Also in the discussions was the policy on
ebook licensing rights that allow libraries to retain ownership after purchasing a digital title for their catalogs through 3M, even if opting to select a competitor for ebooks later on.
Not exact matches
You hereby grant to Barnes & Noble, its distributors, licensees and partners a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable
right and
license to make your
eBooks available for sale, marketing, display, distribution and promotion in any commercially available electronic or digitized format or on any electronic device platform whether now existing or hereafter created or developed.
SEATTLE, Apr 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Ian Fleming Publications Ltd today announced that Amazon Publishing has acquired a ten - year
license for North American
rights to the entire list of James Bond books by Ian Fleming in print and
ebook.
RosettaBooks has
licensed the
ebook rights to Robert Graves, I Claudius and Claudius the God in the US.
This
license and your
right to use the
ebook terminate automatically if you violate any part of this Agreement.
PLR (Private Label
Rights) and MRR (Master Resell
Rights) can be sold and modified to the extent of
ebooks resell
license.
Because many publishers still
license ebook rights by territory the same as they've always
licensed print
rights.
When you get to the final tab in the KDP publishing process — Kindle
eBook Pricing — after Amazon tries to lure you into its fools - gold KDP Select program and asks you what territories you hold the distribution
rights for (in most cases, «All territories» — unless you've
licensed some away), there's a panel titled Royalty and Pricing — the cause of our anxiety.
The grant of
rights allows Amazon not just to publish and / or
license ebooks and audiobooks, but to «create condensed, adapted, abridged, interactive and enhanced editions of your Work, and include your Work in anthology or omnibus editions.»
The Monotype Imaging
eBook Font
License provides the necessary
licensing rights to embed fonts into
eBook products for commercial distribution.
An interesting idea I have seen around
licensing ebooks is unglue.it, still in alpha, where libraries contribute money, Kickstarter style, to buy creative commons
ebook rights by title (or group of titles).
As
ebooks are
licensed, not bought, the first - sale rule doesn't apply, at least under current legal precedent in the US, and so the owner of the
ebook wouldn't have the
right to put it into any store.
In stead of selling an
ebook (usage
license) it should really be some kind of rent agreement (like when you rent a library - book) if the publishers do not want to transfer any
rights / ownership to the buyers.
Sadly, the Authors Guild and publishers have successfully insisted that the
right to have a text read out loud is a separate feature that doesn't come routinely when you
license an
ebook, thus limiting the extent to which one key adaptive technology can be employed.
Among the many reasons Stallman gives for boycotting Amazon are that the company sells
ebooks and digital music that deprives customers of their
rights through restrictive
licensing, that the Amazon Kindle - or Swindle, as he calls it - uses proprietary software and contains backdoors through which Amazon can delete books and update software, that the company reportedly abuses its employees by making them work in sweatshops, and that it hurts independent bookstores, small publishers, and authors through its near - monopoly power.
Getting the
licensing rights to images or to backlist titles to put them into an
ebook is still a huge and expensive issue.»
While convenient, I don't actually own any of my
ebooks — I just have a
license to view them, and no
rights of first sale.
Ironically, this happens even when end users have full legal
rights to that sort of format - shifting; Alice in Wonderland, which is in the public domain, and Lawrence Lessig's Creative - Commons -
licensed ebook Remix have both had publishers disable their read - aloud feature.
By submitting the Work to
eBook Architects, you hereby grant to
eBook Architects the royalty - free, worldwide
right and
license to review your Work for the sole purpose of providing a quote to You for the Services (the Quote License), which you have the right to accept or
license to review your Work for the sole purpose of providing a quote to You for the Services (the Quote
License), which you have the right to accept or
License), which you have the
right to accept or reject.
However, please note that in many cases the
license will additionally require that the
eBook be encrypted with Digital
Rights Management (DRM) of some kind to make the extraction and illegal use of the font file more difficult.
If we do a query on Google of a random text strings in your book (and yes, we do this to test the originality of your work), and we discover the same content under other author names, or associated with private label article (also called «Private Label
Rights or PLR») or
ebook licensing systems, your account will be closed without warning and all earnings will be forfeited, per the Terms of Service.
Then in 2010,
ebooks slid over to primary
rights, meaning a deal was non-negotiable if the publisher could not
license at least
ebook and print
rights.
For
ebooks, the publisher in its contract shall replace the traditional «out of print» clause that triggers a
rights reversion with a sales volume clause and / or a finite term of
license.