Re: Saxon Holt's advice on providing photos for a book

**A* Z* <a*@earthlink.net>**

Saxon:

Could you give some more information on how to embed metadata?  This  
is something I've wanted to research for a long time...

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,
Amy

On Feb 25, 2010, at 8:55 AM, gardenwriters-request@lists.ibiblio.org  
wrote:

> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:15:16 -0800
> From: Saxon Holt <sholt@saxonholt.com>
> Subject: Re: [GWL] Providing Photos for a Book
> To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
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>
> Doreen -   I have done many, many books with all sorts of contracts.
> I would urge you to look at the photos as an "expense" not counted
> against royalties so that you do not have to earn back their advance.
> As a package they may not go for that or they may reduce your royalty
> percentage, but if photography is a big part of the book it has high
> value and I woudl try to get that up front.
>
> Get a good idea of how many photos they expect to part of the book
> (50,100, 200) so you have a realistic idea of how to price it.  Don't
> give them a flat fee unless you are sure how many photos are
> required.  Pick  a dollar amount per photo, be it $5 or $500, that you
> will absolutely not go below (for your own self worth) and negotiate
> with yourself, before you talk to the publisher, as to what you would
> like to really ask the publisher.
>
> As an author you will expect to give them rights to market or
> serialize the photos and re-use them in the hoped for future editions
> without additional payment to you, but don't let them add a clause
> that they can use your photos in their other publications, even
> compilations, if the photos and text are reformatted to a new product.
>
> As an aside, and this is advice to anyone submitting digital files to
> publisher, be sure your photos have embedded metadata / copyright info
> and that the disk you submit to the publisher has a ReadMe simple text
> file that identifies the project.  The disk may sit around years after
> the project is done and you want to be sure there is some way to find
> you if there is some other use years later.
>
> Good luck.  Ask for lots of moolah for your photos.  If it is a photo
> driven book, they may be more valuable than the text (no offense...  
> <g>)
>
> Saxon
>
> Saxon Holt Photography
> - http://www.saxonholt.com
> 415-898-8880

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