ABSTRACT
The author-publisher contract sets out the scope of the publisher to license various kinds of rights to other fi rms: the licensing business model. These rights allow other companies to exploit the book in different ways – media, territories and languages. Rights sales can be important to a publisher since the income attracts little in the way of direct costs and is often simply extra profi t. In consumer book publishing the contract is frequently drawn up by the author’s agent and sets out the rights available to the publisher.
