Your link is incorrect, Denise. :) In case you wanted to fix it. http://www.cacoethespublishing.com/

I noticed this in their FAQ. What are Cacoethes Publishing House’s contract terms? Please note that a full contract will be supplied for review upon acceptance of a story. However, royalties are 40% for digital releases and 35% for print books. The length of grant of publishing rights is the full term of copyright. This includes digital, print, audio, translation, and secondary/subsidiary rights. Royalty payments are quarterly. Emphasis mine. They want publishing rights for the life of the copyright? Am I reading that correctly?

35% royalties for print books??? :shock: That sounds unlikely. Vanity publishing, perchance? And it might have been nice if they'd stuck around long enough to put this in the markets section.... Or am I just being bitchy? LOL PS Cup - I'd read that sentence the same way you did. And they want all forms of rights, too - no leaving you with print rights while they take electronic.

Presumably you could ask them to add in a rights reversion clause, so that the rights revert to the author when the book sells less than X-hundred copies a year or whatever. But the fact the only thing they stipulate is *all* rights suggests it's not something they'll negotiate. As they don't yet have any books out, or any track record of selling either books to readers or secondary rights to other publishers, I'd be wary. My diagnosis is "well-meaning but clueless" and they may be open to suggested changes once they become more publishing-savvy; however, caution is probably in order and a more established house may be a better choice.

Maybe the 35% on print is for net or something. Print royalites, if my information is correct and my memory is right, is somewhere around 4-6% or something like that. I don't mind giving a publisher print and electronic publishing rights *IF* they have a real print divison. And publishing rights for the life of the copyright? That's...what 50 or 75 years after my death assuming I don't will the copyright to someone else? Whoa...that's...that's asking for A LOT. Maybe, just maybe, they'll stop back by here and realize what they seem to be asking. They have author's listed. Either those people were able to negotiate clauses or they have no problems giving up publishing rights for life.

Agree with HH. I lost interest on the 'life if copyright' issue and 35% is either clueless or serious rampant net IMHO.

http://www.secstate.wa.gov/corps/search_detail.aspx?ubi=602726618 Just incorporated end of May, as LLC, which is basically a personal corporation, to provide corporate legal protections while still paying personal income taxes. CEO's full name is Jawana Denise Mosley. http://www.jdandjiconstruction.com/employment_opportunities.html Their address seems to be the same as a construction company. Apparently the CEO is also CFO of this construction company, her bio says she is a real estate agent also, a graduate of University of North Carolina and working on her Juris Doctorate as well. Busy girl. Joyce C. does mortage applications for this company -- http://www.mtgreduction.com/Intro.aspx Pretty new company too-- http://www.secstate.wa.gov/corps/search_detail.aspx?ubi=602730803 Their web site has nice music, good beat, very danceable but short. http://www.jdandjiconstruction.com/homes_for_sale.html Hmm, looking at the first house, for $325,000, you'd think they could afford a little landscaping and get the garbage cans out of the front yard for a photo op.

A publisher and a construction company? That makes for strange bedfellows. LOL