Subrights session pre-meeting online respondent data (24 presses) Baltimore 2011 Who handles subrights at your Press?

Director % Responses 25% 6 Rights Manager 71% 17 Other: Associate Director 4% 1 TOTAL 100% 24

How many full-time staff/positions constitute the rights department?

0 = various staff handle enquiries % Responses 13% 3 <1 58% 14 1 full-time 13% 3 2 8% 2 <3 8% 2 TOTAL 100% 24

What subrights do you regularly license? check all that apply

Translations % Responses 96% 22 Film and TV 13% 3 Book clubs 39% 9 Overseas co-pubs (English-speaking) 65% 15 Other* 35% 8

*Other = audio; backlist reprint rights; chapters or essays for databases; course pack; Data Aggregation; digital rights; reprint rights for individual essays/chapters

Do you work with agents? If yes, how many?

1 to 3 % Responses 67% 16

YES NO

71% 29%

3 to 6 8% 2

6 to 15 17% 4

15 to 25 4% 1

25+ 4% 1

TOTAL 100% 24

If yes, under formal agreements OR informally on an ad hoc basis? international agents Under formal agreements Informally on an ad hoc basis Both 33% 42%
25%

Does your press have a database or other solution in place for tracking promotions and/or contacts and discussions with foreign houses? YES 58%
NO 42% YES NO 44% 56%

If yes, is it integrated with your books publishing database?

Would you characterize your press approach to licensing subrights as Passive or Active?
Passive = waiting for the phone to ring and Active = knocking on doors/reaching out to publishers; e.g., sending out catalogues, email blasts, and/or staff overseas

Passive

1 21%

2 38%

3 13%

4 17%

5 13%

Active