In 2009, more than 30 participants from 18 countries attended the seminar. Ed Glover and guest speaker Susanne Koppe introduced them to the world of rights trading for children's and teen books.

Seminar 2010: Selling translation rights as licences and co-editions

The seminar is post-entry training for rights people, editors and illustrators of children's and teen books. It is held in English.

Programme

In the course of a day, the aim of the Quick Rights International Seminar is to improve and expand upon participant’s knowledge of the different ways and means in which rights are traded - whether buying or selling - and to provide a forum in which particular and general issues can be addressed, discussed and answered. The seminar will cover key contractual points, royalty calculations, co-edition pricing, terms of trade, scheduling and the lifecycle of a typical rights sale.

Contents

• Royalty calculations
• Terms of trade
• Key contractual clauses
• Scheduling
• Identifying rights potential and
• Influencing product development
• Lifecycle of a typical rights sale

Seminar leader

Ed Glover trained as a librarian and worked for the British Consulate in France, then studied Publishing and History at Oxford Brookes where he specialized in what was then the relatively low-profile field of Subsidiary Rights. However, as rights’ income grew in importance, Ed’s knowledge of that enabled him to gain rapid promotion: first to Rights Manager of Phaidon Press, then hired by Robert Maxwell to become Rights Director of Macdonald Publishers, and eventually invited by Paul Hamlyn to become Sales & Marketing Director of Octopus.

After two years studying for his MBA at Westminster University, Ed left corporate publishing in 1992 to start his own business, Transedition. This was a marketing operation that purchased English language rights from European publishers in order to sell them on in English as co-editions to publishers in all the major English speaking countries. In 1997 this operation was enhanced by the creation of Translate-A-Book, a book translation agency for publishers. More recently, Ed has been developing a range of children’s books in paper and digital formats the first of these multi-media titles will be published under the new imprint, Camelot Editions.

Guest Speaker

Susanne Koppe studied German language and literature, educational theory and psychology in Munich, as well as children’s literature at Simmons College in Boston, USA. In 1989, she began in publishing, first as a literary scout with Beltz & Gelberg and then later with Bertelsmann. She also worked as a journalist for several important German newspapers. She also did translation work, was a facilitator for literature from foreign publishing companies and helped to set up the “FILU” archive for illustrators. In 1997, Susanne Koppe took over as head of the “Rotfuchs” children’s book programme at Rowohlt Verlag. In 2002, she founded her own literary agency for children’s books and illustrations, “Auserlesen - Ausgezeichnet”. (www.auserlesen-ausgezeichnet.de)

The seminar fee of 270 € (VAT included) covers all seminar materials, coffee-breaks and lunch and will be invoiced to participants before the seminar.

The inscription is possible now, please use the application form:

Application for the seminar 2010