Hi all.
I am in a writer's group in which one member sends all documents to his personal Kindle account so he can read on his device rather than printing. I haven't been concerned overly much with in-process works. However, I am now sending completed works, and I want to make sure my First Publications Rights are not in possible violation with the ereader practice. Any ideas out there?
Thanks much for any comments.
As long as it's private, I don't see why it would. If it's public, though, it could constitute publication.
I don't see how this is different than emailing them in the first place. As long as they aren't viewable by the general public I am sure you are fine. I change PDFs over to iBooks and Kindle all the time so I can read from my iPad. I would guess it's a fairly common thing given that Kindle and iBooks both recognize ePubs, PDFs, etc.
No, you're not actually publishing them, no more than you are when you email a doc and/or view it on your computer. It's a personal device.
FYI, first publishing rights, for the most part, went the way of the dinosaur. There are occasional periodicals/magazines/etc that require that you've never published it, but in this day and age, it's mostly a non-issue. You can put excerpts and such on your blog (which does constitute "publishing") and it won't effect your ability to publish a novel.
Hi all.
Thanks for the feedback. I like the practice of reviewing docs on my ereader. But now that I'm on the 3rd complete redraft of a 70+K word novel, I don't want to blow it.
And Mandy, thanks for the extra info on 1st pub rights. It's such a gray area for me, and changing as quickly (it seems) as media changes.
Do you have a publisher and/or agent lined up?
