A PERFECT STORM?
This article presents the author's opinion on the royalty system prevailing in the book publishing industry of Great Britain. He feels that the royalty system of the industry should be reformed. The literary agents of the industry refuse to accept that an author's earnings should be calculated as a...
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Bookseller Media Ltd
5/19/2006
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