Inside Independent Publishing (with Ibpa)

Mike Mansel is a Certified Insurance Counselor, and here he shares his decades of experience working with publishers large and small on sorting out their insurance needs. Highlights of this podcast include: types of liability insurance the role of Intellectual Property attorneys in defending claims do insurance companies just settle or do they go to bat for their customers? why to avoid jury trials do all publishers need insurance? what does publishers liability insurance cost, and do costs depend on the kinds of books you publish? is having general business liability insurance enough? “claims made” vs “occurrence” based policies: know the difference! is it an advantage to be an LLC vs a C-corp vs a sole proprietorship? what is the leading source of claims against publishers? what’s a “hammer” clause and why is it important that you know? Here’s a link to the BookBaby Blog article by Scott McCormick, on using song lyrics in your book: http://blog.bookbaby.com/2018/11/lyrics-in-books-your-questions-answered/