Unsorted
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Nebraska Center for Writers -
Jobs for Writers
Book Publishers
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AcqWeb -
Directory of Publishers and Vendors
Gerard Jones -
Everyone Who's Anyone in Adult Trade Publishing - entertaining site with an impressive list of agents' and publishers' contact information
Sal Towse -
Links to Publishers' Online Submission Guidelines
Literary Marketplace - $$$ fee for full publisher profile information
Publishers' Catalogue Home Page - >7K publishers world-wide by topic or location
Book Fair listings
Self-Publishing
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Frequently Asked Questions about the ISBN (International Standard Book Number)
Online Application for an ISBN Publisher Prefix
The ISSN (International Standard Serial Number)
Christopher Willitts - Go-Publish-Yourself.com
Bill Penrose -
Our Book Publishing Adventure
Dan Poynter -
Para Publishing
Writing-World -
Self-publishing Links
Marilyn and Tom Ross - Self Publishing Resources
Marilyn and Tom Ross -
Articles from the Rosses
Lars Eighner - What about self-publishing?
Publishing Central
Patricia J Bell / Cat's-paw Press -The Tool Shed - links
Samir Husni -
Magazine Startup FAQs
Thomas M. Sipos -
Self-Publishing: Is It For You?
Jill Paton Walsh & John Rowe Townsend -
Some Notes on Self-Publishing (1995)
WriteandPublishYourBook.com
E-Publishing
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Warren Adler - On Electronic Publishing
Warren Adler - The E-Book Has Arrived
Ed Howdershelt - E-publishing Considerations
Ed Howdershelt -
E-Publishing's Future
Lida Quillen -
Reputable, royalty paying, non-subsidy e-publishers
Writer Beware -
Electronic Publishing
Karen Weisner -
SF/F and Epublishing: An Out-of-this-World Match
Print-On-Demand Publishing
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dehanna bailee -
"For-a-fee" print-on-demand publisher database - very useful one-page chart
Pat Holt -
The "Revolution" in Print-On-Demand" - Pat tries to pitch PODs to Kepler's
Clea Saal -
An Incomplete Guide to Print-on-Demand Publishers
SFWA -
Print On Demand
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Legal & Contracts & Taxes
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Adler & Robin Books, Inc -
Problems with Publishers' Contracts
Adler & Robin Books, Inc -
Sample Author Collaboration Agreement
ASJA -
Publication & Contracts
ASJA -
Contracts Watch
The Authors Guild -
Legal Search Database
Bob Brooke -
Magazine Rights - One-time rights, all rights, &c.
A.J. Cataldo, Ph.D., CPA, CMA, - Deducting the Home Office
FindLaw.com
Ivan Hoffman, J.D. -
Helpful Articles for Writers and Publishers
Ivan Hoffman, J.D. -
The Ten Key Negotiating Points in an Author-Publisher Agreement
Ivan Hoffman, J.D. -
Royalty Calculations in Book Contracts
Ivan Hoffman, J.D. -
Co-author Issues in Book Contracts
Angela Hoy -
10 Ways To Make Deadbeats Pay Up ... Fast
Internet Law Library
Judith Kelman - Book Rights - foreign, audio, &c.
Alice Neff Lucan, Esq. - Legal information for newspapers publishing on-line
Nolo Press - The Home Office Tax Deduction
Debbie Ridpath Ohi - InkyGirl's Tax Tips and Resources For Freelance Writers (updated Mar 2007)
O'Reilly Media -
The Contract - and the explanation thereof
Timothy Perrin -
Publishing Contract Checklist
Laura Resnick -
Contracts: Top Ten Things to Negotiate and What's Not Worth Your Time
SFWA -
Model Contracts (and more!)
UConn - Model Agreement Addenda & Licenses
Dov Wisebrod - CataLaw - catalog of worldwide law resources
Copyright
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U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright Office -Register a literary copyright
Cornell -
Title 17 - Copyrights
US Copyright Office -
Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work
US Copyright Office - Search Copyright Records: Registrations and Documents
Stanford University Libraries -
Copyright and Fair Use
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) - On Copyright - testimony
Lloyd J. Jassin -Copylaw.com
Orson Scott Card - Rowling, Lexicon, and Oz
Lolly Gasaway -
When Do Works Pass Into The Public Domain?
Canadian
Department of Justice -
Canadian Copyright Law
Subscribe to
U.S. Copyright NewsNet
EFF -
DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) 1998
Brad Templeton -
10 Big Myths about copyright explained
US Copyright Office - Search - author, copyright holder, pseudonyms.
Chuck Rothman -
Copyrights and Meteorites
Benedict O'Mahoney - Copyright Website
Thomas G. Field, Jr. [Journal of Electronic Publishing] - Copyright in E-mail
Thomas G. Field, Jr. - Copyright in Written Work
Writers, Artists and Their Copyright Holders - Locating US Copyright Holders
Duke Law SchoolConference on the Public Domain - papers & background material
Australian Copyright Council
UK Intellectual Property Office - Copyright Links
NYU Law -
Links to sites covering copyright, IP and other concerns
Ivan Hoffman -
Copyright Transfers
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Agents
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Adler & Robin -
FAQ on Literary Agents and Publishing
Agent Query - "the largest most current searchable database of literary agents on the web—a treasure trove"
Agent Research & Evaluation
Agent Turnaround Times - LiveJournal Community
Association of Authors' Agents - UK
The Association of Authors' Representatives - USA
AuthorLink
A.C. Crispin & Victoria Strauss -
Writer Beware Blogs
Teresa Nielsen Hayden (Making Light) -
On the getting of agents
Durant Imboden - Literary Agents : a four-part series
Gerard Jones -
Everyone Who's Anyone in Adult Trade Publishing - entertaining site with an impressive list of agents' and publishers' contact information
Michael Larsen & Elizabeth Pomada -
3 Ways to Make Yourself Irresistible to Any Agent or Publisher
Literary Marketplace - $$$ fee for full agent profile information
National Writers Union - Caveat Scriptor: A Brief Guide to Researching Literary Agents
Nebraska Center for Writers - Literary Agents - articles/agents
Dan Perez - About Agents
Preditors and Editors - reports on publishers, agents and more
Publishers Marketplace
Chuck Rothman - Hunting for a Literary Agent
Robert J. Sawyer - Landing an agent
SFWA Writer Beware -
Warnings and Cautions for Writers on Agents
Speculations' Rumor Mill -Caveat Scrivener - Agents
John E. Stith -
Hunting for an Agent (with Sample Synopsis)
Victoria Strauss -
The Safest Way to Search for an Agent
Lawrence Watt-Evans -
HWA Agents FAQ
Writers' & Artists' Yearbook
WritersNet -
Literary Agents
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