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How to Draft Publishing Contracts As a Small Publisher Beginning the Contract. Granting Rights to the Book. Identifying How Royalties are Calculated. Explaining the Author's Duties. Explaining Termination and Reversion of Rights. Protecting Yourself from Lawsuits. Finalizing the Contract.
A traditional publisher pays you, the author, for the right to publish your work, under certain terms and conditions. Hire a company to help you publish your book. There are thousands of publishing services out there, some cheap and some expensive.
A publishing contract is a legal contract between a publisher and a writer or author (or more than one), to publish original content by the writer(s) or author(s). This may involve a single written work, or a series of works.
Under standard royalties, an author gets roughly 20 to 30% of the publisher's revenue for a hardcover, 15% for a trade paperback, and 25% for an eBook. So, very roughly, every hardcover release that earns out brings the author something like 25% of all revenue earned by the publisher.
The path to publication generally requires authors to sign a publishing contract that covers such topics as: manuscript delivery and acceptance, copyright ownership and grants; royalty advances, rates and payment; author warranties and indemnities; contract duration and rights reversion (out-of-print); options on new