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Posted By: gold bug <gold_bug56@yahoo.com> In Response To: Advice needed, interviewing help long-distance for ebook? (Diana)
Sunday, 29 May 2005, at 1:56 p.m.
Get a contract and have an attorney or paralegal write it up. Make sure both if you are happy and understand the arrangement. You can basically approach it in two ways.
1) Sell your writing and have him pay you for your skill - simple but I doubt this is what you want...
2) License his scheme and share profits and royalties - this is where it gets
tricky and I have looked into this. Who will own the copyright? If you do(100%) he would not be very happy. How will you share the profits? WHo will do the books and audit that no parties are getting screwed?
Copyright is not something you own 50:50 and I have walked down the same road and talked to attorneys when I wrote my trading course and my ex partner was supposed to be the 'marketing genius'. a copyright is not a thing to be shared or expect long legal disputes and high attorney fees.
just my 2 cents/
> I just connected with a gentleman in a very small town who's developed a
> gardening system that has become so popular that people pay to come to his
> weekend seminars from hundreds of miles away.
> I'm an author... he desperately wants some sort of printed manual or
> booklet, and *I* want to offer an ebook based on his material. Sounds like
> a win-win deal for both of us, so I want to pursue it.
> I would love some advice, though, on how to DO this, logistically --- to
> get the info from him so I can write it up. My previous ebooks have been
> largely based on info I could collect online or from the library, with
> some interviews thrown in, but this case is different because the
> book/ebook would all be based on this guy's knowledge and experience.
> He has very little written material, what he presents is in a 6-hour
> hands-on seminar that people attend on his property. He has some pictures.
> Can I interview him over the phone? If so, is there a good way to do it?
> (Maybe recording it as I go?)
> Is there a good way to record him actually conducting his seminar outside?
> (I MIGHT be able to get to his place to do it myself, though I'm not
> exactly a recording/videotaping expert.) Or have him talk into a cassette
> and transcribe it?
> Any tips or advice would be MUCH appreciated.
> Diana
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