"When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist Ebooks" by Teresa Elsey (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) for ebookcraft 2016, presented by BookNet Canada and eBOUND Canada - March 31, 2016

1. when nothing ever goes out of print
maintaining
backlist ebooks
Teresa Elsey • @teresaelsey
teresa.elsey@hmhco.com
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

2. 300
150
950
titles
frontlist
new backlist
backlist updates

3. image: Uwe Kils, Wiska Bodo CC BY-SA 3.0

8. photo: www.thejoykitchen.com

11. technical
Life Mask (Emma Donoghue)

12. technical
‘That is a great idea,’ he said.
“If you gets nervous lift this
‘ere stick, or ‘oller for me. I’ll
be ‘andy!”
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Long jump record: 29’4”

13. technical
Jerusalem, Jerusalem (James Carroll) Spain in Our Hearts (Adam Hochschild)

14. technical
Bats at the Ballgame (Brian Lies)

15. technical
Bats at the Ballgame (Brian Lies)

16. Do we have the right to create and sell this ebook?
Yes, with author approval and text-to-speech disabled.
legal
Do we have the right to use the cover art in an ebook?
Yes, for 5000 copies.
Do we have the right to use the photos in the insert in an ebook?
Mostly; one needs to be removed and two others only at 72dpi.
Do we have the right to embed those fonts in an ebook?
Yes, for a total of 200 fonts from that foundry across all your ebooks.
Do we have the right to use that quotation from an Emily
Dickinson poem in an ebook?
Yes, for five years, with a special ebook credit line.

17. editorial
“Five minutes latex Leonard appeared underneath my bedroom
window.”
“She did not think of it driving on Sunset Boulevard, which was
always awake, the billboard advertisements for new films bright as
movie screens, the twenty-foot feces of famous people staring
vacantly in her direction.”
“To bum a bam during the time just prior to harvesting, to
endanger the lives of the animals in that bam …”

18. editorial
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)Ordeal by Hunger (George R. Stewart)

19. editorial
Tolkien on a printing of The Fellowship of the Ring:
“the printing is very good, as it ought to be from an
almost faultless copy; except that the impertinent
compositors have taken it upon themselves to correct, as
they suppose, my spelling and grammar: altering
throughout dwarves to dwarfs, elvish to elfish, further to
farther, and worst of all elven to elfin.”
http://www.tolkiensociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/LOTR-The-Tale-of-a-Text.pdf

20. editorial
Ubik (Philip K. Dick)

21. editorial
About Time (Bruce Koscielniak, 2004)

22. editorial
The Fit or Fat Target Diet (Covert Bailey, 1984)

23. editorial
The Witch Family (Eleanor Estes, 1960)

24. Spain in Our Hearts (Adam Hochschild)
editorial

25. editorial

26. The Castle of Crossed Destinies (Italo Calvino)
editorial

27. Beware, Princess Elizabeth (Carolyn Meyer)
editorial

28. Mr. Splitfoot (Samantha Hunt)

29. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
CliffsNotes on Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy
editorial

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34. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.10018/abstract
http://harvardlawreview.org/2014/03/perma-scoping-and-addressing-the-problem-of-
link-and-reference-rot-in-legal-citations/

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39. • develop a process
• take small bites
• improve your tools
• make it easy to update
• keep good notes
• accept that it’s hard
• ask for help

40. when nothing ever goes out of print
maintaining
backlist ebooks
Teresa Elsey • @teresaelsey
teresa.elsey@hmhco.com
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt