Q. My contract for a medical how-to book has a clause which grants me full cover approval. I designed the cover, which includes powerful back cover endorsements from prominent doctors. When it came out in paperback, a year after the first hardcover run, the publisher had changed all the cover endorsements to industry praise as…
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Can I sue my publisher? What about the company that bought foreign rights?
By Mark Levine on September 8, 2012 in cover, Foreign Rights, Lawsuits, Litigation, Subsidiary Rights
Do I have cover approval for the paperback edition of my hardcover book?
By Mark Levine on September 8, 2012 in Approval Rights, Author's Copies, cover, Format, Subsidiary Rights
Q. My contract grants me cover approval but the paperback publisher never sent me the cover to look at. It’s totally different from the dust jacket on the hardcover, which was fabulous. I’m told that paperback publishers have the right to design their own covers. Is that true? A. The contract between you and your…
