Sentences with phrase «rights to the book»

So the publisher is trying to get most rights to your book for your life, your kid's life, and into the old age of your great - grand kids.

There are rights agents, too, who will buy rights to a book in one place, and sell them for a higher price in another.

It is essential that you understand each of these clauses — does a publisher need worldwide or digital rights to your book if they are not in a position to sell them on?

Is there a better way to buy the audio rights to a book currently in print?

The completed work along with the proposal from the author will then be reviewed by the company which then decides to either buy the publishing rights to the book or reject it.

A book publisher has no business owning the movies rights to your book!

You also own all the foreign language translation rights to your book.

If you're the author and you know that you or your agent retained your audio rights when a publisher acquired print rights to your book, you may be good to go.

And so, having exclusive rights to books makes it that much more compelling.

Typically, traditionally published authors do not own foreign language rights to their book.

What about the movie or TV rights to a book?

Or perhaps you've retained e-book rights to books already published in print?

-LSB-...] to buy eBook rights to books that exist only in printed form.

Some subsidy publishers will require that you sign over certain rights to your book, the price determination, or control of certain elements of your design.

I typically take world rights to my books because the authors know I am their best chance of being published anywhere.

However, determining if an author or publisher owns legal rights to a book is easier said than done.

If you are a self - published author, you have the global rights to your book.

Even if you get full rights to the book cover, you should let the artist have the right to post the image on their website (s) to promote their work.

It's not hard to see how someone else owning the sales rights to your book could cause big problems.

Should my publisher control the merchandising rights to my books?

You can even provide a link right to your book's product page and save your readers from searching.

Because you own total rights to your book you can market it online, print it on demand, and keep the title alive and available for purchase.

Readers buy access to the library; they do not buy the books nor acquire any property rights to the books.

We also do not have archival rights to the books we have paid for, even if a vendor goes out of business.

I was told initially — in 2009, and again this year, that I had full digital rights to my book.

And so I would then buy that from you and you would retain all of the other rights, audio rights to your book.

They were told that if they refused the publisher would sell rights to their books on but they'd see no more royalties from the deal.

Another one of my biggest reasons for self - publishing is that I get to control and sell the foreign rights to my books.

If you own the ebook rights to your books, you can sell them from your own website, too.

Even if they had some legal right to the book, that right would not justify breaking and entering, legally or morally.

Singh acquired film rights to the book in 1996 when it was published, and now the film has come to fruition.

Potential Loss of Ownership Rights and Profits: Depending on the contract terms, it's possible that the vanity press actually acquires rights to your book, so any profits from books sold go to them and not to you.

Not only is the author signing over rights to their book for a period of time, they are also giving up the majority of any moneys that might come in from sales of the book.

Partnering with Certa Publishing offers the benefits of traditional small press» knowledge and resources, while providing authors with full rights to their book at the end of the process.

If the Press holds rights to your book, it will be listed in a «forthcoming titles» newsletter which is sent to subsidiary rights clients including publications that may be interested in excerpts, as well as agents and foreign publishers.

Apart from South Africa, where some of the Big Five publishers have local branches, the few traditional publishers in Africa tend to prefer buying rights to books that have already sold in the West, instead of risking their meager funds by investing in unknown local talents.»

The knowledge that I would retain rights to my book, maintain control of the content of my book, that the use of paper would be minimal in the publishing process, and that the speed of publishing would be faster compared with a traditional publishing contract, was convincing.

I don't like their royalty rates, and I really don't like those royalty rates coupled with «in print» clauses that will keep rights to the book in the publisher's hands for the rest of my life.

Cooper's production company acquired the big - screen rights to the book in May 2012.

It also serves as the exclusive retailer of the Harry Potter ebooks, as Rowling originally retained all future digital rights to the books when they were first published in print.

Judging from your experience with your former NYC agency, demanding an audit might be a way to shake a publisher and get rights to a book reverted!

Let's just forget it and get right to the books then...

To increase authors» revenue flow, one of the approaches he suggests is to sell the foreign language distribution rights to their books.

This deal, brokered to release titles over a three year period, will include the full - color print titles but also the digital and international rights to the books.

In traditional publishing, the publishing rights to a book often revert to the author once the book is out of print.

Instead of seeing why we should be embracing the old ways, I want to know what he's doing to prevent publishers from trying to grab rights to a book for the length of copyright without any out clause.