Writers and Editors

Mar 20, 2012 11:21 PM EDT

Pat, Could you add an RSS widget to your blog so that readers can have it fed into their iGoogle pages? I can't find one, or an email subscription widget either, and it's hard to remember to come back to a web page . . .

- Richard Gilbert

Mar 21, 2012 9:05 AM EDT

I'll see if I can figure out how to do so, Richard.So much to do, so little time!

- Pat McNees

Mar 23, 2012 4:32 AM EDT

Pat, it's not hard! You just have to find the little striped icon and enable it. If you can't, ask any kid or grad student who blogs and they can set it up in three seconds.(Pat responds: I did something. I'm not sure if it's a widget.)

- Richard Gilbert

Jun 14, 2010 6:24 AM EDT

One in Five Bloomberg Authors Received Royalties Based on Retail List Price, Says Wiley. Wiley's press release follows the AG response to it, which does the math, and makes the point an author should pay attention to with any publisher:"Bloomberg had no print on demand program. Authors would reasonably expect that if their books didn't sell enough to justify replenishing stock with a traditional print run, then the rights in the books would be revertible. Wiley's letter seeks not only to allow it to use print-on-demand technology to keep a work in print without negotiating a minimum sales threshold for a work to be deemed in print (as all literary agents and knowledgeable authors insist on), but it also seeks to do this at a royalty rate of 5% of net, the lowest such rate we've ever seen."

- pm

Jun 16, 2010 6:30 AM EDT

One in Five Bloomberg Authors Received Royalties Based on Retail List Price, Says Wiley (Authors Guild 6-14-10). Wiley Rejects Guild's Audit Proposal (Authors Guild 6-16-10)

- PM

Mar 08, 2018 10:31 AM EST

Claiming the Royalties You Deserve (Juli Saitz, Authors Guild, 2-28-18) "The imbalance in power between author and publisher often begins with the complexities of the publishing agreement. Unless an attorney is involved in that process, authors tend to accept the terms set forth in the publishing agreement as standard, without questioning specific terms."

- PM