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Agents: 'scrap high discount clauses'

Publication Date: Mon, 30/01/2012 - 10:20

Leading authors' representatives have called for high discount clauses in publishing contracts to be scrapped in favour of "a whole new system" of royalties, with some publishers saying they would support a shift to a net receipts system.

High discount clauses see authors receive a diminished proportion of the headline...

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