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I am in search of a new firewall. We have an office of 35 with expected growth in the next 2 years of up to 50. We currently have 1 cable modem access up to about 16MB Up 4MB Down (Thinking T1 in the future). We are interested in setting up VPN's for up to 10 users. Although we don't have any branch offices, we may go point to point for the Partners at our firm.
I like the Astaro ASG 220, Calyptix AE1200, Sonicwall 2400 and Watchguard 510. My concern with Astaro is the Support, specifically the response time and attention. My concern with Calyptix is that they don't have much brand recognition. Sonicwall doesn't seem to have all the features that I would want that the Astaro and Calyptix have. The newer Watchguard's sounds great, but I worked with one about 5 years ago and couldn't stand the GUI.
I like having a gui and making my life easier. I want great features like URL filtering and reports of users by URL, as well as reporting to identify bandwidth hogs.
Thanks in advance.
Nov 2, 2011 at 1:24 UTC
I'm a big fan of the Astaro ASG's. I use about five 120's that work very well and have had them running for almost 5 years. We use a pairs in a VPN tunnel setup that links two sites seamlessly over 50 miles. The others use VPN tunnels to T-Mobile and AT&T, and a number of road warriors.
The wireless application points really make it nice to manage them all at once.
The RED boxes are really neat for our remote sites and road warriors.
Astaro's service has been great. Their local reseller here in Oklahoma ( mediasoftusa.com ) has been wonderful. Astaro's maintenance includes overnight replacement, and it's truly overnight replacement. Their online community is really great to help learn and tweak the environment.
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Nov 2, 2011 at 1:11 UTC
We have Watchguard and Untangle, and find each time Watchguard release a new software version, the icons change and settings are moved to another menu item.
We have 60 users and are considering Sonicwall
Nov 2, 2011 at 1:12 UTC
Not familiar with the Astaro or Calyptix, but wouldn't let that stop me if the tech and features are good. Support is important, which might steer me toward the Calyptix. When I started using WatchGuard and AppAssure, they didn't have much brand recognition, either.
I have used WatchGuard for years, and the GUI still looks much the same, but is a little more friendly than I remember from days past. It is a good product, but not as good a value now that it has more brand recognition. I look at switching every few years, and may this time.
Nov 2, 2011 at 1:20 UTC
@DazGrit I have been reading about Untangle and other products like that in conjunction to the Firewall. I don't have an extra box available to add it to nor do I really want to go that route. I'd prefer in all in one UTM on the firewall device.
@whopper That is great info. It makes me steer away from Watchguard and trust my instincts. Calyptix themselves claim to have good support. They are US based with US based tech support. They are small, admittedly so. I actually get a good feeling from them, but like I said was a little hessitant.
Nov 2, 2011 at 1:24 UTC
I'm a big fan of the Astaro ASG's. I use about five 120's that work very well and have had them running for almost 5 years. We use a pairs in a VPN tunnel setup that links two sites seamlessly over 50 miles. The others use VPN tunnels to T-Mobile and AT&T, and a number of road warriors.
The wireless application points really make it nice to manage them all at once.
The RED boxes are really neat for our remote sites and road warriors.
Astaro's service has been great. Their local reseller here in Oklahoma ( mediasoftusa.com ) has been wonderful. Astaro's maintenance includes overnight replacement, and it's truly overnight replacement. Their online community is really great to help learn and tweak the environment.
Nov 2, 2011 at 1:24 UTC
Untangle is an all in one bit of kit, we've got 3 lines going in our one, very powerful but I you need patience with it
Nov 2, 2011 at 1:31 UTC
@mpk It is good to here that you really like the Astaro ASG's. I LOVE the idea of the RED boxes. Astaro seems really great. If I have nothing to fear with the support, I can see them being an easy choice
@DazGrit I have good patience, but I don't know that I want too jump into Untangle yet. I'm thinking, minimum of 2 - 3 years away. By then I'll be purchasing all new servers and have a whole different office setup.
Nov 2, 2011 at 2:10 UTC
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We had a Watchguard 750e which we recently replaced with a Watchguard XTM 510. We have been extremely happy with it. There is a simple web UI or a set of GUI tools you can install.
