the Star Wars banner. The books are now sold (and I emphasize "sold,"

because the writer retains no rights at all) on a flat-fee basis. Bantam

absolutely refuses to allow royalties, although the end return on a royalty

basis for some books exceeds the flat fees offered by around 175%.

Shortly after Mr. I. Applebaum's announcement of the unilateral change in

terms, Del Rey--a unit of Knopf--obtained the contract from Lucasfilm

for future Star Wars tie-ins products. The SFWA and science f

for writers--speculative fiction being one of them--that certainly require

incident over the Chris van Patten ms., which recently plagued HarperCollins,

of the RH publishers as they like; there'll not be a single corporate executive

The proposed merger between Bertelsmann (owns BDD) and Random House

we've made very clear in all our public statements of intentions for the new

support Inkspot by clicking on the banner ad at the top and check out "Jesse's

territory. However, if one looks at certain market segments--once again,

publish first-time authors as BDD and Random House h

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