Get Blackwell Publishing Exclusive Licence Form 2015-2024

You do need a business license to self publish your book. But it's easy! Because you become a publisher in order to self publish. And to become a publisher, you choose a business name and then register it by getting a business license through your state or county.

Exclusive License to Publish: An exclusive license to publish is a written agreement in which the copyright owner gives the publisher exclusivity over certain inherent rights associated with the copyright in the work.

A publishing company always owns the print license (which includes digital), while the author always owns the copyright. All other rights (movie, excerpt, etc.) are negotiable. This means the publishing company has final say over all aspects of that book.

Publishing rights are not the same as copyright. The copyright belongs to the original creator of the book, which is determined by a contract between the publisher and the author. The publishing rights are given to others by the copyright owner, allowing them to reproduce the work.

No. You cannot earn money by publishing a research paper. On the contrary, you need to spend money to get your research published in open access journals where the readers can download your papers free of cost. So directly there are no means to earn from an article published.