. Life Skills Australia uses several standard designs for its books. If your book is part of a series, it will use the design of that series. All co-authors are required to follow the style and design requirements of the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT BOOK series. All SUBMISSIONS for the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 will be submitted as part of the "One Page Wisdom Profile" located in the co-authors New Age Directories membership at www.newagedirectories.com. Life Skills Australia then formats that data for inclusion in the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1. We do NOT accept SUBMISSIONS for the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 in any other format. 3.2. The production group, THE PUBLISHER, One Page Wisdom website or the editor may supply you with a style guide and a list of conventions as part of the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 SUBMISSION and editorial guidelines. We ask that you use these submission and editorial guidelines when necessary. DELIVERY OF THE SUBMISSION 4.0. You will deliver your ONE PAGE OF WISDOM according to the following schedule: 4.1. ONE PAGE OF WISDOM SUBMISSIONS can only be submitted by members of the New Age Directories website at www.newagedirectories.com. 4.2. ONE PAGE OF WISDOM SUBMISSIONS can only be submitted as part of each member's "One Page Wisdom" profile located in their members section of the New Age Directories website. 4.3. THE PUBLISHER will then download all SUBMISSIONS from all New Age Directories website as an SQL/Excel file and then format those SUBMISSIONS in accordance with THE PUBLISHERS style and design requirements for the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1. 4.4. Your SUBMISSION can be changed and updated at will, but must be saved as part of the normal process of updating your New Age Directories profile(s), and must be updated before the submission deadlines to be included in the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1. The PUBLISHER is neither responsible nor liable for SUBMISSION errors or if you don't update or save your "One Page Wisdom" profile properly. 4.5. There are no one-half chapters, technical review drafts, source drafts, or final form drafts for the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1. There is only a final SUBMISSION determined by the SUBMISSIONS close date. 4.6. Final SUBMISSIONS, suitable to us in form and content, for the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1, must be submitted by 01/07/09 4.7. All SUBMISSIONS incur a page allocation fee to be payable to the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT via the One Page Wisdom website www.onepagewisdom.com. The fee is made payable to New Age Directories PayPalT account and is NON REFUNDABLE, unless an agreement is made between the PUBLISHER and the co-author and at the PUBLISHERS discretion. 4.8. Page allocation/positions for each page allocation fee schedule, will be determined by the date and time that a co-authors payment was made to PayPalT, and then arranged in chronological order, in accordance with our style and design requirements, and at the PUBLISHERS discretion. 4.9. The PayPal transaction ID for the page allocation will then be allocated to the co-author a project ID number. 4.10. There is a limit of 111 co-authors, subject to change depending in print and editorial requirements, for the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT BOOK -1 and SUBMISSIONS close after that limit has been reached. 4.11. Any co-authors paying fees after that limit has been reached will have their fees refunded. 4.12. THE PUBLISHER, LIFE SKILLS AUSTRALIA, AND/OR ITS EMPLOYEES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND VOLUNTEERS, AND THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THE ASSOCIATED WEBSITES, EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITY (INCLUDING LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL AND SIMILAR DAMAGES) ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF OR RELIANCE ON THE PAYPALT ECOMMERCE SYSTEM, PAYMENTS, WEBSITE OR ASSOCIATED PROCESSES AND FUNCTIONS OF PAYPALT. 4.13. We very much want to complete this ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 with you as contracted, but we cannot provide editorial support, design and illustration services, professional indexing, copy-editing, and proofreading. The co-author is fully responsible for their ONE PAGE OF WISDOM. Although we edit, proof read and format all SUBMISSION content to fit our style and design requirements, we are NOT responsible in any way for spelling errors, grammatical errors, styles (such as italic, bold, exclamation marks, question marks, quotation marks), layout; word spacing, paragraphing, and content of your SUBMISSIONS 4.14. However, the timely delivery of this book to market is a critical factor for its success so we do try and offer some editorial advice, guidelines, questions and answers, and some tools to help you prior to the SUBMISSIONS close date. 4.15. If you DO NOT make the SUBMISSIONS close date then your ONE PAGE OF WISDOM will NOT be included in the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 and any moneys paid by the co-author for inclusions in the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 will be forfeited to cover administration costs 4.16. A delay of more than 3 days from any of the deadline dates above requires the agreement of THE PUBLISHER; otherwise, we may fill your allocated page in the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1, with another co-authors ONE PAGE OF WISDOM. 