It almost got away from me, but I caught up to the day after lunch.
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>World rights exclusive of the US and Canada
Yikes! That’s a very unusual foreign rights contract, though I did just get a contract addendum from a German publisher who was insisting upon this as well. I wonder if this is some kind of a new movement amoung european publishers.
They’re desperate. Their world is crashing around them, and they’re *DESPERATE* to get anything locked up they can. They don’t want to figure out what their actual strengths are, and negotiate based on *THOSE*. They’re facing something RedHat said they wanted to do to Microsoft – RedHat said something to the effect that they didn’t want to be 1% of a $6b OS market, but 60% of a $500M OS market. The independents would be happy to let the Big Publishers have their place in the system – but the Big Publishers want to *BE* the system, not just have a place in it.
Too bad.
Coming soon – the ratings markets. You think your book is good – you submit it, paying a non-refundable fee – and they rate it and publish their rating. Good ratings will help your book, bad ratings will hinder it some – lying about how good your rating was will get you shot down visciously. Think Underwriter’s Laboratories, or Consumer Reports.
The problem with Amazon Rankings is that they’re pretty much purely a popularity contest, and we all know from High School how valid those really are.