Posts Tagged ‘ royalty tracking ’

Students at Texas Tech University are learning the fundamentals of business management from Atlas Black.  Atlas is a 20-something, a bit of a slacker – and he’s a character in a comic book. Professor Jeremy Short co-wrote a series of graphic novels, which he’s been using instead of textbooks in his business classes, to...
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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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“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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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 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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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 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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