• Challenge,  publishing

    Licenses Are Not The Ends of Roads

    Today I Got a Lot of Questions… After yesterday’s post, a number of the questions I got privately had the subtext that a license has a one-time-and-out thinking. Nope. — You license your novel to your own corporation. It is your corporation so you license everything inside that copyright to the corporation. It must be in a contract, so you make sure the contract can be cancelled if you want at any point, but you license the novel to your corporation. — Your corporation then licenses out things like electronic books to all the places, paper books, audio books, translations, and so on. Money flows into your corporation. — Say…