Re: university press rights assignment

["Richard Gottlieb" <rhg2@greyhouse.com>]

I agree with Karl's point. However understand that any revenues, 
for the publisher, directly attributable to your work in an 
electronic form will be so minimal that they would probably opt 
to drop/not include your work in whatever electronic package they 
are putting together. See Tassini effect. Your decision is 
probably best based on the prospective advantages of having the 
work disseminated more widely, and enhancing future publishing 
activity.

Dick Gottlieb
Grey House Publishing

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Bridges" <Karl.Bridges@uvm.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>; <"James J. O'Donnell"@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: university press rights assignment

> It's nice that they ask, but I can't see that you're obligated to
> go along.  You might note that there is no suggestion of any
> additional fees or royalties.  Before you agree to this let me
> ask you -- would you have written the book originally for free?
>
> Bottom line, the publisher signed a contract with you and that
> existing contract is binding.  It's unfortunate, for them, that
> they didn't anticipate electronic publishing, but that's hardly
> your problem.  Professional writers get paid. End of story.
>
> Karl Bridges
> University of Vermont