4.17. A delay of 7 days will result in cancellation of the agreement. 4.18. THE PUBLISHER has the right to reject any SUBMISSION the co-author presents, if the SUBMISSION does meet the editorial or project requirements and is deemed not fit for publication. The PUBLISHER also has the right to make changes beyond routine copy-editing without the author's approval. If your SUBMISSION is rejected and if the co-author has paid money to be included in the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1, then that money will be refunded. 4.19. If you miss the SUBMISSION deadline, then you forfeit your moneys paid to be allocated in the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1. We're likely to allow some late changes if deemed necessary, but at our editorial, content and formatting discretion. And if the material you've provided is good, but just incomplete, we'll contact you and ask for changes to be made. Timely delivery of the SUBMISSION, however, is very important to the success of your book and we urge you to write, edit, proof, complete your SUBMISSIONS by 01/07/09 to avoid disappointment. ROYALTIES AND ADVANCES THE ROYALTY RATE 5.0. The co-author royalty rate has been calculated by dividing the total royalty rate of 11% by the number of co-authors in the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1, so that each co-author gets an equal share of the 11% total royalty rate. For example. If there were 111 co-authors and the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 made $250,000.00 in one year, then each co-author would receive $247.75 in royalties for that year. ($250,000.00 multiplied by 11% (0.11) and then divided by 111) 5.1. We will pay the aforementioned royalty, to each co-author in the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1, of all net income we receive as a result of our distribution of the book, in any form, printed, electronic, or other, or from the license or sale to third parties of any rights in a derivative work. 5.2. Net income is the total revenue of the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1, after subtracting all costs and operating expenses of the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 such as printing, publishing, cataloguing, distribution, editorial, design, packing, co-author special payments or bonuses, websites, website server and hosting, ecommerce, warehousing, shipping, depreciation, interest, taxes, and other associated ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 expenses. 5.3. The PUBLISHER can nominate co-authors for a "co-author special payment or bonus" at the publishers discretion if that co-authors ONE PAGE OF WISDOM is for example, nominated or cited by readers as being the most popular or best written, or for competition or marketing purposes, or for co-author project contribution reasons. 5.2. For translated editions published by Life Skills Australia's own subsidiaries, we will pay a royalty of 0.0165% of net income (half the above rate to reflect the extra cost of translating the books) 5.3. If we include all or part of your book in another book that we publish, you will receive a pro-rata share of the royalties from that book in the proportion that the number of words used from your book bears to the whole book. 5.4. Part of the book "royalties" should also be viewed as the potential to earn revenue from a worldwide audience of readers, following each co-authors direct link (published in the book and the ebook underneath your Title and Name) back to the co-authors New Age Directories profile, where the co-author can freely advertise their businesses, products, services, contacts, websites and other information pertaining to business income. THE ADVANCE 6.0. With several hundred co-authors it is logistically and financially impossible for us to pay advances. We do not pay any advance against royalties for the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1. ROYALITY PAYMENTS 7.0. We will make royalty payments to you yearly (on or before the 30th June, in the year which the royalties were accrued) and/or bi-yearly if circumstances permit (on or before the 30th June and the 1st Dec in the year which the royalties were accrued), and only if the royalties for each co-author exceed $10.00 USD per co-author. 