From: Bill Cohen <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:02:05 -0400 At Haworth Press we gave journal article authors 50% of any subsidiary rights. True, the amounts were not high, but author satisfaction in getting an unexpected check for $200 or $300 was enormous. Bill On 4/10/13 2:54 PM, LIBLICENSE wrote: > From: "Hamaker, Charles" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 21:01:43 +0000 > > I was told tracking individual payments for journal articles was too > insignificant and too much trouble when I asked about this at Pergamon > Press and then Elsevier. > > Chuck Hamaker > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 00:21:05 -0500 > > It is not universally true that revenues from reprint and other > subsidiary rights sales are not shared with authors of journal > articles. In this respect, at Penn State University Press, we treated > our journal authors in the same way as we treated our book authors, > sharing income from most subsidiary rights 50/50. We are not the only > publisher that pursued this practice either. It is not clear to me why > most publishers decided not to treat journal and book authors the same > way. Perhaps some other publisher can explain the rationale for the > difference in treatment. > > Sandy Thatcher