Sentences with phrase «foreign rights»

My question is this: if I decide to move forward and work with one of them, should I offer foreign rights or remain the holder of all rights?
Now, I had never placed the book there; I had no information about foreign rights from my former publisher with a delightful email or letter saying that rights had been sold to France, Belgium, Germany or anything connected with the UK — in fact, I never got a dime from the publisher for any foreign right sales (typically an author would get 50 %)... but golly, here my book was with a new cover, the same title and yes, my name was clearly on the cover and available in those countries.
Agents could have a strong role in subrights such as audio (although Audible's ACX program is a no - brainer), foreign rights, print rights and distribution, media, and gaming.
Columbine Communications & Publications looks forward to collaborating in foreign rights with publishers and agents worldwide who seek licensing rights to our extraordinary non-fiction titles.
The agent's argument was mainly focused on the distribution they can get you as well as selling your foreign rights at better deals than an indie - author could get.
Her goal is not only to sell books, but to also build long and ever - growing careers for her clients, giving each of them close and thorough attention as well as being an advocate in all aspects of the publishing process, including licensing foreign rights, audio rights, dramatic rights and more.
However, she did agree that agents could probably get you better deals with foreign rights but the biggest markets are still English language so most indie's can still do very well without an agent in this area!
It's rare for an American author to sell directly to a U.K. publisher, since hardly any U.S. agent can negotiate a contract where anyone but the publisher sells any foreign rights.
To contact regarding foreign rights, email her at [email protected].
So, for example, when we published Dead Rich (Louise Fennell's debut), which was one of our original books, we also were able to sell the foreign rights.
Columbine Communications & Publications now focuses entirely on foreign rights.
With more than a half - century successful book publishing industry experience, our foreign rights focus is in the following categories;
Caroline began her publishing career as an editor and ghost writer before she found her way into foreign rights.
Before I go on, I'm not discussing selling your foreign rights, that's a completely different issue which I'll discuss next week.
And because of my American deal, my foreign rights agent, Danny Baror, was able to sell The Ark to eighteen foreign markets and counting.
Lisa Erbach Vance joined the Aaron Priest Literary Agency in 1993 as Director of Foreign Rights for Aaron Priest and began representing her own clients shortly thereafter.
Publishers may be reluctant to sell foreign rights to China Mobile, as it takes a huge cut of sales — at least 50 percent and sometimes as much as 70 percent — and sells the ebooks at a 90 percent discount from the print price.
I found it very informative, particularly the information about foreign rights on books for translation.
We invite you to tour our web site to learn more about us and our services to the North American publishers and authors whose books we represent and the international publishers and agents interested in foreign rights.
For instance, audio usually ends up comprising about ten percent of an author's overall business, and foreign rights often comprise about a third.
Our foreign language sales are handled by the UK's leading foreign rights team at Intercontinental Literary Agency (ILA).
We welcome your calls and questions and the opportunity to continue to offer you our professional foreign rights services.»
A note about agents and keeping them around: foreign rights.
For inquiries regarding foreign rights, please contact Caroline Acebo at [email protected].
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But I have never used an agent in the U.S. for any of my foreign rights deals.
«I've learned so much about publishing and foreign rights as Bob's 24 hour «on call» assistant», says Dottie Erdmann.
During the Fair we met with close to 60 foreign rights agents and publishers.
After that it was on to foreign rights opportunities, promo ideas like the super cool Bublish and exploring new startups like Openbooks.com and Publisher's Weekly's booklife.com.
Many agents have relationships with literary agencies overseas; if your publisher doesn't control foreign rights to your books and you do, your agent will send copies of your books to their foreign agencies in countries they think would like your work.
That includes foreign rights.
This afternoon, Jeff Davidson stats to deep - dive the foreign rights market.
NK: Well, it wasn't so much a jump as an evolution with so many factors:) When my co-author Emma McLaughlin and I started publishing fiction in 2002 it was easier to sell enough primary and foreign rights that two people could split the revenue from one book and live in New York City.
FOREIGN AND TRANSLATION RIGHTS We are pleased to work exclusively with Taryn Fagerness Agency for translation and foreign rights, please contact: Taryn Fagerness Agency 858-254-7711 [email protected] http://www.tarynfagernessagency.com
Connecting once a year in Frankfurt is special and these relationships are at the heart of how foreign rights deals get done.
HOWEVER, if your contract is limited to English language, the publisher can not sell foreign rights to anyone else without your permission and participation, including financially, because you own the foreign language rights.
She has worn many hats — she's published with major New York houses, then broke away and created her own imprint; has successfully published over 20 books and sold in excess of 1,000,000 copies; understands niche publishing and marketing; has created publicity campaigns for her own work that landed her on Oprah, Donahue, CNN and even grabbed a cover story in People magazine; she's penetrated the foreign rights market with her work in 16 countries to date; she has guided and coached many others from creation to completion of their work; she has created and chair several publishing conferences; and she has successfully turned several publishing disasters into successful outcomes for their authors.
So you know, you really have to look at those foreign rights.
Balance of your royalty account for each title (ie advances debited from it, and income from foreign rights, royalties or other rights» sales credited);
It's also sold audio rights and foreign rights to Germany and the Czech Republic.
Hi Jess, In general, foreign rights sales or translation rights are handled by your agent or publisher.
For doing nothing but writing a book, my foreign rights royalties exceed domestic sales many times over.
I would add to your «risk» list something that is more of a disadvantage: the chance for foreign rights sales is next to nothing with indie publishing.
Eventually, there is going to be an agent specializing in foreign rights sales who starts seeking out successful self publishers to offer representation for foreign rights sales.
Women's fiction author Maria Duffy (@mduffywriter) found both her voice and her agent on Twitter, and has since launched two books with Hachette Ireland and sold foreign rights to both Italy and Brazil.
If your name isn't well known and your publisher is energetic, you might be better off with the publisher marketing your foreign rights.
STATUS: The most frustrating morning with a foreign rights deal!
This includes translation, selling foreign rights, and marketing your book in other countries.
That said Joe M's point about foreign rights, not to mention potential movie rights and audio rights are what convinced me to go back.
Did you know that if you bundle audio / foreign rights in with your publishing deal that when they sell those rights you get whatever percentage of the sale that's in your contract and it's applied to your advance?
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