Nov 2, 2011 at 2:49 UTC
We have a Watchguard Firebox x1250e here at the main office and a SonicWall at each of our remote offices. Watchguard is a solid product, but the learning curve leaves much to be desired. I'm no rookie when it comes to firewalls, but I've had a hell of a time figuring this thing out.
I prefer SonicWall, by far. It's much more user friendly and usually cheaper. I've rarely had an issue with them.
I have not had much experience with the other products mentioned.
Nov 2, 2011 at 3:14 UTC
Right now, I think the best "Next Generation Firewall" UTM is Palo Alto Networks. They are a little pricey, but well worth it. They invented application awareness several years ago and are years ahead of the competition. Everyone else is scrambling to catch up. We purchased a PA-500 earlier this year after much research and a botched attempt at a McAfee 410F Enterprise appliance. We also looked at SonicWall, Astaro, and Watchguard. You can Google for Gartner Network's Magic Quadrant and should find out more about why Palo Alto is the name to beat.
First of all, I'm going to focus on application awareness, which is only a component of UTM in this post, because this is the biggest differentiator between firewall models. That being said, PAN firewalls are very strong in UTM.
If you're just now buying a firewall that you plan on keeping in service for several years, I think you would do yourself a disservice is you do not get a "next generation" firewall with application awareness WITH a default positive eforcement model, NOT negative enforcement (like an IPS).
Why? Simply put, instead of say, seeing port 80 traffic as HTTP traffic that is all the same, it looks at the packets themselves and determines, "Hey, that's a Facebook chat packet", or a bittorrent, or Google Maps, or dropbox, etc. It in effect lets you do things like allow Facebook, but not facebook apps, and only let the marketing department post comments.
The difference that the PA has over other vendors (SonicWall, Astaro, and McAfee, as I talked to engineers at each company), is that PAN is the only device using positive enforcement. The others all use negative enforcement. So, by default, NOTHING gets through the PA unless you allow the application (unless you set it to just use port 80 as the control mechanism, bypassing the application awareness). It doesn't matter what port Kazaa uses, the PAN will see it for what it is and block it, unless you allow it. Positive enforcement at the application level means unless you explicitly allow it, it does not get through. So yeah, sometime someone will complain that they can't get a website to work correctly, which means I have to identify what application it is using that is currently not allowed, then add that to the rule.
The other vendors (at least when I researched it around March-May 2011 timeframe) use a negative enforcement methodology... packet comes in, it's port 80, let's see if any applications are defined that should block it. It's like an IPS...run the packet against a list of thousands of "bad" applications and see if there is a match, and if so, block it.
Like I said, we bought a McAfee and struggled with it for several months (it really should have still been in beta...I found and logged two bugs on installation day, and had a total of 11 bugs in their system before I got fed up and demanded my money back). At the end of the day, this firewall, as well as SonicWall and Astaro (at least earlier this year), all use negative enforcement, and the application awareness is designed to be used for deny traffic rules, not for allow traffic rules.
If you want to specify only what you want to allow and block everything else, then you have to go positive enforcement, which means the only option is Palo Alto Networks.
With the McAfee we ran into problems where an application would get allowed because some other application had HTTP as the parent protocol and since the application in question had the same parent, it was allowed. Trust me, we went over this for hours with their tech support (they are very good), but in the end, I was told that I should only use application awareness to deny rules, and that was an architectural decision that would require re-working the entire engine. From conversations with SonicWall and Astaro, and reading other things, it looks like firewall vendors are taking their existing engines and trying to add the application awareness functionality on top of it, whereas PAN designed it from the ground up that way.
The one downside to the PAN firewalls is that there is currently no VPN client for Android or iPhone devices (although rumor is it's imminent for at least the iPhone).
Hope this helps, I know it's a little long-winded, but since firewalls last for years, I think you should go for state of the art. By the next firewall refresh most vendors' application awareness should be more mature and there'll be more players, but right now, Palo Alto Networks is the top dog (and they had top IPS system in IGN or Network World's testing too).
