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October 11, 2009

The International Digital Rights Mess (or Amazon’s Cock Up)

JaneEbooks / Features / Letters of Opinionauthor-rights / digital rights management33 Comments

Over the past year, as more and more readers have become interested in ebooks, we’ve begun to realize one of the biggest problems is the mess of territorial rights. We had Fictionwise and BooksonBoard removing books from its bookstore. Fictionwise went so far as removing access to books that people ... more >

August 25, 2008

Aspiring Author Attempts Own Auction

JanePublishing Newsauthor-rights / Deals / eBay13 Comments

An enterprising author offers up his book for auction on eBay. The auction, entitled “Offering the Rights to My Book” starts with a bid of $5,000.00 and free shipping. The book has apparently already been sold to a publisher and is set to be published this coming month (September), but ... more >

August 11, 2008

What’s Appropriate for Public Consumption

JanePublishing NewsAuthor Issues / author-rights3 Comments

GalleyCat had an interesting article regarding a contretemps involving author Michael Cisco and his publisher Prime Books. Prime Books is a small print publisher of science fiction,fantasy and horror fiction. Cisco complained that he hadn’t received any royalties from his last book. He determined from watching the traffic on Amazon ... more >

May 30, 2008

Yaoi/Manga Publishing Issues: Iris Print and Tokyo Pop

JaneMangaauthor-rights / Bankruptcy / Publishers-Behaving-Badly / Tokyo-Pop20 Comments

I received two publisher alerts and want to share them with the community. One relates to a Yaoi publisher closing shop and the second is Tokyo Pop’s Manga Pilot draconian contract. Iris Print: Iris Print is a Yaoi publisher who apparently closed up shop and failed to tell its authors. ... more >

June 4, 2007

Simon & Schuster Agrees that You Can Leave Them without Getting a Restraining Order

JanePublishing Newsauthor-rights / Simon & Schuster7 Comments

Two weeks ago I blogged about how Simon & Schuster was treating authors like abusive husbands: giving authors poor treatment but leaving them too broken to actually leave. Now it appears that S&S is going to kiss and makeup. The publishers are all grumbling at S&S for giving in so ... more >

May 22, 2007

Why You, the Reader, Should Care About S&S’s Contract Changes

JaneLetters of Opinionauthor-rights / Intellectual Property Issues / Royalties / Simon & Schuster19 Comments

Sometimes I’ll blog about information that seems to be directed straight at writers and I wonder if some readers think to themselves, but this isn’t for us. It doesn’t affect us. Aren’t you guys a readers’ blog? We are, but sometimes industry changes have a great affect on we, the ... more >

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