SueMW:
My decision to post a comment here was only to share my positive experience and give Ray Ruppert the praise he so deserves.
That's cool and something that we welcome. Thank you for taking the time to do so.
SueMW:
He is certainly entitled to put anything he desires in his contract.
Yes, I agree that Ray is entitled to put anything he wants in his contract, just as you are free to agree whatever you want to in a contract and I am free to point out any concerns that I would have with a contract.
SueMW:
I am insulted(for him) by what I see as some comments that appear vainglorious/supercilious. When someone comes on these forums and explains themselves,(such as he did and I admire that) I do notice that they seem to get attacked in an ever-so subtle way.
Which comments do you think are vainglorious and/or supercilious? Personally, I think that the questions here have been pertinent and the points made are relevant. No one here has been rude or behaved in an insulting manner to you or to
Ray but maybe we have raised points that you don't really want to think about. You might not like that, but there's a subtle difference between not liking what people are saying and having their attacking you.
SueMW:
As for me, I shall leave for good and wish all of you success and a sense of learned respect.
It's a shame that you want to leave as there are other Forums here that you may find more to your liking.
Best of luck to you for the future.
rayruppert:
I do know what it takes – documentation wise – to send royalties to someone in another country. The bigger issue is sending books to the author, getting them through customs and paying for shipping. I have done the research on this.
I appreciate that shipping overseas is likely to be more expensive, but I don't see what it's got to do with taking worldwide publishing rights from an author. When an author grants you worldwide rights, then you are taking the rights to publish that book anywhere in the world. Posting and packing and customs overseas really does not come into the equation.
In any event, surely you only accept authors who you think that you can market and sell within the United States? In that case, presumably you're accepting authors where you will earn a revenue stream from selling their books - a revenue stream that should cover the postage and packing for sending any author copies overseas.
rayruppert:
If a person has published a book in another country and they come to me to do it in the US I would turn them down because I would not be able to give them the exposure here. It wouldn’t be fair to them. They need a publisher that can do the same for them as they had in the other country.
I'm sorry, but I don't understand this either. How would the exposure differ for an author based in the US and an author based overseas? The only difference I would anticipate is in the amount of author promotion within the United States that the author can do if they are based in another country - but this would surely be offset by the marketing, promotion and distribution that you already have in place for your US authors?
rayruppert:
If a person comes to me and hasn’t published before, then I usually spend a tremendous amount of time editing and working with the author to get the book ready for print. If that author then takes the book and gets it printed in another country, they have reaped benefits and I believe I have the right to negotiate with the author to receive some benefit as well.
Okay, this I understand. Thank you.
MM
