I am currently thinking of writing a plan for the book in museum studies. I am looking for AUTHOURS OF BOOK(S) in the list who could help me by providing answers for a number of questions: 1) Please provide name(s) of the book(s), publisher(s) and date(s) 2) Who has fixed the price of the book? the publisher or you? Did you have a say in the price? If not why not? 3) How did you reach a "gross margin"? What does the "gross margin" mean any way? 4) How did you decide the subject matter, format, length, and the schedule? Have these decisions changed during the formal agreement with the commisioning editor? 5) How much and how you were paid? Have you any suggestions for the first-time authors? 6) What were the decsions reached regarding the copyrights and your loyalties? Were there any options given from which you can choose? what are they? 7) Have you discussed about the "advance", "return on foreign sales" and eventualities as TV or news paper serialisation? What is exactly "advace" or "return on foreign sales"? 8) How many complementary copies have you received? 9) Have you got any "translations", television" and "anthology rights"? 10) Who in your case, have secured reproduction rights for illustrations if any? Were you asked to bear the cost of that by yourself? 11) How long did you take to submit the final manuscript since the formation of idea, the submission of proposal, and the formal agreement respectively? What are the factors you think important in deciding the schedule? 12) What are the editorial strategy the publisher adapted in your case? What is your experience? 13) Who did the proof corrections? Have you needed to do any major modifications and subsequently face any problems? Please give your tips for the new authors. 14) Any other suggestions or comments or any questions you would like to ask me. Thank you very much for everyone who would be willing to help me. I would assure maintain integrity, anonymity and confidentiality on information that will be directly sent to me. However it is upto the authors to choose the modes: the direct mode or the list mode. Thanks again and sorry for many questions. Ibrahim Yahya [log in to unmask]