Nov 2, 2011 at 3:27 UTC
@afeitguy & @Britton3589 Thanks for chiming in for the Watchguards. The information is much appreciated. I'm still not sure that they are right for me and my environment.
@raftech You say it may have been a little long-winded, but it is truly very appreciated. There are so many network device company's out there, I don't think we would all know about them, so thank you for bring them to my attention. I am looking into them now and will try out a demo.
Nov 2, 2011 at 4:17 UTC
@Ryan2656 You are actually the reason I considered Calyptix. I have seen some of your other posts and they got me interested. I have been working with Adam Morse, who has been great. I had reservations about your company only because of the brand recognition. I understand Calyptix has been around for about 8 years, but I haven't seen anyone online with one of the boxes. I just think it would make me feel more comfortable if I saw someone with one.
Can anyone else chime in (Ty Ryan and Whopper) on Calyptix or even the option of going with smaller less known company's?
Nov 2, 2011 at 4:45 UTC
@Ryan2656... Ok wait your company is recommending users to block outbound https traffic and only allow some https based on ip address or site name? Are you kidding? So does your product have the ability to proxy ssl traffic? You may be new to this company but "proxy" ssl inspection as you say has been around for awhile... it's not new. SSL inspection is basically a man-in-the-middle attack and a lot of firewalls including palo alto networks have the ability to scan ssl traffic. SSL scanning is important but the more importantly is application control and DLP. So users go to facebook http or https but what are they doing on facebook? What info are they sending? I don't see any info for application control or DLP for your product.
Nov 2, 2011 at 4:47 UTC
"The only way to block Facebook over https is at the layer 3 level, by blocking the IPs"
This is not a true statement... Try looking higher up the stack at layer 7.
Nov 2, 2011 at 5:59 UTC
PCGUY07, I would look at Fortinets FortiGate product line. A 110c/111c or a 200B would be a good fit. FortiGate has a wireless controller, app control, IPS, DLP, SSL Scanning, IPv6, wan optimization, VPN (IPSEC, PPTP, SSL) web filter, av filter, ICAP protocol, WCCP client/server. You can also split the unit into multiple virtual firewalls (VDOMs). If Fortinet is not your thing then go with a Sonicwall or Watchguard.
Nov 2, 2011 at 7:03 UTC
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I would seriously take a good look at the Sonicwalls again. I have used Astaro, Fortigate, Cisco (don't get me started) and Watchguard. For the business i'm running, sonicwall was the choice i ended up going with. The newer OS and interface (and yes, i completely agree the older interface--such as on the pro-2400 and 4600 firewall/switch left alot to be desired) but currently I am running twin NSA-3500's in a high availablity/fault tolerant setup, and they have yet to let me down. We have about 400 site to site IPSec VPN connections, and have no issues with them. Frankly, if you want a GUI that is very straight forewards and easy to understand, the real time monitoring that is build into all of the new sonicwalls is something to seriously look at. Secondly, Sonicwall's GMS (global management system) does some very nice reporting--you do have to set up a SQL database on a server somewhere else in the company (i'm running it off of a vmserver) but if you want daily, or even hourly reports of websites visited, bandwidth usage, filtered web site attempts, data usage, bandwith hogs...it's all there in a very organized fashion. As far as response times, in the very few issues i have had with the sonicwalls (i have 24/7 support) i usually have someone from sonicwall responding within hours (4 has been the longest i've dealt with)
Another part of the GMS System--you can control all of the sonicwalls from one screen--which having 400 connected to our NSA's make my life a hell of alot easier. The newest feature that they added was app blocking--such as the facebook that was mentioned above. You can sit and watch the real time monitoring and if there is something you want blocked, you click on it, click block and it's taken care of. All of the sonicwalls from the tz210 up have support for sonicwall's sonicpoint--their wireless access points (which also include the ability to create multiple sub-wireless networks within the access point--specifically to restrict access.
I dealt with Cisco and Astaro for about 4-5 years. After getting to know the sonicwalls inside and out...i'll never go back.
Ultimately it's up to you, but for the flexibility, speed and very straightforewards way of configuring on the sonicwalls, i would really look into them.
