>> > Someone somewhere (probably a different list with no authors in >>residence) >> > mentioned that when you buy a CD from a music club, the disc isn't >>counted >> > towards the disc's sales in terms of royalties, so you're arguably >>Really? Is this substantiated, or just rumor? :) > >Heh. >Although I could believe it; the music clubs manufacture their own CDs, and >royalty contracts could conceivably refer only to "copies of your disc that >we the publisher produce and sell." Record labels have a notorious record of screwing their artists with devious contracts. I've actually seen band websites that implore people not to buy their music from specific labels because they aren't getting anything. This is the one thing that serves to make the whole MP3 issues not *quite* as cut and dry and one might think. I don't know what the equivilent situation is with book clubs, but I know that most authors do a good job of managing their rights (and that most publishers don't live down to their counterparts in the recording industry). Typically an author will sign a contract that says something like 1st North American Printing Rights which will allow the publication house to perform a specific run of books in a specific region. I would expect that similar contracts would have to be signed to book club prints. In such a case, I would (wildly) guess that an author might get a flat fee rather than a royalty, but I would be surprised if the author didn't get anything. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail