Services to authors

AuthorNet

AuthorNet is an online facility where Cambridge authors can view their royalty statements; access information about all stages of the publishing process, including initial submission; and order books online – at discounts of 40% off their own books, 30% off any other Cambridge books and 20% off journals subscriptions.

Rights

Cambridge University Press sells translations of its books into scores of foreign languages each year, working proactively through its established network of relationships with leading publishers across the globe, and welcoming any new contact with a foreign publisher that an author might propose. While the main languages in to which Cambridge books are translated are Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Italian – with Korean, Greek, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Russian and French not far behind – Cambridge regularly licenses translations into languages such as Turkish, Bahasa Indonesia, Arabic and Finnish. The Press also licenses regional English-language reprints, bilingual editions and digitization rights.

Permissions

Cambridge's Permissions staff field thousands of requests each year from authors, teachers, publishers and administrators who, for various reasons, want to include extracts from Cambridge publications in their works: in print and electronic format, in English and in translation. They also handle requests for network licences, performing rights, Braille and photocopying. They investigate the rights status of each request, and grant permission where possible, sometimes for a fee and sometimes for free (depending on the nature of the request and the amount of material involved). Cambridge works closely with the national collective licensing organizations (for example the Copyright Licensing Agency in the UK and the Copyright Clearance Center in the US) to ensure that general photocopying and digital copying of Press materials in schools, libraries, government sectors and commercial companies are properly monitored and remunerated. It serves notice-and-takedown orders on people discovered to be infringing our copyright on the internet, as well as supporting the work of trade associations and national governments to clamp down on large-scale book piracy.

Digital business

Cambridge's Digital Business team forges new ground each month by finding fresh ways increase the circulation of Cambridge books through electronic outlets of various kinds. Sales of our books are now made as downloads to PCs and hand-held devices; through online library-style services; through subscription, aggregator, short-term rental and other developing business models, and as sales of access to fragments (for example by chapter, or pay-per-view).

Royalties

The author usually receives a percentage of income from all deals. Our busy Finance Department, working with IT colleagues, administers some 25,000 active author royalty accounts and manages the allocation of rights income from many thousands of transactions. Our Legal Services Department issues close to 2000 contracts each year. Cambridge authors are now kept abreast of all of these services and offered a number of others via AuthorNet.