Nov 3, 2011 at 1:38 UTC
+1 for PaloAlto if you have the budget
+1 for Watchguard otherwise. The XTM line of products is great and offers a lot of the features that PaloAlto does for a fraction of the price. The interface has gotten much better in the last few years. I mainly use the WSM GUI as apposed to the WebUI. I have used Fortigate, Astaro, Barracuda, and Cisco UTM devices in the past and have found all of them lacking compared to the Watchguard XTM. The Application Control, Reputation Enabled Defense (RED), Web Blocker, and Gateway AV are all top notch. I do not like the spam filtering and continue to use a Barracuda Spam Filter for that.
Nov 3, 2011 at 6:37 UTC
FYI the Palo Alto can inspect SSL traffic as an SSL proxy, which is what we're doing.
Nov 4, 2011 at 12:20 UTC
FYI the Palo Alto can inspect SSL traffic as an SSL proxy, which is what we're doing.
As does the WatchGuard XTM hardware
Nov 8, 2011 at 6:56 UTC
With the workforce of just 10, how do you keep up with the demand in support calls?
We have Sonicwall NSA 2400 and for the most part we are very happy with it. One thing I don't like is the Viewpoint logging that we run on a separate box, sort of defeats the purpose of a UTM.. other then that my NSA runs like a champ.
Nov 8, 2011 at 7:18 UTC
Guys, Just so you know, I decided to go with the Astaro ASG 220. Thanks for all your help in deciding. I truly feel this is the best product for me. I'll let you know how things go. Thanks again.
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Foreign rights, film sales, merchandising--these are all subsidiary rights.
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How does a publisher decide your book is out of print, and what does that mean for you?
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Contracts are not sexy.
I taught a course on publishing contracts at The Loft Literary Center recently–a long-held dream come true–and one of the first things I told my students is that contracts are not sexy.
It's easy to glamorize the publishing industry and the life of a writer. It can seem like an endless swirl of cover reveals and starred reviews and book tours. Even the difficult parts can be romanticized: the struggle to put words on the page, to find an agent, to land a deal.
But it's also important to remember that, for those who publish, writing is a career. I'm passionate about publishing contracts because I want to help empower writers to take control of their careers. And I believe the single most important thing a writer can do to take control of their career is read and understand their contract.
If you have a publishing contract have you ever read it? I mean really read it, not just skipped ahead to the section detailing your advance payments, or grinned like a maniac at the sight of your name on the signature line. I know a lot of authors haven't. And I get it. Contracts are intimidating. They're long, full of a lot of complicated language, and sometimes have entire clauses dedicated to things that will never happen (Force Majeure, anyone?).
I implore you to read yours.
If you have representation, your agent should be well-versed in contracts and will handle all the negotiations on your behalf. So in that case it isn't particularly important for you to force yourself to read through your entire contract, right? Wrong.
Your agent isn't a party to the contract; you are. You are required to meet all contractual obligations and you should know what they are and what happens if you don't or can't meet them. You should know how your current contract affects your future books. You should know how long the Publisher will own the rights to your work, and when and how you can get those rights back. You should know what warranties you're making to the Publisher, and be sure they're all true. Even if your agent negotiated the best possible deal for you, it's still your responsibility to understand the terms.
Writers today have more resources at their fingers tips than ever before. If you have an agent, use that resource. After you've read your contract ask your agent to explain things that you don't understand. If you don't have an agent, ask your editor. Talk to other authors. Google. And do it before you sign.
I have heard so many horror stories from writers who did not properly read their contracts. Some signed on with scam Publishers and got their hearts broken and their books ruined. Some signed on with well-respected Publishers, and were unhappy to discover that their contract was more restrictive than they had assumed.
I know as a culture we're conditioned to scroll to the bottom of User Terms and Conditions and click "agree" without so much as a backward glance; I'm guilty of it, too. But don't be so cavalier with something as precious as your intellectual property. Don't be so indifferent about the fate of your career. I've worked in publishing for a long time doing many different things, but the most valuable insider advice I can give you is to read your contract.
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Guy and Doll have agreed that Guy will act as Doll directs, and that Doll is entitled to use force or punishment to get Guy to do as she directs if he ever demurs or falls short. Guy has contracted to be Doll's slave. Such contracts are familiar from fiction and from history; and some people may have familiarity with them in contemporary life. It is common for philosophers to argue that such contracts are impossible.