7.1. Do the number of co-authors involved in this project, we pay royalties via PayPalT. PayPalT is free to join and the safest and most cost effective way we can pay you. 7.2. All co-authors of the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 must have a PayPalT account to be paid and must then supply the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 with their PayPalT email address to be paid royalties. 7.3. Co-authors will FORFIET their royalty payments in that yearly or bi-yearly payment period, if they do not supply the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 with their current and correct PayPalT details. 7.4. All co-authors agree to take full responsibility for their particular countries income, payments, and tax laws in regards to their royalty payments. The ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 simply pays you the agreed royalty fee. 7.5. Payments will appear in your PayPalT as being from New Age Directories (paypal@newagedirectories.com), for "One Page Wisdom. Book 1. Shared Royalty Payment" AUDITS 8.0. You or your qualified representative may examine our books or records pertaining to this agreement at our principal place of business, during normal working hours, not more than once each year, on reasonable written notice. OUR BUSINESS MODEL 9.0. Our business model for ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT is to benefit the co-authors of the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1; via the direction of book traffic, ebook traffic and other internet traffic; to their individual and collective new age, spiritual, alternative and holistic business, products and services; advertised at New Age Directories; for the benefit of human consciousness as a whole. We continue to support the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 with clever promotions, advertising, and publicity to satisfy our business model FREE COPIES OF THE BOOK 10.0 You will be given 1 copy of the paperback book titled "One Page Wisdom. Book 1" (Paperback. ISBN 978-0-9806452-0-0), mailed to the co-author, at not cost to the co-author (including packaging, handling and shipping costs). To an address nominated by the co-author 10.1. All co-authors are responsible for suppling correct postal address details and The ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT is not responsibility for lost book copies, incorrect deliveries, damaged mail, postal service errors, or incorrectly addresses parcels. 10.2. You will be given 1 free copy of the ebook titled "One Page Wisdom. Book 1" (Ebook. ISBN 978-0-9806452-1-7), which you can send to an unlimited amount of people as a "free ebook copy of the book "one Page Wisdom. Book 1". You cannot sell this "free ebook copy" - it is ONLY to be given away to family, friends and colleagues. You can sell a copy of the ebook (we'll pay you) by becoming an affiliate (www.onepagewisdom.com) 10.3. You have the right to "buy wholesale copies of the book" by virtue of our affiliate program where we will give back a large percentage of the purchase price for each copy of the book and ebook that you sell. In other words, when you become an affiliate (www.onepagewisdom.com), you can buy a copy of the book at full price and then we'll refund a large percentage of the purchase price back to you. We do this to fix the book and ebook prices at a fair level and to prevent "underselling" or "over-pricing" REVISED EDITIONS OF THE BOOK 11.0. If we want you to revise the book, we will agree on a delivery date and possible compensation, both of which will depend on the nature and extent of the revisions. The other terms will be the same as those for the original version of the book. If you are unwilling or unable to do the revision, after we offer you the first opportunity to do so, we may arrange for others to do it, and may credit the reviser as editor, co-author, or co-author of the revised edition. ORIGINAL CONTENT 12.0. While there are "fair use" rules covering free use of small excerpts from other writers published work (at most a paragraph or two, and in support of your own discussion), in this project we encourage you to write and submit your own original work (ideals, point of view, expertise, etc). It's YOU we want to publish - not someone else. We will only accept excerpts if it is a necessary part of your submission and only if you have written permission to use another person's work. 12.1. If you have added your favourite quote or saying then you must cite the author of that quote or saying, to the best of your knowledge. We ask you to carefully research each quote or saying as the editorial team will not have time to do so and your quote or saying may be deleted if not properly cited. Otherwise you cite the author of that quote as "Traditional Saying" or "Author Unknown" 12.2. You warrant to us that your ONE PAGE OF WISDOM is original, except that for which you obtain permissions acceptable to us, and that it won't impair anyone else's rights, and that you have the power to make this agreement. You warrant to us that your ONE PAGE OF WISDOM has NOT been plagiarized, stolen, or already sold to another publisher. You will indemnify us, our agents, and our employees, and hold us and them harmless, against any loss or cost, including reasonable attorney's fees, arising out of a breach or claim of breach of these warranties. 