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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“They gave with one hand and took away with the other,” Kirsch says, by agreeing to a higher percentage rate in exchange for essentially passing production costs on to the author. “The publisher’s argument is a very simple [one]: We’re in a brave new world, and we don’t know how this will shake out. So we’re not going to take a financial risk on the old royalty model, which would essentially be ‘off the top’ without any recoup for the cost of goods.”
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