Selling Rights

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Selling Rights


Dates:

6–8 August/19–21 November 2008 (a three-day course)

 

Price:

£849+VAT (a number of discounts are available)

 

Venue:

The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels)


Book course online or phone +44 (0)20 8874 2718 for availability

 

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Everything you need to know to get the right deal and improve profits, including:

 

  • what rights there are
  • who might want to buy them
  • how to negotiate and conclude the right deal
  • how potential rights sales can influence publishing decisions
  • keeping records, routines, internal housekeeping, organisation of facts
  • methods of selling.

 

Your ability to make a good deal can make a big difference to your company's profitability. So you need to be sure you fully understand why, how and when to sell rights.


The team of experts who lead this course will draw on their extensive experience of different markets to teach you everything you need to sell the rights to your publications successfully.

Programme

Day one

  • Why rights are important
  • The author's contract
  • Record keeping
  • Book clubs
  • Permissions
  • USA and serial rights

 

Day two

  • Translation rights
  • Co-editions

 

Day three

  • Film, TV, broadcasting and merchandising
  • Group project

 

Who will benefit from this course?
Rights Assistants, Executives and Managers.


Your tutors
Your team of tutors includes Joanna Everard, Head of Rights at A&C Black, Kevin Stewart, Partner at Contracts for Publishing Limited, Lynette Owen, from Pearson Education, Tracy Philips, from Macmillan, and Diane Spivey, Rights Director at Little, Brown Book Group.


Note that most of our open courses can also be run as in company events.


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Dates: 6–8 August/19–21 November 2008

Price: £849+VAT (a number of discounts are available).

Venue: The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels).

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Course title:
Selling Rights
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£849 +VAT
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6–8 August 2008,19–21 November 2008