Davis
E-BOOK Publishing
WE ARE YOUR
PROFESSIONAL WORLD WIDE ELECTRONIC BOOK PUBLISHING COMPANY
Publishing authors around the world. 40%
royalties paid monthly.
Authors are the greatest artists in the world and they represent the
artistry and wisdom of our world's society. Enjoy the best
humanity has to offer...read e-books.
NEW AUTHORS CONTRACT
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 with bases in Copyright Law that becomes legal and binding on all parties involved when you submit your manuscript for publication. If there are conflicts in this contract with your country's publishing laws; when you present these conflicts, adjustments will be negotiated with you to bring your contract to standard. This contract becomes binding on all parties involved when Davis E-Book Publishing receives your manuscript and remains effective from the first day your e-book is published to the web for one year (1) to date.
DAVIS
E-BOOK PUBLISHING - 8 McKees Creek
Road, Summersville, West Virginia 26651
Contact: James Davis, Executive Officer/Owner, email.
A staff member or I will contact you via e-mail after we receive your manuscript,
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 and/or delete it from our database
per your request. 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, is expensive and slows the process. You taking the
responsibility to make sure your work is professionally prepared and
professionally presented will mean the difference in getting published. This, and
the below information, is your non-conventional contract with this company.
This contract is a verbal agreement, legally binding upon the author, publisher
and any third party(s). Read it, and if you agree, send you manuscript. If
you have a disagreement with any part of this contract, most can be negotiated.
Contact the Executive Officer via e-mail and we will discuss your differences.
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. You may not seek
another electronic publisher to publish your manuscript until after one year
with this company. After this
company publishes your manuscript and if 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.
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 of the United States of America.
DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING will not alter the original meaning of your text while editing or post-editing without notifying you of the reason and requesting your permission. Make sure your manuscript contains no non-recognized copyright material, icons, logos, or popular names that may be covered under copyright law. If you do not understand your copyrights or would like to know more, you may request a copy and this company will supply you the United States Copyright Laws URL.
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. Your manuscript will be returned or deleted from our
system if it has not met DAVIS
E-BOOK PUBLISHING'S
standards of ethics, decency, morality, or editing quality; you are
responsible for paying the return postage and or editing fees. 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 acquired 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 skills to edit your
manuscript, and most times, charge you a very low fee. Your editor will receive recognition within your
e-book
upon your request or our request, 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'S fee for editing manuscripts is $0.03
(cents) per word. If it is discovered that your manuscript has not been
edited by a professional editor, other than yourself, then this fee will be
charged for a DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING
editor. You must supply the name, address, and telephone number of your
editor; your editor may be contacted for credential verification. Fee is
to be paid in full before manuscript is published to the web. If you claim
that your manuscript has been edited by a professional editor other than
yourself, and we find twenty (20) or more mistakes, we will charge you the .03
cents per word for editing your manuscript. If it has been verified that your
manuscript has been edited by a professional editor, other than a DAVIS
E-BOOK PUBLISHING editor, and we find five (5) or
more mistakes, we will charge you .03 cents per line for post-editing.
The fee
charged for DAVIS E-BOOK PUBLISHING
to digitally design your front cover, to your liking, if practical and possible, is $100.00.
This fee must be paid before your e-book is published to the web, and there is
no refund on the illustration fee.
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
if your manuscript appears to have been edited by a professional editor, other
than yourself, or have been proven to be edited by your selected editor from
this company.
Submitting: Submit your manuscript, query,
introduction and author history w/portrait photo via e-mail or 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 XP
and Microsoft Word 2007 editing programs and above. PDF files must
be converted to .doc and .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 legal contract and no signature is necessary. Individualized upgrades to this contract will be negotiated with you during our communications.