Should e-book royalties be the same as print book royalties? It’s an ongoing argument. Here is an interesting perspective from the Bookseller: Schnittman defends e-book royalties and rebuts SoA attack | theBookseller.com. From a publisher’s perspective, royalties will get more sophisticated as new formats and digital content proliferates. Solid royalty software will be an...
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UK Society of Authors Blasts EBook Royalty Models
“The chair of the Society of Authors, Tom Holland, has hit out at publishers’ attempt to seize control over electronic rights, calling ebook deals that lock authors in for the duration of copyright “not remotely fair”.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/12/ebooks-publishing-deals-fair
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BEA Conference Session: Rights, Royalties & Retailers: What Works?
Rights, Royalties & Retailers: What Works? Wednesday, May 26, 2010 11:00AM – 12:00PM Location: Room 1E03 Read any news surrounding the agency model, iPad, or Amazon, and one can easily conclude why rights standardization is so crucial today. The pie is only so big, and everybody wants a piece of it. Ebooks supplied the...
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Royalty Software: The Importance of Standard Sales Files for Royalty Software
Royalty management is a pure cost center for publishers, and a mission-critical one at that. Fortunately, it is possible to substantially reduce the administrative time required to manage royalties through effective use of royalty software, and through efficient processes. One of the time consuming tasks for smaller publishers is managing the sales data coming...
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BISG Rights Committee: Latest News
The BISG Rights Committee is making steady progress towards creating a standard for communicating rights information and transactions. As a bit of background, there are currently no standards for communicating rights and the related royalty bearing sales. This lack of a standard hinders the commerce of these rights. By creating this standard, it will...
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BISAC BRR Standards Presentation
BISAC Presentation – Work So Far The above link points to the presentation used at the September 2009 BISAC meeting to introduce the proposal for a rights and royalties working committee to BISAC.
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Revised Digital Sales Reporting Standard
Great to see the Digital Sales Reporting Standard revived: Revised Digital Sales Reporting standard. Royalty Software Royalty Payments Royalty Accounting
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Tech Watch Article: Should Google Be Allowed to Monopolize “Orphan” Books?
“One possible outcome: Google may be asked to pay $125 million towards the establishment of a Book Rights Registry that would store and register the names and locations of book copyright owners. For that public service, they’d be allowed …” http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/chris-dannen/techwatch/should-google-be-allowed-monopolize-orphan-books Royalty Software Royalty Payments Royalty Accounting
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Scrutiny of Google Settlement Warrants Watching
Watch out for the Justice Dept in the Google Settlement.
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Google Book Settlement; Why the BRR Is Needed
Soapbox: The Rights Thing Why the Book Rights Registry is necessary by David Marlin — Publishers Weekly, 6/22/2009 I spend my days steeped in rights, royalties and the contracts that govern them, and this much is clear: publishers must plan new approaches to rights or risk future viability. Regardless of how the courts or...
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