Copyright, digital sales and foreign rights

If you want advice to ensure that you have permission for the images and quotes in your manuscript, or need help with selling your ebook to retailers, library suppliers and mobile phone retailers, you might consider using the services of a rights consultant. One who specialises in ebooks and digital rights is Katy Loffman at Rights Solutions. Katy also has a digital sales agency, Dandelion Digital (katy@dandeliondigital.co.uk), which handles sales of ebooks to retailers, library suppliers and mobile phone retailers. Whether PDF, Mobipocket or EPUB, there are particular specifications with which you must comply if you want to sell your ebook through e-retailers and a digital sales specialist will be able to help you to navigate your way through.

If you think your book might be of interest to readers overseas, you should talk to a foreign rights specialist. The Insiders’ Guide to Independent Publishing, published by the Independent Publishers Guild, and the Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook, published by A & C Black, are useful sources of information.