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D Publishing announces a further update to its contract
Dymocks' new publishing arm D Publishing, launched late last year, has announced a further update to its author contract. Michael Allara, Dymocks general manger, ecommerce, confirmed the company had p...
Agents press for ebook 'escalation' clauses
Literary agents are increasingly asking publishers for 'escalation' clauses for ebook royalties, where the royalty percentage paid increases with the volume of sales.
HaperCollins US winds down audiobooks on CD; combines audio and digital rights
HarperCollins US is effectively discontinuing releasing audiobooks on CD, moving almost entirely to a download model. There has also been a change in boilerplate contracts that associates audio and di...
Cursor: 'a new business model for publishing'
Richard Nash (who'll be a keynote speaker at this year's ABA Conference) reveals the business model behind his new venture Cursor, including three-year contracts with authors....
Is it time to rethink publishing contracts?
In this opinion piece for Book Brunch, Trevor Dolby asks if our idea of what constitutes the 'standard publishing contract' is way out of date and out of step with reality.
'Morality clause' in children's book contracts
Concern is being expresses in children's writing circles in the UK about a new 'morality clause' being inserted into author contracts from Random House.
ASA to research educational publishing
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced that it has appointed a researcher to undertake a study into the Australian educational publishing sector, looking particularly at the returns to ...
Authors' concern about S&S contract change opens debate on digital rights
The issue of how authors, agents and publishers negotiate contracts for digital rights is coming to the fore. In the most recent example, author and agent bodies in the US have expressed concern ...
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