In addition to the specific terms the author and publisher have agreed upon for things like the type of book, the advance against royalty amount and the delivery date,
the standard book contract encompasses a lengthy number of clauses covering important points in a book's life cycle and an author's livelihood.
So in May 2015 we launched the Authors Guild Fair Contract Initiative to take a fresh look at
the standard book contract.
In addition to
the standard book contract, we'll also be identifying unreasonable provisions in self - publishing and freelance journalism agreements.
Two winning manuscripts receive US$ 1000 and publication by the University of Georgia Press under
a standard book contract.
The authors of the two winning manuscripts will receive US$ 1000 and publication by the University of Georgia Press under
a standard book contract.
The Initiative's fresh look at
standard book contracts has proven without doubt that provisions that would never be acceptable in other contexts have long been taken for granted in publishing agreements.
Not exact matches
One of the best examples ever of this comes from the the truly excellent band Van Halen, and why it included a clause banning brown M&M s from its phone
book - length
standard concert
contract in the 1980s.
A
standard trade
book goes for about $ 15.00 Your
standard contract - an author makes about 10 - 12 % per
book.
Caleb says that even with a $ 5
book, an author can make the same as with a
standard print
contract.
Times have changed in the
book world, but the «
standard» publishing
contract has not kept up with the times.
It looks like Amazon and HarperCollins are in the middle of
contract dispute for the Amazon.ca website and
standard Amazon procedure is to simply remove the ability for customers to purchase the Kindle
books.
Do you see the industry continuing to
contract in the Audible.com - style direction — i.e., DRM - obsessed, device - restricted, subscription - based — or do you think there's hope for guys like me, who just want to buy the
books they want in a
standard, non-DRM format?
But today's
standard contracts give authors just 25 % of the publisher's «net receipts» (more or less what the publisher collects from a
book sale) for e-
book royalties.
(I will under modern copyright law and
standard genre midlist
contracts, get my
book back in 35 years no matter what the
contract says.)
Not only are these new mid-listers selling a lot of
books, but they are also receiving significantly more money from each sale (the industry
standard is a 25 % royalty of net sales for e-
books under
contract by a big - six publisher).
But with the new 9th Circuit decision of electronic
books being a license instead of a sale, let us assume that number goes to 50 % which is a
standard license share in most
contracts.
In this
contract, an unsuspecting author is offered a «traditional publishing deal» — meaning the publisher pays the publishing costs and offers industry -
standard royalties on sales — but the
contract contains a «mandatory marketing agreement» (or addendum) that requires the author to pay the publisher (or an affiliated marketing company) thousands of dollars to market and advertise the author's
book.
Publishers and authors are shaping new
standard contracts as the industry shifts toward digital - first and e-original
book publishing.
With a «
standard»
contract (as if there is such a thing), you «earn out» that advance at a rate of 10 % of the price of a print
book, and 25 % of the publisher's net on an ebook.
The
standard legacy publisher
contract provides that the author gets 25 % of the net price of a digital
book.
Have ebook royalty rates become
standard in
book contracts?
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A term of a
standard form
book up
contract will be unfair if there is a significant imbalance in the trader's and the consumer's rights, the term is not reasonably necessary and it would cause harm or loss to the consumer.
HI there Different suppliers will have different accommodation
contracts as to how many people they allow in the rooms, I have done a search and can see that we can
book 2 adults 1 child of 15 and an infant of 1 in a
standard twin room so this is correct Regards
with a
standard contract PPA that was
booked after 8 days in January 2010.
More recently, Professor Ken Adams, Adjunct professor at Notre Dame Law School, through his blog, Adams on
Contract Drafting, his
book, A Manual of Style for
Contract Drafting (currently in its 3rd edition), and his many seminars, has been doing what he can to advance the cause of what he prefers to call drafting in «
standard English» (rather than «plain language» drafting).
And you have that, in the form of a
standard sales
contract (assuming you didn't steal the
book).