: Re: Co-branding a book with a website For the last several months, I've had a a professional assignment writing an ongoing series for a well-known website. It was repurposed from a book I wasn't

@Nimeshi163

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Although I don't have experience working with a publisher, “co-brand,” and author, I did work on the flip side of this as part of the publishing company/co-brand.

We reprinted seven or eight books by an author who had previously printed them thirty years ago with a different publisher. He still owned the copyright and was able to work with us, without informing the previous company.

We wrote up a contract and negotiated how much he was paid for a flat rate, how we now had part of the copyright, and how much we could change based on this newfound copyright ownership. (We only printed KJV Bible verses, but this author used other versions of scripture. Basically, we needed permission to swap to our preferred version which he happily agreed on. Also, we corrected grammar mistakes and spelling just to be professional.)

Because we worked on this agreement with him, he received some money, and we received funding and had our branding as the publisher.

All this to say, if you have the copyright to your work, you shouldn't need their permission to have it printed. If you want them to be the “co-brand,” then they will definitely want their logo included, their name and possible links on the inside, and some profit from it. Considering you have the copyright, a flat rate fee should be plenty for them, but ultimately you must discuss it with the company.

You may even want to find a publisher first and see how much you'd be paying, and how much you'd get paid to have this printed. You'd be splitting it with the co-brand after all if they do in fact agree to work with you.

Just my two cents. Hope this helps some!

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