Yes, the author does; how much depends on the split he negotiated with the publisher (which will be in clause 11, tomorrow night .) In a standard boilerplate, it's 50/50 -- 50% for your publisher and 50%against your advance.
So unless the publisher is really marketing your book abroad you are better off trying to sell it yourself, or at least let your agent do it for you, or? But trying to sell foreign rights most be like trying to get your book published all over again. Only the competition is even more fierece.
I think that US publishers would like to be able to do this as well. Does it affect the sales of the book? For mine, there's no place to split them in three, so it would have to be pretty arbitrary, for instance.
I bet they would Most of the publishers in Sweden believe that fantasy is a dead genre these days, which means that we only have a few houses publishing fantasy. I doubt there are more than 20 books published every year, which means that those who do not read in english pretty much buys everything that is published. But you constantly hear people complaining about it, but people still buy the books. Most publishers try to find good places to cut the book, but it is not always succesfull.
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Re: Foreign Rights
Date: 2004-09-18 04:45 am (UTC)So unless the publisher is really marketing your book abroad you are better off trying to sell it yourself, or at least let your agent do it for you, or? But trying to sell foreign rights most be like trying to get your book published all over again. Only the competition is even more fierece.
I think that US publishers would like to be able to do this as well. Does it affect the sales of the book? For mine, there's no place to split them in three, so it would have to be pretty arbitrary, for instance.
I bet they would Most of the publishers in Sweden believe that fantasy is a dead genre these days, which means that we only have a few houses publishing fantasy. I doubt there are more than 20 books published every year, which means that those who do not read in english pretty much buys everything that is published. But you constantly hear people complaining about it, but people still buy the books. Most publishers try to find good places to cut the book, but it is not always succesfull.