Comments on: Oxford Books Online

By: AB

AB — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 12:35:14 +0000

Many thanks for this link, it’s really great!

By: nick

nick — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 23:03:14 +0000

Ah, that explains one of the bracketed-out clauses in the draft contract I just signed with OUP…

By: Michael Otsuka

Michael Otsuka — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 21:29:02 +0000

Generalizing from my own contract with OUP, I think they’re just taking 5% of the net receipts from university library subscriptions and distributing that equally among all authors with books online. So an author’s royalties are unaffected by the number of hits his online book receives.

By: Chris Bertram

Chris Bertram — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 09:37:35 +0000

I notice Harry’s School Choice and Social Justice is there.

By: eszter

eszter — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 06:51:46 +0000

I wonder to what extent OUP is tracking what books people are looking at.. and how they are compensating authors for books that are thus not bought in hard copy. Has anyone seen a contract between author and book publisher that specifies royalties for this new scheme?

By: Jon H

Jon H — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 05:23:40 +0000

Looks like it’s only available through institutions. ie, John Q. Public can’t get his own personal subscription.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 04:41:22 +0000

This is the coolest thing ever.

By: enthymeme

enthymeme — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 01:14:29 +0000

Yeah I posted the same thing somewhere a few days ago. I got it from Michael Green’s weblog at Chicago.

By: Geoff Pynn

Geoff Pynn — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 00:32:58 +0000

This is absolutely amazing. It’s not just recent books, either. Classics by Marcus, Lewis, Parfit, Austin and more.