SPECIAL REPORT #1:
Hot Button Issues
in E-Publishing Contracts
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Hot Button Issues in E-Publishing Contracts
Get the inside information on E-publishing contracts and their unique problems and challenges in this special report "Hot Button Issues in E-Publishing Contracts." This 23-page report provides contract language and detailed explanations of specific contract issues. Essential for any author. A must for e-book publishers.

CONTENTS:
Protecting Your Rights: The Standard Publishing Contract
Grant of Rights

English Language Print Publishing
Foreign Language
Hardcover and Softcover
Dramatization
Adaptation, Abridgment and Anthology
Audio
Commercial and Merchandising
Electronic

So What Rights do I Transfer to the Publisher?
The Truth About Copyright
Out of Print
Non-Compete (or How to Kill Your Career)
Literary Agents (or The Contract Watchdogs)
Further Reading

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In Publishing Economics 101, you get information about the costs and issues involved in print and e-book publishing. Topics include "Pre-Production Costs," "Procution Costs," "What is the Price of an E-Book?" and "After an E-Book is Published."

Excerpts from Hot Button Issues in E-Publishing Contracts:

"The essence of a publishing agreement is this: You own the rights to the work you created (or will create) and you are granting to the publisher some or all of the rights to that work in exchange for money. This is how content creators (that´s language artists if you don´t mind) and business people get along. That means that if you don´t specifically say you´re selling something, it´s still yours."

"Sounds like the basis of a great partnership: The author will write it, the publisher sill create and sell it, and we all get rich--yippie! But wait. Just how capable is the publisher of creating and selling your work? Maybe its people are great at publishing e-books, but don´t know a thing about getting your book translated and published abroad. If you don´t notice that little problem, you´re apt to find yourself at a writer's convention where your friends are proudly displaying the Portuguese and Croation editions of their work, while you sit quietly with your English-language e-book on a CD-ROM."

"But the never-ending life of an e-book has a downside, too. While publishers may be able to endlessly make books available to the public, this means that they also endlessly retain the rights to those books. If a book never goes out of print, then the rights never revert to the author. There may be a point at which it's in the author´s interest to take the book elsewhere, revise it, or just sell it direct--from a personal Web site or other efforts."

Excerpts from Publishing Economics 101:

"It´s usually more expensive to do a good job than to do a poor job. With e-books, this is certainly true--especially in the pre-production stage. Originally, the job of turning a rough manuscript into a polished piece of literature fell to the publisher and its editors. In the electronic publishing world, we have many different publishing models."

"The obvious thing about electronic publishing is that it does not involve a physical product. Electronic publishing is pure information exchange with no dead trees. This has a huge impact on the publishing world, since publishing economics have always revolved around the printing process. Let´s take a closer look at how the process of putting ink on paper affects the cost of producing books and, consequently, the author´s compensation."

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About the author:
Christopher Van Buren began his career as a computer documentation writer and went on to become an editor at CompuSoft Publishing, one of the first computer book publishing companies in the United States. He was the Editor and Publisher of several "for-pay" newsletters, including The AppleWorks Journal and the Microsoft Works in Education Newsletter, co-published with Microsoft Corporation. Christopher also spent many years as a computer book author and has written over 15 books, including Using Excel for the Macintosh (Que),  The MacWorld Excel 5 Companion (IDG) and HTML Quick Reference (iUniverse).  More recently, Christopher was a literary agent for Waterside Productions, Inc. and represented a variety of books in the areas of computers, cooking, spirituality and general non-fiction.