Publishing contracts

The shadow chancellor's new book has come under scrutiny for lifting passages of text from other sources without acknowledgment. Academic writers explore how this can happen

I‘ve just signed a publishing contract with Ben Fenton, a Fleet Street veteran and director for creative industries at Edelman. His book is on the concept and practicalities of fairness-and that concept's history, science, law, politics, and morality, as well as an explanation of the number 42.

My independent press Mensch Publishing is to release it in March 2021, all going well.  Read more

Agents are under increasing pressure from the big corporates to make world rights deals - not because those publishers are suddenly more expert or passionate than we in rights selling - but because the corporate strategy is to spread their risk and to aggregate their profits and losses across multiple territories and activities.  Read more

The Authors Guild has outlined some of the "egregious terms" of current contract boilerplates it plans to address in its Fair Contract Initiative, first announced May 28 during BookExpo AmericaBookExpo America, commonly referred to within the book publishing industry as BEA. The largest annual book trade fair in the United States.