Knowledge Zone
A Beginner’s Guide to Selling Rights
Knowing how to ‘sell rights’ can feel a little daunting, if it is an area of publishing that you have not had much experience of. For those who are ‘new to rights’ our short, 10 step guide will guide you through the basics of selling rights, so that you can make the...
Permissions: Publishing’s Lost Revenue Source
Imagine that you had a business for which you had (without any marketing or sales spend), a steady stream of customers ready and willing to part with their cash to get their hands on your stuff. It would be amazing, wouldn’t it? And you would do everything you...
Top Tips for Frankfurt Bookfair Follow-up
There is always so much to think about before you head off to the Frankfurt Bookfair. There is lots of nervous excitement. There is lots of preparation before you go. If it is your first time attending Frankfurt Bookfair, check out our blog, written just for you: Top...
Top Tips for a First Timer at Frankfurt Bookfair
If you have never attended the Frankfurt Bookfair or “Messe” in person before, you are in for a real treat! There are a huge number of stands spread across several large exhibition halls representing many different aspects of the publishing industry. There are...
Rights Jobs for the Summer
For many rights teams, summer is a *slightly* quieter time, with colleagues and clients away and emails and meetings beginning to slow down a little.
Here are 5 suggestions for productive summer tidy up jobs that you could get on with to help you feel organised…and the best bit, with RightsZone these good to do jobs are even easier.
Raising the profile of rights
What's going on? The recent white paper, Rights Management in Publishing: How effective management of rights can improve publishers’ profitability’, published by Publishers Licensing Services, revealed that only just over half of publishers surveyed budget for rights...
Case Study – Taylor and Francis
For this case study, we met with Tim and Adele from Taylor & Francis to speak with them about their experience of moving over to RightsZone. We discussed what prompted the decisions, the process of transferring an extensive amount of data and the advantages they...
How RightsZone Can Save You Time
RightsZone works when you work, wherever you work. As long as you have an internet connection, you can get access to all of your rights contacts, projects, submission and deals data, whenever you need it. You can even use RightsZone via a mobile-friendly app. So, if...
Just How Reliant are Publishers on Rights Revenue?
If you’ve been following the PRH/S&S merger trial, you might have seen this quote “50% of published books sell fewer than 12 copies” which was amongst many slightly odd statistics to have come out of the proceedings. It has received a fair amount of attention on...
RightsZone Knowhow: Dealing with Audio Rights
This blog post was inspired by the fantastic speakers at the Rights2gether audio event in June 2018, Jo Forshaw, Kim Williams and Jenna Brown. Demand for audio content has grown enormously over the last few years and digital audiobooks are currently the fastest...
RightsZone Knowhow: Dealing with TV and Film Rights
This blog post was inspired by the fantastic speakers at the Rights2gether event in January 2021, Adele Parker, Head of Rights at Taylor and Francis and Emma Topping, Literary and Multimedia Agent, owner of Viv Loves Film. Getting a request from a TV or film...
Remote Working? RightsZone Can Help
From contacts to submissions, contracts to payments you can manage all your rights jobs on RightsZone from wherever you happen to be – whether that’s basking on a beach in the Bahamas or self-isolating in the back bedroom. Your cloud-based companion Built on...