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Davis E-BOOK Publishing
WE ARE YOUR PROFESSIONAL WORLD WIDE ELECTRONIC BOOK PUBLISHING COMPANY

Authors represent the artistry and wisdom of our world's society. Enjoy the best humanity has to offer...read E-Books.

Davis E-Book Publishing electronically digitizes your manuscript into a beautiful E-Book and presents it to the world on the World Wide Web. The world becomes your stage, and its population...your customer. The below is a subsidiary contract that becomes legal and binding when you submit your manuscript for publication. Adjustments will be negotiated with you upon acceptance or you manuscript.

DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING - 8 McKees Creek Road, Summersville, West Virginia 26651

Contact: James Davis, President, Executive Editor and Publisher, email, 304-872-9696. A staff member or I, will e-mail you after we have your manuscript, it is reviewed and accepted for publishing. If your manuscript is rejected because it is too pornographic, to the point of being illegal in the United States, or too hateful, to where it could bring harm to an individual or group of individuals, we will return it to you with an explanation. Spend the necessary time with your manuscript to ensure it is well written and professionally edited before submitting to any publishing company. This extra time spent with your manuscript will present it to be of the highest quality, needing the minimal editing and published "first" above lesser manuscripts. Full editing takes a considerable amount of time and slows the publishing process. You taking the responsibility to make sure your work is professionally prepared and professionally presented will mean the difference in getting published.

Accept: All genres, except hard-core pornography that is considered illegal in the United States and literature that could be considered hateful to an individual or group of individuals to the point it could bring harm to the individuals. We do not want Reality Show scripts or manuscripts that are pending hard copy publishing. You must be the sole owner of your manuscript. You may seek hard copy publishers after your manuscript has been published with DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING. After this company publishes your manuscript and it brings any hardships upon this company or litigations, you are responsible for all costs. If your words or actions bring hardships or litigations upon this company, you are responsible for all costs. Your e-book and royalty cheques will be held by DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING until all fees are paid. Upon full payment of any debts, the continued selling of your e-book will be reviewed for deletion.   If it is discovered, in a court of law or by an officer of the court, that the fault does not bear your signature or the signature of your e-book, the accuser must bear the weight; this is nonnegotiable. We ask you to stay with DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING for one (1) year after publishing for the purpose of recouping publishing expenses. After the year you may withdraw your e-book from this publisher or request to continue for another year. After DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING publishes your e-book, you may seek a hard copy publisher to publish your manuscript in hardcopy or softcopy book form, but not seek another electronic publisher.

The Author shall be entitled during the one year of this contract to publish with any other publishing company, hard and soft copies of the book , provided that DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING retains the sole electronic publishing, advertising, and distribution right of the electronic version. No other electronic publishing company or electronic publishing subcontractor or electronic publishing program can publish during this year from date of first sale and no other electronic publishing company retains the right or any part of the original electronic book. DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING is the sole owner of any creates thereof of the electronic version and may be used by other publishers, electronic, softcopy or hardcopy by permission and recognition only.

If you seek a hard copy publisher before we publish you, we will withdraw our offer. If this company designs your cover, you have permission to present the cover to a hard copy publisher with proper recognition to this company. You may use this company logo, URL and advertising segment as presented under your e-book title on this site to advertise (at your expense) your e-book outside our normal advertising. If you have your own web site and you would like to use this company's banner to direct your patrons to purchase your e-book, we will prepare the banner or logo, or a URL address so your patrons may click on the banner, logo or URL address to purchase.

When DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING takes possession of your manuscript, you are entitled to the same freedoms as this company and protected under the same rights as stated in Copyright Laws.

DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING will not alter from the original meaning of your text without your permission.

Terms: You receive 40% on all sales of your manuscript, foreign or domestic. Paying the Agents or Editors you hire outside of DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING is your responsibility. DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING does not charge you for post editing or wording cover design. Your manuscript will be returned if it has not met DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING'S standards of ethics, decency, morality, or editing quality. If your manuscript has been pre-accepted by the executive editor, return postage for your manuscript is waived. If it is discovered in the post editing that your manuscript contains unacceptable material, you will be asked to correct it or it will be turned over to the legal authorities or destroyed. Each author maintains the copyright to his or her work and each agreement is non-exclusive. This allows you to pursue other business alternatives, including optioning your book to film and television production companies. Authors also maintain translation and subsidiary rights as well. We pay royalty cheques as close to the 1st day of each month (American standard calendar) as possible to ensure you benefit from the full month sales. We will not notify you if you have not made any sales during the month.

Requirements: Manuscripts must be professionally edited by an editor, other than yourself, before submission of query, introduction and author history with portrait photo, if you desire your photo exhibited in the "About the Author" section of your e-book. Your local grade school or high school English teacher has the skill to edit your manuscript. Your editor will receive recognition within your e-book when your manuscript is published. If your manuscript is not professionally edited prior to submission and you wish to hire a DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING editor, DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING fees are $84.00 per hour, or $10.00 per page. DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING reserves the right to edit and/or post-edit your manuscript and clarify your thoughts and fragmented sentences, but not alter their meaning. DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING does not charge for post editing your manuscript or for the text cover design. DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING'S local artist charges $100.00 dollars for a basic design. You may contact the local artist or editor through the executive editor. Our editors start at $84.00 per hour and $10.00 dollars per page for complex manuscripts or at an average of .015 per word for noncomplex manuscripts.

Submitting: Submit your manuscript, query, introduction and author history w/portrait photo on a read write CD (CD-RW) saved as (.doc) and illustrations saved as (.jpg or .jpeg) by postal mail to the above address. Your manuscript, query, introduction and author history w/portrait photo must be compatible with Microsoft Windows 95 and above and Microsoft Word editing programs. PDF files must be converted to .doc or .jpg before submitting.
DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING will handle most of its correspondence with you via e-mail. If DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING decides to publish your manuscript, the information within this document acts as a contract. Individualized upgrades to this contract will be negotiated with your during our communications.