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Podcast: Google Book Settlement at WFC
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
At World Fantasy there was a one-hour panel on the Google Book Settlement with Russell Davis, Karen Wester Newton, Charles Petit, Jay Lake, Christopher Kastensmidt, and Dan Gamber moderating. Though all agreed that the panel was too short it covered some good ground.
Sorry you missed it? Not to fear, Rick Kleffel’s Agony Column has the full podcast of it.
Here’s what the website/little book had to say about this (death) panel:
“The Google Books Settlement has caused worldwide controversy and will have a marked effect on every author and publisher. Hear various viewpoints on this issue.”
It’s sort of like saying, “Well, you can throw this match in that pool of gasoline, but there might be some side effects.”
Animated does not do this panel justice. So, let me say, up front, that, whatever they’re paying Russell Davis for being the Prez of Sifwa (Science Fiction Writers of America): It ain’t enough. It ain’t nearly enough. That guy is a rockin’ firebrand, folks and if you doubt my words, well …
Click through to read the rest of his review of the panel or follow this link to the MP3 of the full panel.
Tags: c.e. petit, Christopher Kastensmidt, Dan Gamber, Google Book Settlement, Jay Lake, Karen Wester Newton, podcast, Russell Davis
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Intro to Publishing Contracts
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
This 34 page .pdf document by Sean P. Fodera and C. E. Petit provides an overview to publishing contracts.
Publishing contracts are, as a rule, neither well organized nor well written. Related, but critical, provisions are often scattered in provisions from the front to the back, and a provision on page six will often negate or vastly modify a provision on page two. Further, there is no such thing as a “standard” contract that cuts across publishers, across types of books, or across much of anything.
We have organized this presentation thematically, rather than trying to perform a paragraph-by-paragraph dissection of a contract that may bear little resemblance to either a preexisting contract you might encounter or your (or your clients’) particular needs. In the appendices, you’ll find two representative publishing contracts. Materials from the morning session include more publishing contracts and clauses, and comparing all of the materials should be educational—if all too often frustrating.
Tags: c.e. petit, contracts, Publishing, sean p. fodera
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