Book Publishing Kit - Publisher Edition

Set the terms for publishing an author’s book, paying royalties, and working together.

Is this the right kit?

Use this kit when your press signs an agreement with an author to publish a book. For permission to use just certain rights, such as a translation or audiobook, see Subsidiary and Foreign Rights Kit - Publisher Edition. For writers contributing to an anthology, see Anthology Contributor Agreement Kit - Publisher Edition. For a shared project with another publisher, see Co-Publishing and Partnership Agreement Kit - Publisher Edition.

What’s included

• A Companion Guide to explain the documents and choices (PDF)
• A book publishing agreement, reversion confirmation, and optional external AI license rider (Word)
• Filled-in deal-summary and reversion examples (PDF)
• A Book Publishing Deal Summary and chain-of-title worksheet (Word), plus royalty and rights-administration tools (Excel)

What this kit helps you plan

• The book rights your press receives and the rights the author keeps.
• Delivery, publishing plans, author payments, and sales records.
• How approvals, changes, and the end of the publishing deal are handled.

Before you fill it in

Use the Deal Summary to record agreed terms and mark open points before drafting. After drafting, compare the agreement with the deal you meant to make. Update the record from the signed agreement.