What do publishers charge for foreign rights? The only deals you ever hear about, and read about in PW and Bookseller, are those concerning Big Name authors.
As far as I know the amount charged depends on how large the targeting market is.
I don't know. Which is to say, the amount charged is going to differ from book to book depending, as you say, upon how "big" the author is in the country for which foreign rights are being sought. I've heard as little as 3,000 US for, say, German Rights, but have also heard of a whole lot more. My guess? Probably between 2-3K if the books have not sold foreign rights right out of the gate. But in this? I've got very little experience, and word-of-mouth from other writers; I've only sold shorts, and not novels, in the foreign market, because my books are about 2 times longer than they should be :/.
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Re: Foreign Rights
Date: 2004-09-16 08:47 pm (UTC)As far as I know the amount charged depends on how large the targeting market is.
I don't know. Which is to say, the amount charged is going to differ from book to book depending, as you say, upon how "big" the author is in the country for which foreign rights are being sought. I've heard as little as 3,000 US for, say, German Rights, but have also heard of a whole lot more. My guess? Probably between 2-3K if the books have not sold foreign rights right out of the gate. But in this? I've got very little experience, and word-of-mouth from other writers; I've only sold shorts, and not novels, in the foreign market, because my books are about 2 times longer than they should be :/.