2006-08-02 10:03:13 · 4 answers · asked by Gaddy Z 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
You find out who holds the copyright on the book you are interested in, and contact (or their lawyer) them for license to publish it. It is very unusual for someone to sell all the rights to their book.
2006-08-02 10:08:31 · answer #1 · answered by old lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Contact the publisher and someone will contact the copyright holder, which is usually the author.
And in response to some of the other answers: the author usually owns the copyright, not the publisher.
2006-08-02 18:08:36 · answer #2 · answered by Lady J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't. The author doesn't own the rights, The publishing houses own them.. Just a question: Why would want to republish an inflection idea? Find someone, up and working, like me.
Jer
2006-08-02 10:14:51 · answer #3 · answered by yahoooo reject 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically, you don't. If you're talking about already published books, the pub houses own the rights....and they're very unlikely to sell them to you.
If you're talking about directly from the author, unpublished works-- well you buy them from the author.
2006-08-02 10:25:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