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I asked this on the original thread too but never got an answer, and I ask it again because I'm not familiar with how publishing works: If I submit a series of
by personjerry 11y ago
I asked this on the original thread too but never got an answer, and I ask it again because I'm not familiar with how publishing works: If I submit a series of short stories, would I still retain the right to collect them into a book and have it published elsewhere, like Asimov did with Foundation?
- mojoe 11y agoI'm sorry I missed your question the last time around. Yes, you retain the copyright, I just buy 'first world electronic print rights.' This means that I'm buying exclusive rights to publish electronically for a period of time (in this case 6 months) and after that I have non-exclusive publishing rights (so you can sell or publish reprints any time after 6 months). After 3 years you have the option of terminating my non-exclusive rights altogether, although you don't need to to sell your own reprints. I've been told by authors that my contract is the most author-friendly they've seen (it's based on SFWA's model magazine contract).
- personjerry 11y agoThat sounds good, thank you for the thorough answer.
- sohkamyung 11y agoThe rights are mentioned on their website [1]. It states that: 'Our contract follows the lead of SFWA's Model Magazine Contract.' [2] [1] [ http://compellingsciencefiction.com/submit.html http://compellingsciencefiction.com/submit.html ] [2] (PDF) [ http://www.sfwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ModelMagazineContract.pdf http://www.sfwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ModelMagazine... ]