Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 473.
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    [1]    From: Jim Rovira 
           Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.470: a question of contract (8)

    [2]    From: Claire Clivaz 
           Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.470: a question of contract (54)


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        Date: 2019-12-08 21:09:56+00:00
        From: Jim Rovira 
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.470: a question of contract

I think she should contact publisher X with apologies, backing out of her
previous proposal, and then feel free to go to any publisher with a new
proposal. If it's really been years, I suspect X has given up on her
anyhow. She might as a courtesy float a new proposal to X, and I'm unsure
why she's considering Y when she already has a proposal approved with X.

Jim R


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        Date: 2019-12-08 08:05:41+00:00
        From: Claire Clivaz 
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.470: a question of contract

Dear Willard,

Such question can probably have only a juridical answer, I guess. In my
opinion, a good practice is to sign the contract only when the
manuscript has been accepted in peer-review, as certain wise publishers do.

Kind greetings,

Claire Clivaz

On 08.12.19 08:57, Humanist wrote:
>                    Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 470.
>              Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
>                     Hosted by King's Digital Lab
>                         www.dhhumanist.org
>                  Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org
>
>
>
>
>          Date: 2019-12-07 14:53:00+00:00
>          From: Willard McCarty 
>          Subject: contractural obligation?
>
> Someone not on Humanist posed the following question to me. Answers
> would be most gratefully appreciated.
>
> Suppose a digital humanist signed a contract with publisher X for a book
> she proposed in some detail, as is normally the case. Years then went
> by, the author's mind chaged numerous times, during which period the
> imagined book no longer seemed the one to write. Rather concrete ideas
> for an essentially new book then emerged, some cross-over with the
> former one, but only some. Is this author contracturally obligated to
> stick with publisher X, or is she free to go to publisher Y with the new
> proposal?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Yours,
> WM
> --
> Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/),
> Professor emeritus, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College
> London; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
> (www.tandfonline.com/loi/yisr20) and Humanist (www.dhhumanist.org)

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