Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:57:27 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Old School
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> twhite8 at cox.net 3/30/2005 6:55:08 PM >>>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
>To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 6:47 PM
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: Old School
>
>> > twhite8 at cox.net 3/30/2005 6:43:03 PM >>>
>>
>> Fascinating Bob Shaw materical excised...
>>
>> >  A university press
>> >wanted to
>> >use the story in a textbook of some sort -- but were aghast at the
>> >notion
>> >of *paying money* for this use....
>>
>> Heh... not much has changed.
>
>Wotta racket.  The "editor" of the book and the publisher keep *all*
>the
>income, sharing none of it with the authors whose backs they are
>riding and
>whose work fills their book.   And they all profess *total ignorance*

>of
>accepted publishing standards in this regard.  I was, umm, amazed.

Very broadly speaking, the editor doesn't get much either.  There is
still a tradition of "publish or perish" in academia.

Further, for almost all scholarly works the author assigns the
copyright to the publisher. & most scholarly works have printruns of 800
or so, printruns that will last, oh... 3 ... 4 years.

OTOH, here at JHUP we receive no money from the university - we have to
be able to pay all of bills.  To that end we do a small number of
"trade" books.  All of those earn fairly standard royalties, and usually
the rights remain with the author.

mjw

>
>--Ted White