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It's important to understand the rights in your contract that the publisher may want to keep.
Negotiating contracts is more than just getting the biggest advance.
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Contracts can be overwhelming, so here are some things to look for in your agency contract.
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Even if you have an agent, it's important to understand how the sale of foreign rights works.
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Have you ever had to tell an editor you wouldn't be meeting your deadline? That's an uncomfortable conversation for any writer. But for Dorothy Parker—one of America's greatest literary wits—it was so excruciating she simply couldn't face it, and the consequences were nearly devastating.
In 1929, Harold Guinzburg and George Oppenheimer—the young entrepreneurs who founded Viking Press—convinced Parker to sign a contract for a novel, and deliver it in under a year. That's high pressure for most writers. But for Parker, who often took six months to complete a short story, it was shooting for the impossible. Indeed, she was so slow and cautious in her fiction writing that she once remarked, "I can't write five words but that I change seven."
Still, she was determined to join the ranks of the contemporaries she so admired, such as Fitzgerald and Hemingway, and left for Europe to work on her book. By the end of 1930, her deadline had passed and she had nothing to show for it except one long (and often hilarious) letter she had written to her publishers over the summer. (Complete letter available as an ebook from Penguin Classics with an introduction by Marion Meade. See Alpine Giggle Week: How Dorothy Parker Set Out to Write the Great American Novel and Ended Up in a TB Colony Atop an Alpine Peak.)
And so she sailed back to the U.S. to tell the young Viking founders in person that she had failed. The conversation, however, never happened. Too distressed to face them, she attempted suicide by swallowing poisonous shoe polish. Fortunately for those of us who cherish the stories, essays, poems and reviews she wrote in the years that followed, Parker only succeeded in making herself terribly ill, and several months later she recovered.
She never did deliver on the manuscript. In the 1970s, Viking reported that their agreement with Dorothy Parker was the longest unfulfilled contract in the company's history. In the intervening years, however, they contracted with Parker to edit a collection of works by her friend F. Scott Fitzgerald. She struggled writing the introduction and simply couldn't complete it. It was 1945, and facing her editor with this failure wasn't any easier than it had been fifteen years earlier.
Fortunately, however, Parker found a less dangerous way to avoid the confrontation: she sent him a telegram. And while most of Parker's papers were destroyed, this small treasure (complete with a spelling error that is probably the teletypist's), still exists to remind us that even our literary heroes struggled putting words on a page.
Ellen Meister is a novelist, essayist, public speaker and creative writing instructor at Hofstra University (Hempstead, NY). She runs a popular Dorothy Parker page on Facebook that has over 130,000 followers. Her novels include Farewell, Dorothy Parker (Putnam 2013) and The Other Life (Putnam 2011).
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With the advent of digital media, it's more important than ever to understand the reversion clause in your contract.
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What's involved in getting the rights to your book back from your publisher?
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There are many tactics an agent should be using when negotiating a contract.
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Things that should be covered in your agency contract.
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I think you're going to see a lot of blog posts based on the restructuring of Berkley/NAL. It's when something like this happens that I find myself with a whole slew of new ideas. Usually based on conversations we're having in the office or with clients.
One of these conversations involves the midlist. For those who don't know, the midlist is defined as those books that fall in the middle of a publisher's list. They aren't the top sellers (not always bestsellers, but those books that sell the most) and they aren't at the bottom, those books with sales so low that they just aren't salvageable. You know, books that only sell 2,000 copies. Ever.
Midlist books are those books that are selling moderately well, have solid sales, but just aren't pushing to top selling status. They could be mysteries, romance, nonfiction, paperback, hardcover. They could be anything because it's not about the genre, but about sales.
One of the things the Berkley/NAL conversation has brought up is the death of the midlist. The same death I've been morning since my first day in publishing. I mean, I've been around long enough now that I think I can say that's a freakishly long mourning period.
