Sentences with phrase «author contracts so»

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«So much of success is a function of personal leadership,» says Vince Molinaro, managing director for leadership solutions at Knightsbridge Human Capital Solutions and author of The Leadership Contract.

Although there are other solutions already on the market that also claims to allow users to create smart contracts without any coding, Superset is one of the few that can do so with «plain English» as far as the author is aware.

Copyright automatically belongs to the author so companies must make it clear that this is not the case in employment contracts;

They have a shelf life of 8/10 years at the very top if they are lucky so who can begrudge them the opportunity to make hay whilst the sun is shining... am not saying Sanchez is not money driven but the way the guy plays i can mortgage my life he actually enjoys the game, enjoys wining first and foremost then money comes 2nd... like the author of the article rightly pointed out, he was in Messi's shadow at Barca and could not express himself fully, now he is at a club where he is the main man and given a free role and license to express himself and i very much doubt if he will want to go to a club like Madrid (as been rumoured in the dailies today) to relieve the bad experience he suffered at Barca because let us face facts, he is never going to displace CR7 as the main man, so even if Madrid sells Benzema or Bale to make room for him he will be back to the same position he was at Barca, this time he will be playing 2nd fiddle to CR7 so my guess is all the Madrid talks is been fed the press by his agents to drive a hard bargain when contract extension talks resumes.....

And ideally would get less than $ 15M per — but I am predicting a future that is authored by the idiots in the front office — so I expect his deal with look something like $ 19M — $ 18M — $ 17M — my hope is that they don't throw in the fourth season at $ 20M and / or they don't match some nonsense max contract from Brooklyn (or whoever)... as I note, I see Lavine is a net negative player who could put up impressive numbers on a bad team — good for the tank.

Which is why Mandy Len Catron's Modern Love essay this week was so gratifying — the University of British Columbia professor and author of the just - released book How to Fall in Love With Anyone, used our renewable marriage contract when moving in with her romantic partner.

Which is why Mandy Len Catron's most recent Modern Love essay was so gratifying — the University of British Columbia professor and author of the just - released book How to Fall in Love With Anyone, used our renewable marriage contract when moving in with her romantic partner.

We will also send letters to the authors of these works and apologize for not printing that trade paper we told them they would get in their contract but then didn't after we saw their hardback didn't sell so well.

The «life of copyright» clause has no effect on the rights of authors to request reversion of their publishing rights, so long as they remember to include appropriate terms elsewhere in the contract.

My contracts were for non-fiction, which is a different animal to fiction — most non-fiction authors are writing for small niche markets, unless they are lucky enough to be either famous, or writing about something with huge appeal, like cookery or self - improvement, so potential sales figures are tiny in comparison to the fiction market.

It weeds out fly - by - night e-presses that have a contract with PublishAmerica so that authors can see their books «in print» even though there is no distribution program connected to the print program.

Since Audio is so new to Harlequin, they are going to have to change the way author contracts work.

These are the reasons why so many indie authors have refused contracts offered by traditional publishers.

In addition to a. Providing me with the funding to be an indie author, it also b. Gives me benefits (so my teeth stay purty and I can get treatment if I contract some deadly disease) and c.

Presumably, HQN entered into its joint venture with Author Solutions as a way to make more money, so maybe there's an argument that * if * RWA was able to force HQN to break the contract with Author Solutions and * if * that resulted in a loss of prospective revenue and * if * that revenue was theoretically budgeted to keep book prices down...

Experienced authors will not sign a contract with a non-compete clause, and publishers aren't going to promise not to publish books that compete directly with the author's, so it's just a bad deal.

So, instead of addressing why Amazon should continue to carry Hachette books in the absence of a contract, we discover that books are not products and that the Authors Guild is morally opposed to the term «special snowflake.»

However the conditions of the contract was so one sided that i thought of publishing this as an Indie author.

This reminds me of another contract that is problematic: so - called «perpetual representation clause» in an author - agent contract, whereby the agent designates himself «the sole and exclusive agent with respect to the work for the life of the copyright.»

However, the Alliance of Independent Authors is going to be sorting out some template contracts at some point, so that may help if it isn't urgent.

Often an author's existing publisher will only need a sample of a forthcoming novel in order to offer on it (depending on the contract language), so I ask an author to prepare a synopsis and a few sample chapters.

Authors will be locked into a contract between two and five years and the publisher will set the book's price so high it places the book out of the competitive market.

