The Rights Tab - Sales Rights

The Rights tab is the area where you will define what sales rights you hold for a book, in other words, where you can sell your title. It does not refer to the editions you sell to other publishers who translate and publish them in different languages. For UK publishers, for instance, the sales rights refers to the English language edition. Please note that the sales rights are  mandatory information in your bibliographic data feeds.

You will need to fill in this information separately for each edition (HB or PB).

There are many different aspects to the rights' section. It is important that each area is clearly understood. There are also a number of sub tabs within the Rights' section. 

• AI Rights Description: Choose the appropriate item from the drop down menu. This list is used to populate AIs 
• Rights Comments: A free text field for populating AIs. 
• Rights Type*: Choose the appropriate item from the drop-down menu. The item most often used for books originated by you as the publisher will be 1 – For sale with exclusive rights in the specified country/ies. If you are an organisation that distributes/sells titles for smaller publishers, you will probably use 2 - For sale with non-exclusive rights.
• Territory: Use the drop-down menu; this will most likely be WORLD. Leave this blank if you intend to specify the countries below. Use either the country OR the territory for each row (NOT BOTH); use multiple rows for multiple countries. This will make more sense a bit further down this article.
• Adding new territories: You may want to add new territories to your system to avoid having to list out a set of countries. If you have only European rights for a title, for instance, it will be much easier to simply grab Europe from the drop down menu rather than having to tick every country within Europe individually. You can establish new territories that will then appear in your drop-down menu through Territory Admin Section.
• Country: Choose the appropriate items from the drop-down menu. You can select multiple countries for each rights type. Leave this blank if you have specified the Territory.

Please note that you have to also specify positive rights (ie where you can sell the title) if you are going to be making it specific which countries or territories you DON'T have the rights for. If your title is NOT available in the USA, Japan and Australia, for instance, you would need to add a separate line stating that the rights are also for sale in Rest of World (ROW). The following image demonstrates what we mean:

Click Update when you are finished.

You should review the information held in the Rights sub tabs. Then move on to the Blurbs tab where you will add further rich content about your book.

Tips & Tricks

You can also upload your rights data in bulk, via spreadsheet upload.

For general guidance on Bulk Uploading Data, see here.

For specific guidance on uploading rights data in bulk, see here.