12.3. If you use someone else's material by permission, be sure to request and receive that permission in writing! Send us copies of all permissions letters for our files to the address below: ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 C/- Life Skills Australia Po Box 30 Merimbula NSW. 2548 Australia While there are "fair use" rules covering free use of small excerpts from published work (at most a paragraph or two, and in support of your own discussion), anything unpublished cannot be reproduced without permission. If you're requesting permission from a publisher to use material published elsewhere, they will most likely have a standard permissions letter that they will send out. They'll want a letter from you stating exactly what material you plan to use. But if you're requesting permission from an individual, or from an institution other than a publisher, you might save yourself time and effort if you do a bit more of the work up front. Send them a letter which has something like the following format: Dear ....: I'd like to quote from ... (provide whatever detail is necessary to identify exactly what material you want to use; if there's a lot of it, it might be easier to refer to an addendum to the letter, where you can use a list format) in my forthcoming book on blah, blah. Please confirm your agreement by signing the enclosed copy of this letter and returning it to me. Send copies of any permissions letters to us. Keep a copy for your own files as well. COMPETING WORKS 13.0. The co-author agrees not to produce another work that competes with the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 without prior permission of THE PUBLISHER. This includes other works of the same concept, title, website database SUBMISSION collection methods, structure or anything else that would violate the originality or copyright of the ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1 and or any other subsequent ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT related publications or works. FINAL LEGALESE 14.0. Neither of us may assign this agreement without first getting the other's written consent, unless we sell or transfer substantially all our assets or ownership interest to the assignee, when no consent will be needed. 15.0. Our agreement is subject to the laws of New South Wales, Australia, governing contracts made and to be performed there. 16.0. ALL OF THE INFORMATION IN THE ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1, AND THE ONE PAGE WISDOM WEBSITE ARE INTENDED FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, AND ARE NOT IN ANY WAY INTENDED TO BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL COUNSELLING, GUIDANCE, MEDICAL ADVICE, OR ANY OTHER SUCH TREATMENT OR CARE. ALWAYS SEEK MEDICAL ADVICE FROM A QUALIFIED MEDICAL OR HEALTH PRACTITIONER. 17.0. THE PUBLISHER, LIFE SKILLS AUSTRALIA, AND/OR ITS EMPLOYEES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND VOLUNTEERS, AND THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THE ASSOCIATED WEBSITES, MAKES NO GUARANTEES, WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS, IMPLIED OR EXPRESS, AS TO THE APPROPRIATENESS, TIMELINESS, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, AND/OR USEFULNESS OF ANY OF THE INFORMATION, OPINIONS, ADVICE, SERVICES, DATA OR OTHER INFORMATION CONTAINED OR REFERENCED IN THIS PUBLICATION. 18.0. THE PUBLISHER, LIFE SKILLS AUSTRALIA, AND/OR ITS EMPLOYEES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND VOLUNTEERS, AND THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THE ASSOCIATED WEBSITES, EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITY (INCLUDING LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL AND SIMILAR DAMAGES) ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF OR RELIANCE ON THIS PUBLICATION, INCLUDING THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN, AND FOR ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE PROVIDED BY ANY THIRD PARTY CONTRIBUTING TO THIS PUBLICATION. I AGREE 19.0. IF YOU FIND THESE TERMS ACCEPTABLE, THEN PLEASE PRESS THE "I AGREE" BUTTON AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS WEBPAGE (http://www.onepagewisdom.com/html/one_page_wisdom/agreement.htm), AND BY PRESSING THIS "I AGREE" BUTTON YOU AGREE THAT ACTION CONSTITUTES THE ELECTRONIC EQUIVALENT OF YOUR WRITTEN SIGNATURE, EQUIVALENT TO YOUR WRITTEN PERMISSION, STATING THAT YOU FULLY AGREE WITH ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THAT YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND UNDERSTAND THE RIGHTS, OBLIGATIONS, TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH HEREIN. BY CLICKING ON THE "I AGREE" BUTTON AND/OR CONTINUING PUCHASE A PAGE IN THE ONE PAGE WISDOM PROJECT - BOOK 1, YOU EXPRESSLY CONSENT TO BE BOUND BY ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND GRANT TO THE PUBLISHER THE RIGHTS SET FORTH HEREIN.