Sentences with phrase «standard book contracts»

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.

The authors of the two winning manuscripts will receive US$ 1000 and publication by the University of Georgia Press under a standard book contract.

Two winning manuscripts receive US$ 1000 and publication by the University of Georgia Press under a standard book contract.

In addition to the standard book contract, we'll also be identifying unreasonable provisions in self - publishing and freelance journalism agreements.

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 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.

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).