Authors will increasingly navigate their own rights instead of publishers, according to Mark Stay. “You’re going to have authors like a friend of mine who is with one of the big publishers. He got the rights back to 10 thrillers this week, absolutely cracking thrillers, which frankly his publishers didn’t know how to sell,” Stay told the panel. “But now he can take those, sell them himself, make 70% on each sale instead of the paltry amount publishers usually give and re-jacket them and sell them internationally."
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