Publishing Your Work

Definition:

• Provides publisher with the right to either purchase or pass on the author's next work.

Consider the following:

• Does it stipulate that future works are offered the same contract? Or does it allow for the terms on future works to be negotiated at the time of submission?
• Does it require that the publisher decide whether to purchase future works within a set period of time following submission of the manuscript?
• Does it allow the author to refuse the publisher's offers on future works?

Sources:

"Understanding and Negotiating Book Publication Contracts" by Author's Alliance is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Evans-Walls, T. M. (2005). Literary law guide for authors : copyright, trademark, and contracts in plain language (2nd ed.). FYOS Entertainment.

Legal Disclaimer

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