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This is indeed a contract issue, and it is a
small one that authors can usually win out on-a win-win situation too, if
publishers want their authors out there hustling their books....which of
course they do.
In my contract on Allergy-Free Gardening (and also on my next book to be
published with Ten Speed Press--Safe Sex in the Garden) I get a 50% discount
on any books I buy AND I get royalties on the ones I buy, too. Really, I only
think this is fair.
Tom
I never realized (and the publisher of my last book never
bothered to tell me) that I could buy
copies of my own book for half
price!
Is this _really_ true? Or did you just gloss over
it in the contract? In almost every book deal I'm familiar with, the terms and
conditions of books you can buy are clearly spelled out. In quite some detail.
For instance, many houses do not count books bought by the author as part of
the royalties bank. In other words, you buy, say, 50 books, earning the same
discount as a book dealer who buys that many. However, the 50 he buys pay you
a royalty. The 50 you buy do not.
The point is, that kind of deal is
clearly spelled out in the contract.
Brook
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