2010 QUICK RIGHTS International Seminar

Selling translation rights as licences and co-editions

A one-day course held in Bologna on Monday, 22nd March 2010 from 9:00 to 16:00

In the course of a day, the aim of the Quick Rights International Seminar is to improve and expand upon participant’s knowledge of the different ways and means in which rights are traded – whether buying or selling - and to provide a forum in which particular and general issues can be addressed, discussed and answered. The seminar will cover key contractual points, royalty calculations, co-edition pricing, terms of trade, scheduling, and the lifecycle of a typical rights sale.

The seminar is held in English.

Contents

Royalty calculations
Terms of trade
Key contractual clauses
Scheduling
Identifying rights potential and
Influencing product development
Lifecycle of a typical rights sale

Who will benefit from this course?

(Junior) Rights’ Managers, (Junior) Commissioning Editors and Designers working with children’s books.

Seminar leader

Ed Glover trained as a librarian and worked for the British Consulate in France, then studied Publishing and History at Oxford Brookes where he specialized in what was then the relatively low-profile field of Subsidiary Rights. However, as rights’ income grew in importance, Ed’s knowledge of that enabled him to gain rapid promotion: first to Rights Manager of Phaidon Press, then hired by Robert Maxwell to become Rights Director of Macdonald Publishers, and eventually invited by Paul Hamlyn to become Sales & Marketing Director of Octopus.
After two years studying for his MBA at Westminster University, Ed left corporate publishing in 1992 to start his own business, Transedition. This was a marketing operation that purchased English language rights from European publishers in order to sell them on in English as co-editions to publishers in all the major English speaking countries. In 1997 this operation was enhanced by the creation of Translate-A-Book, a book translation agency for publishers. More recently, Ed has been developing a range of children’s books in paper and digital formats the first of these multi-media titles will be published under the new imprint, Camelot Editions.

Guest Speaker

Susanne Koppe studied German language and literature, educational theory and psychology in Munich, as well as children's literature at Simmons College in Boston, USA. In 1989, she began in publishing, first as literary scout with Beltz & Gelberg and then later with Bertelsmann. She also worked as a journalist for several important German newspaper. She also did translation work, was a facilitator for literature from foreign publishing companies and help to set up the "FILU" archive for illustrators. In 1997, Susanne Koppe took over as head of the "Rotfuchs" children's book programme at Rowohlt Verlag. In 2002, she founded her own literary agency for children's books and illustrations, "Auserlesen - Ausgezeichnet"
(www.auserlesen-ausgezeichnet.de).

Organization

The seminar is organized jointly by the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.

When and where

Monday, 22nd March 2010, from 9:00 to 16:00 at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair

Your contribution

The seminar fee of 270 € (VAT included) covers all seminar materials, coffee-breaks and lunch and will be invoiced to participants before the seminar.

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