: Re: Is it acceptable to reuse chapters across multiple books? I am writing a college textbook/workbook to correspond with some courses I teach. Once finished, I'll have about 30 chapters. Rather than

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I have a friend who sometimes reused chapters from one book to another. Each time he reused a chapter, he included a note mentioning where the chapter was first published.

His books were all with the same publisher, though. To do this across publishers, you'd have to take care with the copyrights, and with how you license rights to each publisher. Seems complicated to me, but a copyright lawyer would probably know what to do.

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