Negotiating Author Payments in the Digital Age
Author contracts no longer conform to a standard as alternative forms of publishing create new models of compensation.
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The emergence of Google Book Search and Amazon’s “Search Inside the Book” feature has helped to bring such issues to the foreground. These are non-revenue-generating uses of content that publishers and retailers consider promotional.
“Publishers want to be able to participate in these programs without having to pay royalties,” says Kirsch. “I have been in negotiations with authors who are not so comfortable with having a book online [that is searchable] for free. They want to specifically not give away that right.”
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