Benefits of Resell And/Or Reprint Rights
Benefits of Resell And/Or Reprint Rights
Internet marketing ebooks and other material can help
entrepreneurs such as writers and software developers earn more
money from the work they do. Combining internet marketing with
the power of resell rights and reprint rights further increases
that money-making potential. That's good news because writing,
either traditional or in code, is a tough business. Seeking out
a living as a writer can be difficult, and realizing a
significant profit can be nearly impossible unless you're a
member of a select group of established authors or known
software producers.
So what strategies can a writer or software creator employ to
maximize his or her time, effort, and earning potential without
doing a lot of extra work? The secret is to multiply your
customer base by as much as possible by taking advantage of the
benefits of resell rights and reprint rights.
Resell rights or reprint rights allow a single piece of
intellectual property work to be sold to many customers.
Whether or not it is officially registered, the copyright to
writing and software code belongs to the author. When a writer
is commissioned to create a work for a client, especially early
on in their career, the client will often request that the
copyright transfer to him or her upon completion and payment. At
that point, the client then owns the material and is free to
market and resell it as his or her own without crediting the
original author. The problem with this scenario is that unless
the initial payoff is large (and it usually is not), is that it
is the buyer and not the writer who now holds the power to earn
maximum profit for the work. Controlling resell rights or
reprint rights is an effective way to maintain a writer's
earning potential.
Reprint rights are essentially permission to reprint material
that has already been published somewhere else. When selling a
piece of written work, an author can choose to maintain reprint
rights. That way, if another customer comes along needing a
specific piece of writing, he or she may buy it from the author
(with the understanding, of course, that the material has
already been sold once to another buyer and may already appear
in print). Reprint material generally commands less value than
never before published or sold material, but on the other hand,
it also doesn't require as much effort as the original piece.
Similarly, if for example, a buyer wants to purchase ebook
reprint rights along with the first printing rights, an author
can ask for a higher purchase price. This applies whether it is
intended to be for profit or simply a free ebook. Reprint rights
usually limit how many times a piece of work can be reprinted
and under what circumstance.
Resell rights allow a third party to resell existing material.
The material may be intellectual, such as poetry or a resell
ebook, or tangible in nature, such as t-shirts or trinkets. By
selling resell rights, the author is allowing the buyer to
market the material and to resell it to other purchasers.
Following the same example as above, if a writer had created an
ebook, resell ebook rights would allow the buyer to purchase the
right to sell that ebook again and again, either credited to the
author or not, depending on the contract. Again, transferring
resell rights should increase the price the author receives for
the work. While resell rights are fairly straight forward for
prose, the scenario is slightly more complicated for software
resale rights as courts in the United States and other countries
debate whether software is actually sold or licensed.
By discovering the potential of resale rights and reprint
rights, even new writers can learn to earn more.