Sentences with phrase «authors contract boilerplate»

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They will do it, and an agent can help improve your contract — university presses» boilerplate contracts can be too one - sided, excessively favoring the publisher — but university presses are used to working directly with authors.

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).