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A Self-Help Rights Guide for Independent Publishers

Rights Hardt

Petra Hardt, Foreign Rights Director at Berlin’s Suhrkamp Verlag, has written ‘Rights: Buying. Protecting. Selling’ to help publishers make the best choices.

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SURVEY: What Is the Top Issue for Frankfurt 2011?

E-books, royalties, new business models? Take our survey and let us know what you think.

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Licensing 101: How Publishers Can Get into the Licensing Business

Publishers exhibiting at the Licensing Expo International included Penguin, Scholastic and Wiley. Harlequin was represented by a licensing agency called Brandgenuity.

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Publishers Need (Re)Education, So What Would You Teach?

How to monetize digital? Book discovery? Rights and royalties? Macro or micro, let us know what you think. By Edward Nawotka Education, as the cliche  … 

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DISCUSS: Should Tweeters Be Compensated for Contributions to Books?

By Edward Nawotka Today’s feature looks at some of the copyright and compensation issues surrounding the publication of the book Tweets from Tahrir, a collection  … 

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The Future of Rights: Standards and Shared Metadata

By Emily Williams The paper book is an object of beauty and simplicity. This neat package has allowed books to conceal for many years the  … 

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Bloomsbury UK’s Glee Video

By Alex Hippisley-Cox A video produced by Bloomsbury staff here in the UK has been taking publishing by storm this afternoon. The footage, which has  … 

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Do Book Editors Deserve a Cut of the Profits?

By Edward Nawotka In today’s lead story former Harcourt editor Ann Patty raises an interesting question: If an editor is integral to the shaping of  … 

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The Future for Book Editors: Royalties?

Ann Patty

Editorial by Ann Patty For 34 years, I worked as an editor and publisher in New York publishing corporations. I was the youngest editor ever  … 

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Author Contracts 2.0: Putting Cash Before Copyright and Control

By Liz Bury In the world of multi-channel digital distribution the future author contract is likely to put transparency and cash flow above copyright protection,  … 

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