Re: adobe/o'reillly publishing?

Jonathon Blake wrote:

>
> Peter wrote:
>
> > You have reason to believe Oxford University Press is dishonest?
>
> No more than any other publisher is.
>
> Most of the published authors I know, have had issues relating to
> getting paid all the royalties that they are due. [The "worst"
> instance was the publisher who didn't tell the author about the
> foreign edition they had published.]

Heh. Oxford makes it a selling point to their prospective authors that
authors get 50% of the take on translations rather than the 10% in basic
royalties.

(That's of the wholesale price, of course, not of the list price.)
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...