Negotiating Author-Friendly Publication Agreements — Resources

These select resources will help you develop your negotiation skills so you can approach publishers with confidence.

• Harvard Program on Negotiation Reading List
• Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. Penguin, 2011.

These select resources will help you learn the ins-and-outs of author agreements and negotiate better ones.

• How to Negotiate with Publishers from UConn Library
• Guide to Author Rights from Arizona State University
• Understanding and Negotiating Book Publication Contracts by the Authors Alliance
• Model Publishing Contract for Digital Scholarship by Emory University and the University of Michigan
• Negotiating Author Agreements, slideshow by Laura Quilter of UMass Amherst
• Sample author agreements for various publication types from Columbia University