Here's the truth as I see it where the midlist is concerned. Authors who languish in the midlist are not going to be given contract after contract just to remain midlist authors. That's not what the midlist is about (at least not these days). The midlist is a place for publishers to grow authors from. Its where great books go to grow. A publisher will always have a midlist of some sort because a publisher will always be buying new books from new authors and somewhere along the way someone is going to have numbers that aren't top selling numbers, but aren't at the bottom either. When those authors come along the publisher is going to look at those numbers to see which direction they are going and what can be done to boost that author, those books and those numbers into the top selling range.
When rumors abound that a publisher is cutting the midlist it isn't mean that a publisher is taking out one kind of book over another, it means the publisher is making room for more. Have I ever told you that I'm an eternal optimist?
Books that languish in the midlist, that are selling a little less with every new book (in a series for example) aren't making money for a publisher and aren't growing an author's career. And that is always the goal, whenever an agent takes on a new client, whenever a publisher buys a new book and whenever an author sits down to write the goal is, and should always be, to grow that author's career. Not to languish in any list.
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With the restructuring at Berkley/NAL I've had a lot of great talks with clients about their careers and publishing careers in general. Unfortunately, in this case, we were forced to have these conversations because with any merger/restructuring, authors are going to feel the impact, good and bad.
When new people are in charge (of anything) things will change and in publishing that usually means the publisher will take a closer look at what's working and what's not and some authors will feel the fallout.
It is always difficult for an author to face the fact that something isn't working or is no longer working. There's nothing worse then putting everything you've got into a book series only to learn that your contract won't be renewed (that you won't be offered to write more books in the series). For every author during a time like this there's always a feeling of loss. I mean face it, I'm not sure there's any author who feels good about not finishing the story.
Sometimes though, that non-renewal might in fact be the smartest business decision anyone ever made for you.
For so many years writers spend all of their time focusing efforts on being published. An incredible goal to have. However, once you are published your goals need to change. No longer is your goal to be published, and it should always be bigger than just staying published. Your goal is now to build a career and continuing to write books that are reaching fewer and fewer readers with each book does not a career make.
In fact, there have been times when I've talked to my clients about ending a series even if the publisher is offering on more. If we can see the writing on the royalty reports and we know numbers are going down why would we want to continue on that road? It's certainly not building anything.
So instead of seeing a non-renewal as a personal insult or as a publisher who doesn't like the kind of thing you write, look at it for what it is, an opportunity to make some career shifts, something every business has to do from time to time. After all, Coca-Cola hasn't had the success it's had by only putting out a cola. When consumers wanted lemon lime they created Sprite and when water became trendy they added Dasani.
While every business owner will mourn the loss of books they love writing, no successful business owner closes the business. Instead she takes a close look at what the market is begging for or wants and checks her back pocket for which ideas fit those needs.
What the Authors' Guild Fair Contract Initiative has to say about book contracts.
If you don't have an agent, you need to know how to negotiate a contract.
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This week Kelly and JJ talk about CONTRACTS. Yes, contracts. No, it's not boring, we promise. Also, how Ernest Hemingway can help you write middle grade and how everything is still Hamilton. EVERYTHING WILL ALWAYS BE HAMILTON.
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We haven't written a ton on the subject of contracts here at PubCrawl, but here is a post by alumni Joanna Volpe and Jordan Hamessley-London:
TL;DR (or TL;DL for Too Long, Didn't Listen), the three most important clauses to which you should pay attention in your contract are:
- Rights of Termination
- Delivery
- Option/Non-Compete
Creative Endeavors
JJ is still working on her middle grade novel and is reading Ernest Hemingway for research. Not because her middle grade is about bullfighting and notions of masculinity, but because from a craft perspective, no one does spare yet emotionally resonant better than Hemingway.
Books Discussed This Week
- The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- Duck Sock Hop by Jane Kohuth, illustrated by Jane Porter
- Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
- the Regency romances of Georgette Heyer
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- the whimsical works of Diana Wynne Jones
- The Dark is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper
- The League of Seven by Alan Gratz
Off-Menu Recommendations
- Alpha Bear game
- Sailor Moon manga, the not-so-good TokyoPop versions and the much better Kodansha reissues
- Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne (Good news! It is translated into English!)
