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Subject:Re: What does $3 a page mean to you? From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:30:05 -0400
Lyn Worthen wrote:
>> So even an agreement doesn't protect you. You have to
>> be careful when you think the publisher is just restating
>> already agreed terms that it may in fact be changing the
>> terms of your agreement as was the case here. Very sneaky.
>
> Looking at it from the publisher's side (just for
> kicks), your description of the original agreement didn't
> specifically state that a "page" meant a particular paper
> size or a set number of words. From the publisher's point
> of view, *they* were "just restating the already agreed
> terms" in the memo, and now, at the end of the project,
> they may feel that *you* are trying to change the terms
> of the agreement - after all, they've known all along what
> they meant by "a page."
>
If that were the case, why'd they put the distinction into the memo.
The word's absence from the memo would make me more likely to believe
your scenario. In other words, they made the distinction -- but when
and where did they make it, and why there and then? Had they said
nothing about book pages and then told me they assumed it was book
pages and that I understood that, I might think that it was my error
in not clarifying it. But to have the distinction made outside of the
context of my agreeing to terms, that's what's sneaky, IMO.
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