Q. The contract for my new nonfiction book has a revision clause that says that if I don’t revise the book, the publisher can choose the reviser and pay the person from amounts that would otherwise be paid to me under my contract. This seems pretty broad since it means the reviser can get everything…
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Can my publisher cheat me of my royalties by selling my book through its subsidiaries?
By Mark Levine on August 20, 2012 in Affiliates, Definitions, E-Books, Electronic Rights, Royalties, Textbooks
Q. Royalties on two textbooks I wrote are being watered down because my 1980s contracts didn’t anticipate sales of e-textbooks or rentals of my textbooks in regular and digital formats. More importantly, the contracts didn’t anticipate that my publisher would own or control the companies that handle its digital and rental copies. As a result,…
