During that time, the publishing house prepares and distributes the work. Contracts themselves usually run from one year to fourteen, with three to five being the average. When we sign contracts with publishing companies, be they New York traditional or smaller e publishing houses, we give up our rights to that work for a length of time. She's probably not the only one wondering. I had a lady email me the other day wanting to know what she needed to do to release a title she'd received the rights back to from a small e-pub, and I thought it would be a good blog post. The stigma to releasing your own work is finally beginning to ease as authors realize there is more than one path to publication. Indie pubbed authors are getting publishing contracts and traditionally pubbed authors are putting out their back lists as indies. Publishing is changing every day, it seems.
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