Foreign Rights - a First-Hand Accounting

The following is a post placed on a publishing list serv to which I subscribe. 'Thought you'd like to see some first-hand accounting of foreign rights experiences, and the interaction the author had with our most recent Expert, Bob Erdmann. We also had a couple members of www.PublishingProsperity.com contact Bob about representing their booklets at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair.

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Hi Susan, foreign rights are hard to predict. I have a Self-Help book and I
used a foreign rights agent (Bob Erdmann) for about 4 years and he got my book
in 55 countries. The funny thing about that is that the book is only so so
in the US. You just never know how it will be received overseas, and it
changes each year. There is very little correlation between what sells in the
US and overseas. What was hot in one country is cold the next and then
another area warms up to the book, it is crazy. I stopped pursuing foreign
rights for my book as I thought I had covered most of the areas it had
merit, and the world book market seems to be in decline right now.

Here is contact info for Bob Erdman boberdmann@aol.com I believe it will
cost around $200 to have him take your book to Frankfurt.

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Are you thinking about exploring foreign rights or taking action on it? The choice is and always will be yours.

Until next time,
Paulette - realizing the value of balancing the plan with the action


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