Holger Merlitz' book on binoculars, 2nd edition (1 Viewer)

[Canip]

I translated the index of Holger‘s book into English, so why don‘t you do the rest?

 

[wllmspd]

I translated the index of Holger‘s book into English, so why don‘t you do the rest?

Love to, but >200pages would take some time, Not sure the world would appreciate MS/google translated bino lingo....

Peter

 

[NDhunter]

Holger:

I would like to buy your book, in English. Too bad you lost your rights to that decision.

I am wondering why you would do that. You should be in control of your own property.

Jerry

 

[PeterPS]

Holger:

I would like to buy your book, in English. Too bad you lost your rights to that decision.

I am wondering why you would do that. You should be in control of your own property.

Jerry

When you publish a book with a major publishing house you sign a copyright agreement
that transfers the copyright to the publisher. I have published books with several publishers (such as Prentice Hall, Wiley , Springer, Academic Press, Cambridge University Press, Marcel Dekker, CRC Press, IEEE Press) and all of them required a copyright transfer agreement. I have recommended Holger's book to my contacts at Cambridge University Press, and initially they were interested but unfortunately they could not fit the book into their program, as Holger mentioned in post #17.

 

[wllmspd]

Common practice. A former colleague had to wait till the agreed eights period was over before he could consider publishing a revised edition. I do hope we can find a suitable way for an English version. With print on demand I wonder if Holger existing published would be interested in an English version, let Amazon do the hard work?

Peter

 

[jring]

Hi,

I'm not a lawyers, but afaik it is not possible to transfer the copyright of a work from the author to a 3rd party under german law (Urheberrechtsgesetz aka Urhg) unless the author has died and the copyright is part of the inheritance.
If this was done in some contract, said contract might be null and void and a specialised lawyer should be contacted about possible legal steps.

It is however possible to sign an agreement for an exclusive license for all countries and languages and probably too without a time limitation which might lead to the situation described...

Joachim

 

[yarrellii]

In Spain (that's what I know from books I've published) the writer owns the rights, but he/she «lends» those rights to the publisher (Penguin, Larousse) for a number of years, as stated in the contract (it can be 5, it can be 10 or 15). Once that time expires, the rights are yours again and another publisher can re-publish the work. But within those years, I'm afraid you have to wait (or else maybe pay an extraordinary fee to the original publisher in order for the rights to be released, but this latter point is a mere guess).

 

[jcbouget]

Obviously, learning German language should take less time that waiting for an English version ||
So, now I think the question is: do you know a site to learn German language? ||

 

[jring]

Obviously, learning German language should take less time that waiting for an English version ||
So, now I think the question is: do you know a site to learn German language? ||

Hi,

I think it is about as easy to learn french for a foreigner ;-) Although getting to the level of just being able to read and understand a technical text on a topic you have some knowledge about is one of the easier tasks...

Maybe scanning the pages of the german copy you bought, running it through OCR and using google translate is probably easier...

An ebook version would maybe help with that by eliminating the scanning and OCR, although if one exists it is probably DRMed to not allow copy paste...

Joachim