Tag Archive: e-Book rights

Apr 26

Random House Yields to Styron Estate on e-Book Rights

Tweet In a major e-book rights development that will have repercussions for many best-selling authors, The New York Times is reporting that Random House has ceded digital book rights to the Estate of William Styron for high profile titles such as “Sophie’s Choice”, “The Confessions of Nat Turner,” and “Darkness Visible.” The move contravenes the position staked …

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Jan 21

The e-Book Revolution Begins Now

Tweet Amazon.com announced  yesterday that it will  pay authors and publishers who use Amazon’s Kindle Digital Text Platform  up to 70% of the revenue from each Kindle book Amazon sells, net of delivery costs.  For authors and publishers accustomed to royalties in the range of 7 to 15 percent for physical books, this is an …

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