Rights

This is a brief primer on how royalty tracking software can facilitate compliance with The Sarbanes Oxley Act.  Please note that your firm’s compliance may involve additional considerations; this article is intended to be a starting point for understanding how you can make Sarbanes Oxley compliance easier within your royalty management operations. For publishers...
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Technology hasn’t “killed the book,” but it has made the business of books far more complex.  The publishing industry is operating in an economy that may or may not be recovering, and simultaneously in a Brave New Technological World; there is both less economic wiggle-room, and an explosion in the number of ways a...
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All the News Affecting Rights, Royalties, Royalty Software, or Rights Management for September 7, 2010: A Four-Part Series on How Publishing Will Adapt, now that “the big stones have been moved” in technology, the short list for the Booker Prize, plus McMillan pushing for lower e-book royalties. Going “Deeper Than Just the Glow of...
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Might e-books force a wholesale re-thinking of the contract for books in all shapes and forms?  Emily Williams, co-chair of the BISG Rights Subcommittee, wrote last Friday on the uncertainties and issues in the future of e-books and copyright on Digital Book World.  From the publishing perspective, she writes: “Publishers are now strenuously making...
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Not surprisingly, e-book publishers have been in the vanguard of offering new terms to authors, often as a way of competing against established print houses. In a manifesto on his blog, Richard Nash, the former publisher of print indie Soft Skull, laid out his own version of the change principle: “The publishing industry is...
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Mark Nelson , Strategic Partner Manager at Google, will be interviewed live during Publishing Business VIRTUAL Conference & Expo Sept. 16 at 10:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m. ET The interview will focus on “Google Editions,” Google’s forthcoming service that will allow users to buy digital copies of books discovered through Google’s book search, and enable book...
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Cory Doctorow provided an update on his DRM negotiations on Boing Boing yesterday.  Excerpt below, and full text here. “My August Publishers Weekly column reports in on my experiment to see which of the major ebook stores would carry my books without DRM, and with a text disclaimer at the beginning that released readers...
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Emma House, Trade and International Director for the Publishers Association, recently attended the Beijing Book Fair, and reported on the proliferation of e-reader manufacturers, and the relatively few options for rights management.  She writes: “There are around 40 to 50 hardware manufacturers of ebook readers here in China. Unlike the Western markets, the Chinese...
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News that Random House had “won” its showdown with The Wylie Agency, over the inclusion of titles by RH authors in Wylie’s backlist digital publishing imprint Odyssey Editions, spread quickly through publishing circles last week, after joint statement released by Random House and Wylie. The statement said that Random House will now be the...
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Debate on how technology will impact the role of the literary agent is taking place at the annual GigaOM Pro Bunker Series. Particularly interesting from a rights and royalties perspective is the potential for disintermediation in publishing. “We publish a lot of….dreck. I’m actually really proud of that because it should not be the...
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