Sentences with phrase «backlist rights»

I think it's great that traditionally published authors with their backlist rights can get their books out there again and possibly even attract new readers.

An author who is exclusively self - publishing new titles while trying to get backlist rights reverted from traditional publishers will be treated identically to an author choosing to be both self - published and traditionally published.

Hopefully ebook rights will be sold on a world wide English language basis in future, but I suspect the problems with backlist rights will take a while to sort out.

These authors ranged from the self - published to previously published authors who wrested their backlist rights away from legacy publishers for the chance to handle their own marketing, control their own retail prices, and earn 70 % royalties that allowed them to make as much per - unit on Kindle books priced under $ 5 as they had ever received from legacy publishers on print books priced five times as high.

That can be frustrating for authors whose backlist rights are being tied up.

And because I love my agent, I've kept her in the loop on my way of thinking and trying to find ways to keep her active when I get my backlist rights or explore how she can take advantage of any ebooks I may do on my own as a promo tool.

Like many genre fiction authors, I had a lot of backlist rights revert to me between 200 and 2010.

Some of you may not know this or realize the impact until you try and get your backlist rights back, only to realize your house can keep rolling their rights to your work for years.

Not exact matches

In addition, it's getting harder and harder for traditionally published authors to wrest their rights back from publishers, which is undoubtedly cutting down on the number of backlist titles being newly self - published.

Some of these decisions are the result of authors getting the eBook rights back for their backlist.

I can definitely say that SOME authors are making impressively good money self - publishing both new works and backlist books they've gotten the rights to.

These are backlist books and rights were acquired for the physical only,» Nurnberg said.

You will be able to get access to a number of New York Times bestselling novels, including — Wrong Bed, Right Guy by Katee Robert, Seducing Cinderella by Gina L. Maxwell, and The Marriage Bargain by Jennifer Probst, as well all backlist titles since the publisher's inception in July of 2011.

How does publishing / digitizing a backlist (if the author has regained the rights) fit into the non-compete clause?

I really wish I had a backlist of my own right now.

Joe the poster who mentioned POD is right — you should think about publishing your (rejected) backlist on POD, too.

And right now you are not exploring putting your backlist up electronically because someone else should do that for you.

I, like Joe, have a large backlist of titles, have had agents, several, and have published with maybe eight of the publishers in NYC and guess what - there are legitimate writers publishing ebooks every two hours right now and soon I hope to have every book I ever wrote — around fifty on ebooks.

Barry's digital backlist earns him very little per sale, is priced high, and if I'm reading the lengthy discussion on Konrath's blog right, doesn't matter because he hasn't earned out any of his advances yet.

Friends trying to go hybrid or get rights back for thier backlist or books that are out - of - print that they don't want to take a 25 % net ebook deal on and the big 5 is not letting them out.

Dohle's letter made clear the company's position that «the vast majority of [its] backlist contracts grant [Random House] the exclusive right to publish books in electronic formats, as well as more traditional physical formats.»

When Rebecca Moesta and I formed WordFire Press, it was merely an exercise to release the eBooks of my own out - of - print backlist, to which I had reacquired the rights.

Recently I've been acquiring the rights to my backlist and re-issuing them as ebooks.

They were traditional authors capitalizing on years of reverted rights to backlists and the reputation already built among fans for solid work.

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This has not only nearly eliminated the backlist for publishers, but it also means that almost any foreign rights or translation deal needs to be struck almost immediately after publication in Russia.

My opinion may change as all the industry shifts, but as of right now, the only way I'd buy a self - pubbed book is if I knew the person or if they were previously a traditionally pubbed author whose re-issuing their backlist.

Publishers are not overly concerned with digitizing their backlist titles right now, because there aren't enough sales to make it financially viable.

I think Oyster and Scribd are doing it right, and they have publisher support with bestsellers and backlist titles.

SEATTLE, WA — June 4, 2012—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Avalon Books today announced that Amazon Publishing has acquired the publication rights from Avalon Books to over 3,000 backlist titles predominantly in the Romance, Mystery and Western categories.

For the record, many «traditionally» published authors have reclaimed their rights and are republishing their backlists independently.

One laments that he would happily give up rights to two of his backlist in order to get two new books published.

Electronic rights to published works that you own but have never exercised; we can help you build a backlist of eBooks that complement your print editions.

Getting the licensing rights to images or to backlist titles to put them into an ebook is still a huge and expensive issue.»

This agreement comes on the heels of the announcement last month by The Random House Group that the Bond backlist was returning to its publishing roots in the UK, with Vintage Books (sister imprint of Jonathan Cape, the original publisher of Casino Royale) acquiring a ten - year license for exclusive rights to the Bond novels in the English language with the exception of North America.

Lucy Vanderbilt, group rights director for HarperCollins, said: «In the last year we've done a few major deals in China, including for David Walliams and for Judith Kerr's backlist.

But published authors are getting rights to their backlist, pushing out e-book versions and selling books, right?

This is the power of the backlist, which many authors who have been writing for years are now realizing as they get their rights back.

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Literary agencies have refused to sign e-rights deals for countless backlist books with traditional publishers, even though they and their clients, no doubt, see real benefits in having a single publisher handle the print and electronic rights to a book.

That's what I'm working on right now, my backlist.

(And right now you are not exploring putting your backlist up electronically because someone else like your agent should do that for you.)

You've got some of them looking at direct sales businesses, digitizing backlist ebooks that are not being digitized by publishers quickly enough, taking the rights and selling them direct to consumers, or through other retail channels.

I noticed a Tweet the other day that said: «Someone should write a properly informative article about turning backlisted titles whose rights have reverted to authors into ebooks».

(To be fair, a growing number of authors have realized the potential of e-book sales, and are now buying back the digital rights to their backlist or waiting until the rights revert to them, then self - publishing their backlist titles.)

So, in a nutshell, here's a step - by - step breakdown of how to turn your backlist book to which you retain rights into an ebook:

It puts them in a really strong position when it comes to winning ebook rights from Published Authors and ebook rights for the backlists of star authors.

I'm grateful every single day that I walked away from NY when I did — and that I own all rights to all 9 of my backlist books.

He must be right, because nine years later, the Baen Free Library now includes backlist titles from 43 authors, with more books and authors added every few months.

She said: «We believe 50 % is the right royalty rate and in most cases we are asking for 50 % on backlist titles.