- Sandman by Neil Gaiman
- Saga by Brian K. Vaughan
- Miss Marvel by G. Willow Wilson
That's it for this week! Next week, we will be talking about how to take a story FROM BRAIN TO BOOK: A Look Into the Behind-the-Scenes Publishing Process. As always, if you have any questions or comments, sound off in the comments, or ask us on Tumblr!Add a Comment
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If you don't have an agent, you'll be responsible for negotiating your contracts.
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Does the publisher lose money if you're book doesn't sell well enough to cover your advance?
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I have an offer from a small press and I have no agent. The publisher is a nice guy, I don't think he's trying to rip me off or anything but how do I know if what he says about the number of copies sold is right?
Ahhh...this is why you want your contract to have an audit clause.
The audit clause generally comes right after the clause about how they'll pay you. It needs to contain a couple things to give it some teeth.
1. Make sure it says "The Author or the Author's designated representative may examine the books" Unless you're a CPA you won't know how to audit anything.
2. The publisher will limit the number of times you can audit to once a year, ask for reasonable notice, and probably limit the audit to information about your book (not the company as a whole.) Those things are reasonable to agree to.
3. The cost of the audit falls to the Author. However, make sure you include language that says if there is a discrepancy of more than 5% to the author's disadvantage, the cost of the audit is borne by the Publisher.
4. And make sure that if there is ANY discrepancy to the author's disadvantage that the Publisher has to pay the sum due within a certain amount of time. I ask for 30 days, and I've settled for 60. What I do NOT agree to is "next royalty statement" because in some cases that's a year away.
Without the audit clause you have no way to verify royalty statements are accurate. Most publishers are not trying to lie/cheat/steal or any other kind of chicanery. In most cases small publishers are people doing a LOT of jobs, and numbers and bookkeeping isn't one of the jobs they trained for.
We find a lot of errors on royalty statements but we rarely need to audit. Most of the time, you can find the mistakes yourself because they're things like a royalty rate is wrong, a credit wasn't properly recorded, or the reserve for returns is too high.
Also, make sure you're getting royalties on the retail price and not net. Someone I know knows someone who recently discovered their nice indie press is paying them on net because they didn't know how to read their contract.
If you are in Canada, you can join the writer's union and they'll look over your contract as part of your membership. Not sure about what's available in the US.
A lot of presses pay on the net (sadly.) If that's their policy make sure net is defined clearly.
Oh, yes. I guess I should've said is make sure you know what you're getting. I don't really know much about net and all that. See...don't take advice from the general public! Haha. Thank goodness you've got Janet.
As always, great to know. Thanks, Janet.
What about contests that promise a publishing contract to winner? Even if the publisher is ethical, this approach seems fraught with problems.
What am I missing? How is this a better plan than simply querying agents?
It's important in contracts to make it clear when your rights revert back to you.
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DEMO Panelists: Mobile Apps Need A Revolution
The barriers to mobile phone application adoption are pretty clear: too much digital rights management (DRM) red tape, too little Web connectivity, and too few people who really know what their mobile devices can do, they said.
The panel began with a DRM discussion in which panelist Tom Jacobs, director of research for Sun Microsystems Laboratories posited that DRM too often gets a bad rap.
"DRM is certainly a party killer and it is one of the least understood areas," Jacobs said. "When you start talking about Hollywood content, there is a real concern about their ability to monetize that content that they have. There is a lot of research going on but the focus has been: 'How do you make it a worthwhile technology from the consumers' perspective and also meet the needs of the enterprise and content owners' perspective?'"
Consumers want to pay once and only once for media, whether it be music, movies, or photos, panelists said. Once they pay for that content, they want to access it with an iPod, a Zune, a desktop, a TV set, or a boom box. But Hollywood is afraid that "owning" is analogous to sharing.
"People think that DRM is about locking it all up," Jacobs said. "I like to say that we're in the first generation of rights management and things have been poorly rolled out. We need to go towards where everything goes back into the Web. Where you manage your photos and your videos should be a network service that is interoperable."
Juergen Urbanski, general manager for Wi-Fi sharing firm FON, said that people want the same portability with their rights to broadband. His company sells a small router that allows users to connect to the broadband connection in their house while they are on the go.