Traditional publishers simply do not have the sales they once had, so the barriers to getting a contract to publish your book have been set so high that an unknown author has little hope of getting a book deal.

The publishing contracts for Hydra, Alibi, Loveswept, and Flirt, each representing different genre fiction, were so limiting to authors, it is downright insulting that they came from a big - name NYC publishing house.

So in May 2015 we launched the Authors Guild Fair Contract Initiative to take a fresh look at the standard book cContract Initiative to take a fresh look at the standard book contractcontract.

I'm so grateful to my RWA chapter for linking Scalzi's blog post in our yahoo group, and days later, Romance Writers of America contacted Random House to discuss the contracts (Loveswept and Flirt) to better inform the authors they represent.

I think the concern for authors is that the technology for ebooks basically didn't exist when she signed her publishing contracts, so why should they share in the profits?

Now so with the dying dinosaurs of print, who cling to book contracts and keep authors in poverty by never putting anything back in print.

These contracts were usually offered on a «take - it - or - leave - it» basis by larger entities who, recognizing their unequal baragining position, offered non-negotiable contracts (the very nature of a contract is that it should represent the negotiations of the parties) that sought to force their unreasonable terms on naive authors and novice publishers, so eager to be published and distributed that they skimmed by the small print.

They must be if they are paying most of their authors so poorly and saddling them with such bad terms and contracts.

Yet social media engagement has become so vital that many traditional publishing contracts now have clauses that require writers have author websites and... Continue Reading

Also, authors should be aware that working with newer publishers represents a business risk, because publishing houses have high failure rates — so make sure the contract contains appropriate protections for the author (including appropriate termination rights).

And within just months of that, she had a traditional publishing contract — the dream so many authors go into this with!

While Penguin is unlikely to pick up almost any of the authors publishing on Book Country and offer them traditional contracts (Authonomy has done so a few times), it is keeping these authors close and engaged with its brand and is turning them into an additional revenue stream.

Many authors are so happy to receive a contract that they sign without fully realising what rights they are giving up.

I understand feeling angry when you see traditional publishing as an industry that has exploited authors for so long with «appalling contracts and treatment they mete out to so many.»

Book pullers use publishers as free editing services by signing a contract, having their book edited, and then canceling the contract right before publication, when cover art has been designed, ads have been placed, the books may even have been printed already, so the author can self - publish their book.

Authors are angry at an industry that has exploited them for so long, not just in the ways David outlines above but in the appalling contracts and treatment they mete out to so many (another shocker crosses our desk each week at ALLi).

In fact, at least one author out there who went hybrid specifically licensed his audio rights before shopping the Big Five, so they couldn't take it in the contract.

And, why it's so difficult to get a contract with the large houses if you're a new author.

So the contract terms are very author - friendly in terms of royalties, rights reversals, and so fortSo the contract terms are very author - friendly in terms of royalties, rights reversals, and so fortso forth.

Poets can self - publish, of course, just like any other indie author, and they have done so for years, by contracting with press owners to print chapbooks of their work.

Here's a book that agent Jenny Bent recommended to us interns if we were thinking of becoming an agent, which I'm not, but I thought the book would be useful for the few authors who submit to small presses without an agent and to the authors with an agent so that they know what to look for in their contract.

Amazon, and later B&N and others, opened their doors to small presses and even authors themselves, giving us a way to get our work into the hands of readers without having to try to beat down the doors of traditional publishing (where it is now as hard, if not more so, to get an agent than it is a publishing contract).

So, in exchange for exclusive contracts, Amazon offered self - published authors tools like free promotions and the Kindle Countdown, which they believed (correctly) would help us sell our books.

Honestly, so do I. I'd love to see traditional publishers continue — with good author contracts and with an acknowledgement that they work in partnership with authors rather than believing that writers are necessary idiots.

Amazon does its free - lending - library thing because it wrote the rights to do so into its contracts with non-major publishers (and with authors who signed on directly with Amazon).

I have strong suspicions that lawyers are messing things up for publishers they are trying to be ever so clever by screwing authors in the contracts, but good authors just aren't that dumb, and the pool for the traditional publishers is getting smaller and smaller.

So they can have their star authors sign the boilerplate contract, permitting the publisher to say — almost truthfully — that they don't pay more than 15 % of cover price royalty on print or more than 25 % of net royalty on ebooks (among other things).

What always amazes me is why publishers still try to force authors into unfair contracts, when there are so many other options these days.