Any watermark or copy protection on this format?
Thanks,
Tory
On Feb 15, 2012, at 8:16 AM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote:
We've just finished a website to sell an eBook (Kindle or EPUB) for
an author in town, Josh Gonze, see the streetsofsantafe.com.
Visitors buy the ebook ($11.95) via PayPal and automatically receive
an email with a digital download link that's good for 2 days. This
digital self publishing approach avoids giving Amazon a chunk of the
sales price.
Hope this helps.
Thanks
Robert Cordingley
www.cirrillian.com
On 2/14/12 9:39 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Hi, everybody,
I have signed perhaps a dozen Publishers Agreements over my life
time and each one was more onerous, self-serving, and stupid than
the one before. My favorite was the publisher who asked me to
“hold the Publisher harmless for anything that might occur as a
consequence of the publishing of the work.” I asked a lawyer if
this meant I was liable if a printer got his hand caught in the
press while my book was running and he answered, “Well, probably
not.” And then he thought for a moment and said, “Oh, they’ld
never come after you for that!” Early contracts limited my
liability to the income from royalties, and one publisher actually
provided authors’ insurance for a modest premium. But no more.
Well today, I got an author’s contract for a paper I am contributed
to an academic collection that asked me to warrant that the work
had been commissioned by the publisher and was “work for hire”.
Now, work for hire means that one’s surrenders ALL rights to the
work including the right to claim it as one’s own work. It’s the
kind of contract you sign when you write jacket copy for a
publisher. ( The publisher in this case was Oxford University
Press, in case any of you are thinking of doing business with
them.) I am a wishy washy fellow, but somehow I could not sign a
document that said that my original work was “work for hire.”
Couldn’t do it.
It’s too late for this work. I will have to sign the rights over
to my [young] collaborator, because she desperately needs the paper
for her career. But MAN! It got me to thinking. WHAT ABOUT self
publishing. With, say, Amazon” Does anybody on the list have any
experience with Amazon or other self publishing services that they
would like to share?
My Dad was a book publisher, and I grew up with conversations
around the dinner table about “developing authors” and trying to
find new authors, and how a few books might have to be published
before a new author caught on. They published Churchill’s Memoires
and Mein Kampf (!) and the Peterson Field Guides, among many
others. Now, it seems, publishers do very little, and academic
publishers, in particular, do nothing but scavenge off the fetid
bits coughed up the publish or perish system. Is is it time to dump
them? I am sure this is a party I am late to. Where do I get
invited.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org
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