"FON is now the largest community of Wi-Fi users worldwide," Urbanski said. "The simple idea is if you already pay for broadband access at home, why would you have to pay for broadband access on the go?"
With the FON router, users can connect to your home broadband connection from any hot spot.
The general hope of the wireless panel was that applications would simplify the mobile phone space so that users of any generation will "get" things like text messaging and online gaming.
"Maybe your mom doesn't get text messaging but she would get it from a Web site," said Toufic Mobarak, president and chief technology officer for MobileSphere, the company that makes the Web application that sends SMS messages to any phone anywhere. "It's about making it easier for people to understand."


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How should we help people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders to deal with social situations that can seem mysterious and can cause anxiety?


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Cricket Hospitality Packages in 2017
2017 Cricket Hospitality and VIP Packages
Trent Bridge, Headingly, Edgbaston, Cardiff, Ageas Bowl, Durham, Old Trafford and Bristol
We also have a range of official hospitality packages to all the other venues hosting International cricket during the Summer of 2017. These can vary from private boxes, shared restaurant packages or marquee packages.
A typical cricket hospitality package includes:
- Well known cricketing speakers
- Official top category match ticket or seat in a private box
- Tea, coffee and breakfast on arrival
- Three course lunch with wine followed by tea and coffee
- Complimentary bar throughout the day
- Match programme
- Afternoon tea
- Plasma televisions in the facility keeping you up to date with play
- Event management
The day typically starts at 9am with play starting at 11am. The hospitality finishes at approximately 7pm. Please see the venues below that are hosting international games coupled with the international matches they are hosting.
Trent Bridge – Nottingham
One of the world's oldest grounds steeped in history with the first game played there in 1838 and the first test match in 1899, when England hosted Australia. It has recently had a new stand which has pushed it's capacity to 17,500.
England v South Africa – 14th-18th July – Investec Test Match
England v West Indies – 21st September – One Day International
Edgbaston – Birmingham
Following the recent completion of a £30 million upgrade this has become one of the most modern international cricket venues in the world with new cricket hospitality suites and a capacity of 25,000.
England v West Indies – 17th-20th August – Investec Test match
See our VIP Great Briton train package from London-Birmingham.
Headingley – Leeds
This is one of the oldest cricket grounds in the world and has been home to Yorkshire since 1891. The new £21 million Carnegie pavilion has some modern boxes and hospitality facilities to suit all needs.
England v South Africa – 24th May – One Day International
England v West Indies – 25th-29th August – Investec Test match
Swalec Stadium – Cardiff
This stadium offers a wide range of hospitality facilities for both these games. We have a range of private boxes and shared hospitality suites available.
England v South Africa – 25th June – T20 International
The Ageas Bowl – Southampton
This is a new state of the art ground designed by leading and award winning architect Sir Michael Hopkins. This is one of the smaller venues and has a cracking atmosphere. It was recently voted the best cricket venue in a survey of cricket fans by the ECB.
England v South Africa – 27th May – One Day International
England v South Africa – 21st June – T20 International
England v West Indies – 29th September – One Day International
Chester- le-Street – Durham
One of the more recent grounds to have been awarded test status this probably hosted the best match in the recent Ashes series. A small and compact stadium creates a carnival atmosphere and we have some private boxes and other hospitality options available for you and your guests.
England v Sri Lanka – 27-31st May – Test match
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England v South Africa – 4th-8th August – Investec Test match
England v West Indies – 19th September – One Day International
Nevil Road – Bristol
One of the smallest international venues but now undergoing work to double its capacity. It hosts its first test match in 2021.
England v West Indies – 24th September – One Day International
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Residence permit
If you stay in France for more than one year, you will have to complete an application form to obtain a residence permit three months before the expiration of your long stay visa.
The faculty where you are enrolled in Blaise Pascal University will give you this form with a list of the documents required. All the required documents when ready can be returned to your faculty.
After your documents have been examined by the Prefecture, you will then obtain a receipt by mail for temporary residence until the permit itself is ready.
As soon as the residence permit is available you will be informed directly by the Prefecture.
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