The IP explosion: the expanding universe of subsidiary rights opportunities for indie publishers, with guest Ethan Ellenberg

Topics include:

• The big picture of IP for authors and publishers: the hub of a wheel with many spokes
• Published authors are already part of an ecosystem and can create their own editions, audiobooks, and translations
• Your first step: make sure the primary edition is launched successfully!
• The need for clear contracts to make sure you have all the rights you think you do
• How the foreign rights market is changing
• How audio books are becoming an entertainment medium, divorced from the original print book
• Finding a good rights partner you can trust
• Royalty Reminder: a new IP management tool

Links

Article: "Intellectual Property: The Big Picture for Authors"
https://www.janefriedman.com/intellectual-property-authors/

Royalty Reminder
https://www.royaltyreminder.com/

The Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency
https://ethanellenberg.com/

Participants

Ethan Ellenberg opened his literary agency in late 1984 after holding jobs at both Bantam and Berkley/Jove. At Berkley/Jove he was manager of the Contracts Department. At Bantam he was Associate Contracts Manager. He represents a wide range of book authors, though his specialty is commercial fiction. He is very active in Romance publishing with a number of New York Times Bestselling authors represented. He also does some non-fiction and has a strong children’s list including the Caldecott winner Eric Rohmann.

He is an acknowledged expert on the practical aspects of publishing including the publishing agreement and royalty accounting, and a long time industry observer and author advocate. His opinion and educational pieces have appeared in the newsletter of Novelists, Inc., the Romance Writer’s Report, and a number of F&W guides to publishing.

Peter Goodman (host) is publisher of Stone Bridge Press in Berkeley, California. He began his publishing career in Tokyo, Japan, in 1976. A longtime member of IBPA, he has served on the IBPA board and as IBPA board chair.

For more information, go to IBPA at https://www.ibpa-online.org/.