Sentences with phrase «electronic books right»

Amazon said Thursday it has signed a deal for the electronic books rights to all seven Harry Potter titles English, French, Italian, German and Spanish for its Kindle lending library.

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Initiatives like automatic voter registration, electronic poll books, flexibility to change parties, and parolee voting rights are pivotal upgrades to our current system of elections administration that can not be ignored.

The Writers Legal Guide, 4th Edition by Tad Crawford and Kay Murray (2013) Provides extensive information on copyright, limitations on free expression, book contracts, electronic rights, agency agreements, taxes, and estate planning.

that Hugh»... achieved a feat few traditional authors have... inked a print - only contract with major publishers and retained the electronic rights to his own books (meaning all of his Amazon ebook sales are still his own).»

Mr. Howey inked a print - only contract with major publishers and retained the electronic rights to his own books (meaning all of his Amazon ebook sales are still his own).

• Subrights — TV and film rights, foreign rights, reprint rights, audio rights, serialization rights, book club sales, online electronic rights.

Subsidiary rights secured by publisher: first serial (90 % author / 10 % publisher); second serial (50 % / 50 %), book club (50 % / 50 %), permissions (50 % / 50 %), other book publication (50 % / 50 %), British (80 % / 20 %), translation (75 % / 25 %), electronic (50 % / 50 %), audio (50 % / 50 %), paper products (50 % / 50 %)

If Dymocks posts an ebook for sale on its website, it will have done enough under the contract to earn its exclusive right to the work worldwide for the author's lifetime plus 70 years — and not just in book form: all subsidiary rights such as film, and other electronic forms are included.

If you screwed up and allowed the publisher to keep the electronic rights or POD rights, even selling only a few copies a year, you won't see any money ever again on this book besides dinner money every year.

In English - language book - contracts, it's almost always the case that countries where English isn't the native or official language are «open territory,» meaning that if a writer sells her English language rights in Canada and the US to Macmillan, and her UK / Australia / NZ / South African rights to Penguin, both Penguin and Macmillan are legally allowed to sell competing English print and electronic editions in Norway, Rwanda, India, China, and Russia.

Just specifically relating to library lending — under PLR (Public Lending Right) in the UK & Ireland (run by the British Library) authors (and collaborators e.g. narrators for audio etc.) are paid for * every * loan of their books (including electronic and audio).

Dohle further clarified: «Accordingly, Random House considers contracts that grant the exclusive right to publish «in book form» or «in any or all editions» to include the exclusive right to publish in electronic book publishing formats.»

The contract you signed gives them the right to change the terms of the deal any time they want, including how much they'll let you have of your sales money, and it gives them control over what price you can sell your books for in the entire electronic market.

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.»

Approximately in the middle of the electronic book on the right there is very confortable lever for browsing.The book has no slot for a SD - flash card.

In a message to members, they basically rejected RH's argument that its older contracts that grant rights to publish «in book form» or «in all editions» is a grant of electronic rights.

The electronic book market is booming right now, with Penguin, Harper Collins, Hachette, and other major publisher stating that digital revenue is up 25 % from 2011.

Kris again controls the rights to all seven of the Fey books and WMG Publishing will be reissuing them in both electronic format and trade paper editions right up to the day that Kris releases the new 8th book of the Fey, the first book in the Places of Power series next summer.

Keep in mind that electronic book adoption and sales abroad are easily 3 years behind what is going on in the U.S. Foreign publishers must be convinced to license rights to a digital - only title.

«For schools, eBooks come with different rights for different students, the books need to be accessible on school computers and on personal devices, and some electronic textbooks can be over two gigabytes each!

In possibly the largest self - publishing coup to date, J.K. Rowling, author and digital rights holder of all of the books in the Harry Potter series, will be releasing the electronic editions of her books and selling them through her new website, Pottermore.com, beginning with the first book in the series releasing in October and the next book being released in early 2012.

Download an electronic copy and get right to work on preparing your book for publication.

The symbolism of standing guard to prevent senseless damage to books is not lost on those of us who are reminded almost daily that our right to read is being threatened, either intentionally or not, by an abundance of entertaining electronic media, funding cuts to libraries and schools, even moronic, extremist book banning in our public education institutions by those who wield arbitrary power over curricula.

No matter how anyone fudges the numbers right now, paper is still way out ahead of electronic books and will be for years.

An e-book (short for electronic book, also written eBook or ebook) is an e-text that forms the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book, often protected with a digital rights management system.

That's right, any smart small company or self - published author can get books now into the distribution chains, both in electronic markets and paper book markets.

