Types of Publishing
Some Elements of Publishing Contracts

This next section is designed to do two things, the first is to compare the different types of publishing options. But because these options are so different from each other to truly do a head-to-head comparison takes introducing an equalizer. So, the major elements of the publishing contract was used to categorize the pros/cons of each publishing option.

Rights: Creative Rights

Length of Contract: Duration of the legal binding contract between the author and the publisher.

Author Warranties: what the author promises is true

Price: who sets the retail and wholesale price for the book

Royalties: how much and how often the author gets paid

Advance: can the author get paid early.

Distribution: how the book gets into the hands of the resellers

Initial print run: quantity of books

Shelf Life: length of the time the book is a viable retail commodity

Inventory: who keeps the books once they're printed

Options: who has the right of first refusal for the author's next book.

Marketing Obligations: who has to do what - when

Mistakes: who is responsible

Remaindered Books: what gets done with the leftovers that don't sell through the normal retail channels.

This is not a comprehensive list of the categories and sub-categories of a publishing contract, boilerplate publishing contracts are available all over the internet, take the time to download one and review it for yourself.

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