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Representation

Books: Derek Johns
Film & TV: Christine Glover

AP Watt Agency Limited
20 John Street
London
WC1N 2DR
Tel: +44 (0)20 7405 6774
Web: www.apwatt.co.uk
Email: apw@apwatt.co.uk

Derek Johns has been with A P Watt as a literary agent and director since 1992. In 1997 he was appointed joint managing director. In a wide-ranging career he has been variously a bookseller, novelist, editor and publisher. He began his publishing career as an editor at Random House in New York. He returned to London in 1986 to take up the position of Publishing Director of Harrap. He went on to be Managing Director of both The Bodley Head and Granta.

As a literary agent he specializes in literary fiction (a category in which his clients have either won or been shortlisted for all the major prizes over the past few years) and general non-fiction, particularly narrative non-fiction in the areas of history, biography and travel.

Publisher (UK)

Little, Brown Book Group
100 Victoria Embankment
LONDON
EC4Y 0DY
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)20 7911 8000
Web: www.littlebrown.co.uk
Email: info@littlebrown.co.uk

Publisher (US)

Scribner
Simon & Schuster Inc.
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020

Tel: 212-698-7000
Dutton (When I Lived in Modern Times)
375 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014

Tel: 212 366 2531

Permissions

For permission to reproduce extracts application should be made to the authors agent, A.P. Watt Literary Agency.

The following is from the A.P. Watt website www.apwatt.co.uk:

We receive many requests to reproduce extracts from works by our clients in works written or edited by other authors. These are generally described as “permissions”. The permission fees which we charge follow the guidelines issued by The Publishers’ Association, The Society of Authors and The Association of Authors’ Agents. Our rates have increased as of 1st January 2009, but this is the first increase in four years. Please note that where a permission fee applies, the minimum amount charged will be £70 (plus VAT if applicable).

You may apply for permission on this website or by post (addressed to the Permissions Department, A P Watt Ltd, 20 John Street, London WC1N 2DR), fax (020 7831 2154) or email (apw@apwatt.co.uk). Regrettably, however, we cannot accept telephone enquiries about permissions. Please note that we get several thousand permission requests a year and although all requests are dealt with as speedily as possible, it is important to apply as far ahead of your deadline as you can.

Permission fees

There are two scales, for major and minor writers. Since nearly all of our authors for whom permission is sought fall into the first category, only those fees are reproduced below.

The current fees for major world English language (WEL) rights are as follows:-

  • Prose: £180 per thousand words

The fees are naturally smaller if the territory sought is less than World English language:

  • World excluding USA: 60% of WEL
  • US + Canada: two-thirds of WEL
  • World excluding USA and Canada: 55% of WEL
  • USA or Europe: 50% of WEL
  • British Commonwealth including Canada: 50% of WEL
  • British Commonwealth excluding Canada: 40% of WEL
  • Major individual country or language other than English: 25% of WEL
  • Australasia or UK: one-third of WEL

The fees are increased by 50% for each additional edition (eg paperback, bookclub, audio cassette) and are reduced by 50% for scholarly works where printings are 1,000 copies or less. The fees for electronic rights (if we grant them) are higher. Photocopying is charged at 10p per page per copy.

Fair dealing

Limited extracts may be used free of charge providing correct attribution and acknowledgement is given if the work in which the extract is to appear is published for the purpose of criticism or review and if the extract falls into the following categories:-

  • prose: a single extract of up to 400 words or series of extracts, none exceeding 300 words, totalling 800 words

How to tell if the work you wish to reproduce is likely to be in copyright

Please note: these notes are rough guidelines only and cannot cover all scenarios, especially about the period for unpublished and posthumous works and for authors who died more than 50 but less than 70 years ago. In all cases, works published posthumously are likely to be in copyright and unpublished works remain in copyright after the author’s death and any references to copyright periods are to be calculated from the end of the year of the author’s death. If you have any doubts, please check with A P Watt to see if permission is required.

a) UK (and most of Europe)

  • Copyright in works published during the author’s lifetime lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years (the end of the year).
  • Unpublished works remain in copyright after the author’s death.
  • Any work published posthumously is likely to be in copyright.
  • Copyright in photographs taken before 1 June 1957 expires 50 years from the end of the year in which it was taken, whether or not it was published.

b) USA

  • Copyright for any work published 1.1.78 or later lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years (the end of the year).
  • Unpublished works remain in copyright after the author’s death.
  • Any work first published before 1.1.23 will be out of copyright.
  • Any work published between 1.1.23 and 31.12.77 is likely to be in copyright.
  • Any work published posthumously is likely to be in copyright.
  • Copyright in photographs is perpetual until published, and then lasts for 50 years from first publication.

c) Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa

  • Copyright in works published during the author’s lifetime lasts for the life of the author plus 50 years (the end of the year).
  • Unpublished works remain in copyright after the author’s death.
  • Any work published posthumously is likely to be in copyright.