Talk:Draft Contract 1
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Casey: I know that Nick has some great ideas about the book's printing. We need to get that embedded into the contract or it won't happen. | Casey: I know that Nick has some great ideas about the book's printing. We need to get that embedded into the contract or it won't happen. | ||
| − | Nick: Absolutely right, Casey. I am going to speak with Doug this week and see what we can do. I will meet with Yasuyo (design manager of MIT Press) if necessary to see what she will back and what she can get production to agree to. | + | Nick: Absolutely right, Casey. I am going to speak with Doug this week and see what we can do. I will meet with Yasuyo (design manager of MIT Press) if necessary to see what she will back and what she can get production to agree to. (Update: I have a meeting with Doug September 7.) |
Nick: Also, I should note that I had the agreements for ''Twisty Little Passages'' and ''The New Media Reader'' reviewed by a lawyer from the Author's Guild. (Back when I was a member of that organization.) I will check through everything noted in that review and will see what applies here. | Nick: Also, I should note that I had the agreements for ''Twisty Little Passages'' and ''The New Media Reader'' reviewed by a lawyer from the Author's Guild. (Back when I was a member of that organization.) I will check through everything noted in that review and will see what applies here. | ||
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Noah: "30 B&W images". Black and White may be overly limiting for this work. We've talked about color a good deal so far. | Noah: "30 B&W images". Black and White may be overly limiting for this work. We've talked about color a good deal so far. | ||
| + | Nick: The cost of including color plates is substantial, and the program we're writing about (the basic 10 PRINT itself) produces monochrome output. If we want full color, we need to determine how many color plates are needed and carefully justify these to MIT Press. If having color images would be a nice supplement rather than an essential part of the book, we'll probably be asked to place them on a website. | ||
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'''Section 9 (Proof) ''' | '''Section 9 (Proof) ''' | ||
Noah: Is it okay for us to get a friend or two to help proofread? It's one of my pet peeves that so many modern books have typos. | Noah: Is it okay for us to get a friend or two to help proofread? It's one of my pet peeves that so many modern books have typos. | ||
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| + | Nick: We can do that. MIT Press also will do copy editing. This section is just there to make it clear that one of our responsibilities is proofreading. | ||
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Nick: Jeremy, I have to do my best to persuade you that this is not the right attitude to take. We would rather have your effort put into things that cannot be done by someone outside the project. In my experience, MIT Press will generally index books (by hiring an indexer) if authors request it in the contract. They had ''The New Media Reader,'' ''Twisty Little Passages,'' and ''Racing the Beam'' indexed in this way. Although you might point to specific omissions or amusing entries, the indexers generally did a good job. I believe we should request that the book be indexed at the Press's expense, by someone the Press hires. We are already undertaking an very unusual project with many editorial and writing responsibilities, and this does not need to be part of our project as authors. | Nick: Jeremy, I have to do my best to persuade you that this is not the right attitude to take. We would rather have your effort put into things that cannot be done by someone outside the project. In my experience, MIT Press will generally index books (by hiring an indexer) if authors request it in the contract. They had ''The New Media Reader,'' ''Twisty Little Passages,'' and ''Racing the Beam'' indexed in this way. Although you might point to specific omissions or amusing entries, the indexers generally did a good job. I believe we should request that the book be indexed at the Press's expense, by someone the Press hires. We are already undertaking an very unusual project with many editorial and writing responsibilities, and this does not need to be part of our project as authors. | ||
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'''Section 12 (Basic Royalties)''' | '''Section 12 (Basic Royalties)''' | ||
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Noah: Also, this section does not cover electronic sales of the book. They are in section 15. If I were organizing this document, I would put them in this section. | Noah: Also, this section does not cover electronic sales of the book. They are in section 15. If I were organizing this document, I would put them in this section. | ||
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