Archive for 'contracts'
Mailbag: What should my royalty rate be?
Rightreading hereby initiates a new feature (no doubt destined to be as fitful as all our others) in which we answer e-mails from readers.
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A reader writes
I know very little about book contracts.
Can you please elaborate on this subject?
Specifically, what percentage of each book sold should I receive as the author?
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Dear reader
The most general answer is [...]
Posted: August 12th, 2009 under contracts, mailbag.
Comments: 2
Creative Commons
If you will glance down at the footer on this page (or follow the “about” or “policies” links) you will see that I have replaced my copyright notices with creative commons ones. I’m hardly a leader in this — as a guy who has worked in book publishing for many years I have had the [...]
Posted: February 25th, 2008 under contracts, copyright, intellectual.property, rights.
Comments: 1
Recognizing scam publishing offers
Ellen M. Kozak has written a nice summary at Wisconsin Lawyer about “Spotting the Publishing Scam.” You can read the full post there, but I think it’s worth summarizing the main points:
Real publishers don’t make offers overnight. A publisher who offers an agreement a couple days after the ms. arrives is pulling a scam.
A scam [...]
Posted: February 4th, 2008 under books, contracts.
Comments: none
Read the contract
You don’t want this sad story to be yours.
Posted: August 15th, 2007 under contracts, publishing.
Comments: 1