Business and Legal Forms for Authors and Self-Publishers (Business & Legal Forms for Authors & Self-Publishers) (Paperback)

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Editorial Reviews

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A handy guide offering advice on how to negotiate and how to contact volunteer lawyers for the arts -- Library Journal

A helpful compilation of basic forms and tear-out forms for actual use, plus an intelligent index. This is a very useful addition to the professional writer's library -- ASJA Newsletter

An all-in-one handy book, authors and self-publishers will find every contract and business form they'll need at every step of the writing/publishing process -- The Pulse

Business and Legal Forms for Authors and Self-publishers by Tad Crawford is an indispensable reference that contains samples of every kind of contract and business form you may ever need. Accompanying this material is some no-nonsense advice about how to negotiate winning contracts, use the forms to your advantage, and generally make the best deals possible -- The Weigand Report

If you're mystifies by contracts, estimates, expense reports, and the myriad other forms and agreements that keep cropping up in your writing career, you may want to get the revised Business and Legal Forms for Authors and Self-publishers, by Tad Crawford. This 191-page book could save you time and keep you from having to learn firsthand some unpleasant lessons -- Writer's Connection

Provides important details not to be found elsewhere. An important success kit' of practical examples -- Reviewer's Bookwatch

Revised edition of a reference we've referred to often to assist with Hotline questions -- Freelance Writer's Report

This book is a value. Not a legal treatise or a panacea but a solid, capable job. The forms are written in legal style without being filled with jargon -- The Editorial Eye --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description

Professional and aspiring writers will find indispensable tools in this practical, complete, and time-saving popular resource, now updated to include a CD-ROM.

Twenty essential forms include estimates, invoices, releases, copyright applications, and licenses covering authors' and self-publishers' every need, plus contracts between author and agent, publisher, designer, printer, sales representative, book distributor, and more. The collection provides a second set of forms perforated for easy removal, leaving the book intact for ongoing reference, and a CD-ROM contains the forms in Adobe Acrobat and the most popular word-processing formats for both PC and Mac platforms.

Tad Crawford, an attorney, publisher, and author of many successful guides to assist artists in managing their careers, lives in New York.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Allworth Press; Revised edition (December 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1581150393
• ISBN-13: 978-1581150391
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,176,346 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Fill-in Test?, October 2, 2000

By	Dan Poynter "Author-Publisher-Speaker" (Santa Barbara, CA United States) - See all my reviews

The most difficult part of filling-in forms is understanding the questions. Attorney Tad Crawford not only provides the forms you need, he explains your choices for each line. He begins with a discussion of contracting. Then he provides each contract with a discussion of that agreement and a negotiation checklist.

As an author and a publisher, who has run his own business for over 30 years, I highly recommend this valuable book. [e-mail].

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to use, espec. with CD, February 2, 2003

By	Kat Spring "BookKat" (CO United States) - See all my reviews

This has all the basic forms you need. I had them on the CD and was able to "fix" them up to fit my needs more precisely. It was quick and user friendly. When you give a person a contract to sign, you want it to look professional. When done, I removed everything from my computer, and thereby, didn't use up memory.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An invaluable resource for authors and self-publishers., May 3, 2000

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

Tad Crawford's instruction manual, Business and Legal Forms for Authors and Self-Publishers, provides over twenty blank forms and clear checklists and explanations for their use, appearing in a revised edition and including the forms on a handy cd-rom. The sample contracts are particularly useful in this business guide.