Re: Electronic Rights?

**D* G* <g*@gmail.com>**

Asking for e-rights is pretty standard stuff now.  E-rights means anything
and everything electronic - from ebooks to databases.  Many contracts can be
reworked so those are not exclusive (allowing you to exercise the e-rights
as well) or can be time-limited (although hard to police - once it's used
electronically in a database for example, the barn door is open and won't be
shut.)  And it depends whether there's an income split from those rights or
whether you're just giving them away as part of the deal.

If electrons are involved-that's an e-right.  So what you see now in the way
of electronic publishing is not necessarily where all the future income will
be (I'd be willing to bet on that long term).

Giving all rights in perpetuity, exclusive rights etc without timelines to
the publisher with no income split on the income from those rights is giving
away the future farm.

Whether you decide to do this of course depends on how lucrative that
contract really is. :-)  (But that's another subject for another day) :-)

D

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On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Rose Marie McGee <rmnicholsmcgee@comcast.net
> wrote:

> When a publisher refers to Electronic licensing rights and sends a
> reasonable sounding agreement is it established what that includes. Is it
> ebooks or ebooks plus the right to offer print on demand? As they say these
> are uncharted waters and I'd hate to have a book  considered forever  in
> print only because of print on demand and ebooks. Anyone else encountered
> this.
> Rose Marie Nichols McGee
> co-author McGee & Stuckey's The Bountiful Container
>
>
>
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