Right now authors are lucky to get 25 % of the net of what a publisher gets for electronic books.

Right now on Lulu, you can find great electronic children's books like OwlCat: The Cat Hoo Thought He was an Owl, Gunna's Adventures — Gunna Daydream, and Gino The Giant Slayer.

«The issue that may be holding back the digital market is the fact that publishers don't hold electronic rights to many of their titles and have not gone back to acquire them, said fellow panelist Marcin Garlinski, CEO of book publisher MUZA.

Photo: The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite electronic book reader (left) alongside the rival Sony eReader (right).

In the strange and mysterious world of the traditional commercial book business, an individual title can earn subsidiary income for the publisher, but only if they either control or have a percentage of the royalties from dramatic rights (film, tv, theater, radio), translation rights, book - club, paperback reprint, if the book is sold to another domestic publisher (rare these days), and of course from the new elephant in the living room: electronic rights.

SEATTLE — August 9, 2011 — Hagens Berman, a consumer rights class - action law firm, today announced it has filed a nationwide class - action lawsuit claiming that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and five of the nation's top publishers, including HarperCollins Publishers, a subsidiary of News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWSA), Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Group Inc., a subsidiary of Pearson PLC (NYSE: PSO) and Simon & Schuster Inc., a subsidiary of CBS (NYSE: CBS), illegally fix prices of electronic books, also known as e-books.

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.

I guess if every book was available in electronic format with no DRM [Digital Rights Management; the ability to choose on which devices you can read and share a book — Books Editor] for reasonable prices ($ 10 max for new / bestseller / omnibus, scaling downwards for popularity and value) it just wouldn't be worth the time, effort and risk to find, download, convert and load the book when the same thing could be accomplished with a single click on your Kindle.

For example, under what circumstances might a publisher or ebookstore have the right to revoke your license and deprive you from accessing a book on your electronic bookshelf?

Amazon, maker of the popular Kindle e-reader and one of the biggest book retailers in the country, will have the exclusive rights to sell electronic editions of «The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,» and a later work, «Principle - Centered Leadership.»

When viewing such material, the user might desire to navigate to or «turn» to the next page of an electronic book (e-book), and might perform an action, such as tilting the device or turning the user's head to the right...

For example, a user might tilt the device to the right to cause the electronic book reader to start turning pages of a book, and a user can press a button to indicate that the desired page is being displayed, signaling the device to stop paging through the e-book.

The worry they (legacy) seem to have is the electronic format «stealing» their print sales... I might have that wrong though... but that worry is also irrelevant as well because the sale of a book is the sale of a book... right?

I still think that dedicated e-book readers will be the primary way that people read electronic books in the future but the iPad has the potential to give Amazon a run for its money if Apple pulls it off the right way.

You grant us the additional right to use your manuscript and Ebook files for the purpose of improving and enhancing our systems for converting and distributing electronic books.

While this is true for non-DRM EPUB books (books without Digital Right Management), unfortunately, all major electronic booksellers implement some proprietary or third - party DRM scheme to copy - protect their EPUB books.

to transmit, duplicate and otherwise use (or cause others to reformat, transmit, duplicate or otherwise use) digital books through technical means and processes for the purpose of enabling BookRix to carry out any function it is entitled to pursuant to the foregoing described rights, including but not limited to caching of data in order to facilitate its display on any electronic device.

[6] Baen's electronic strategy is explained exhaustively in a series of «letters» or «essays» called The Prime Palaver by Baen Free Library «First Librarian» Eric Flint, but in a nutshell, emphasizes distribution of unencrypted digital versions of its works free of Digital Rights Management copy protection schemes through Baen Ebooks (formerly Webscriptions, which was not formally part of Baen Books, but in effect an independent e-publisher).

OverDrive lets you checkout library books and audio books right onto your computer or other electronic device.

You own your book and that gives you 100 % control over audio rights, electronic rights as well as book cover design, plot decisions and more.

I've been thinking of publishing my prayer books for teenagers with this company as I have now received back the electronic rights from the publisher.

Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) published «Digital Books and Your Rights,» a checklist for readers considering buying into the digital book marketplace.

An Indie Publishing Company means that Christine helps you publish your book (fiction, non-fiction, illustrated book...) and you keep all the rights to your work (the copyright, the ISBN) and you keep all your work — meaning all the electronic book files (for paper or ebook).

We have constructed the Readers» Bill of Rights for Digital Books as a set of guidelines that can be consulted when purchasing a digital book, a collection of electronic books, or an ebook reading deBooks as a set of guidelines that can be consulted when purchasing a digital book, a collection of electronic books, or an ebook reading debooks, or an ebook reading device.