Amazon has launched a new tool for authors to create and sell digital textbooks. But there are questions about royalty rates on higher priced e-textbooks.
Amazon Appeals Directly to Hachette’s Authors
The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon has gone directly to authors ‘hoping to gain hearts and minds – and leverage’ in its dispute with Hachette.
Survey: Should US Translators Forgo Advance Fees for Royalties?
One suggestion to foster more translations in the US is to encourage translators to decline fees in favor of receiving royalties. Is this the preferable path?
Seeking More Respect for Translators and What They Do
Italian translator Cristina Vezzaro’s new blog, Authors & Translators, is campaigning for more respect for the work of literary translators.
A Self-Help Rights Guide for Independent Publishers
Petra Hardt, Foreign Rights Director at Berlin’s Suhrkamp Verlag, has written ‘Rights: Buying. Protecting. Selling’ to help publishers make the best choices.
SURVEY: What Is the Top Issue for Frankfurt 2011?
E-books, royalties, new business models? Take our survey and let us know what you think.
Publishers Need (Re)Education, So What Would You Teach?
How to monetize digital? Book discovery? Rights and royalties? Macro or micro, let us know what you think. By Edward Nawotka Education, as the cliche goes, never stops. Publishing is an evolving trade and profession, especially in the age of digital. Education or re-education for working publishers, such as those attending the Yale Publishing Course (discussed in today’s feature story), …
DISCUSS: Should Tweeters Be Compensated for Contributions to Books?
By Edward Nawotka Today’s feature looks at some of the copyright and compensation issues surrounding the publication of the book Tweets from Tahrir, a collection of tweets that has been collated, edited and expected to be published shortly by OR Books in the United States. The issue is complicated and has implications for how publishers will treat social media contributions …
The Future of Rights: Standards and Shared Metadata
By Emily Williams The paper book is an object of beauty and simplicity. This neat package has allowed books to conceal for many years the increasingly complex tangle of copyrights they each comprise: rights to text and images, limitations by territory and term of contract, restrictions on the reader. Then came the digital transition, books stripped off their paper packages, …
Bloomsbury UK’s Glee Video
By Alex Hippisley-Cox A video produced by Bloomsbury staff here in the UK has been taking publishing by storm this afternoon. The footage, which has been loaded onto YouTube, shows Executive Director Richard Charkin and various members of his London team dancing around the offices to the ‘Glee’ version of “Don’t Stop Believin”. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-YcGgImhIA As many in the publishing industry …