Just released by TAA Press: ‘Guide to Textbook Publishing Contracts’
When it comes to negotiating your textbook publishing contract, you have more leverage than you think.
In this step-by-step guide by Stephen Gillen, a Partner at Wood Herron & Evans, you will learn the key provisions of a typical textbook contract and how to determine what’s important to you so that you can enter into the contract negotiation process better informed. Get the “better”, “best” and “better still” options you can consider when making decisions about what to negotiate.
As a bonus, we’ve included a list of 20 questions that you can employ to learn more about your publisher’s plans for, and expectations of, your work — information that will help you evaluate your leverage and your editor’s weaknesses. Buy your copy today.
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