Agent Kristin from Pub Rants* warns authors about some bad behavior over at Macmillan. It;s not just that they sent out amendments to authors saying, “Those electronic rights we didn’t get in your contract? Yeah. We get those, too. Sign here.” (I’m paraphrasing. I’m sure it’s all in deep lawyer-speak.)
The bad form, as Agent Kristin warns, is that it looks like they were sending the amendments straight to the authors instead of to their agents (who presumably would say, “Whoa, there and hold your horses. You want that, you gotta pay. You gotta negotiate!”)
*Don’t miss the comments on that post, either. There’s more juicy goodness there, too.
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