Reprint

Reprints Reprints or apply as a separate editions of a work in the same physical form and, if it is unchanged or only slightly modified editions, loaded with the original edition. As an unchanged re also expenditure, where only individual volumes / years of the original have been reprinted unchanged or expenses that were only a minor part (eg advertising pages) are shortened. Also unchanged is considered as a reprint, which was expanded by the preface, dedication, introduction and / or a subsequently compiled register. Also an issue that has been extended by only one additionally appearing commentary (eg Reprintzählung Vol 1-5; Volumes 1-4 contain the unchanged reprint, Vol 5 is a newly written commentary), is considered unaltered reprint. As modified Reprints other hand, expenditure eligible compile the original texts to the new or previously unpublished original texts are expanded.

Aims output from it to come as close as possible to the physical properties of a particular instance, one speaks of a facsimile.

Reprints and piracy

A reprint is unchanged in the text edition of a publication, the edition that can learn within a publishing a text, to be distinguished from the usually contractually fixed adoption and publication of the text by another company and from pirate edition, the pirated editions, is.

The boundaries between reproduction and piracy were in the early pressure being who worked without copyright, in agreement that existed between firms on the takeover. Entire requirements could switch companies, such as when a competitor could promise to sell the remaining copies of far better at his own audience. The title transferee Publisher sat in such cases usually leaves on the new title still unbound and printed goods, if the title successfully ran at him, entitled the subsequent editions.

The emphasis is happening today under complex legal conditions far regular: Frequently rights remain within a corporate group, reprinted as the title, which ran under one label of the house in hardcover in a paperback publishing house of the same company. One is to achieve transparency about the investments and amortization, approximately capture the secondary marketing within the same group as the acquisition of the title, as otherwise geschähe between separate and independent companies.

For reprints by foreign companies license arrangements are made. A title can be made available in about book clubs reprinted specific audiences, it can be given to a foreign Taschenbuchverlag for secondary marketing and it can be completely sold to a different publisher. The license agreements are denominated in generally a percentage of the sale reprinted copies.

History

Emphasis was until the late 18th century, a term for illegal reprint of a successful book. Another name is pirated or black copy.

The reprinting tried to details in the successful book - copy - eg nachgestochene pictures. However, cases are known in which the reprinters renounced the impression of expensive pictures of the original and so was able to offer the product cheaper. The often large sums of money investing publisher of the original was to attempt by magisterial protection privileges - to protect against the emphasis - eg Imperial printing privileges. This was only partially successful due to the territorial fragmentation of Germany, especially since it could also happen that reprints were encouraged by the authorities. This is for example the emphasis of Economics Encyclopedia of JG Krünitz by Johann Georg Trassler in Brno at the end of the 18th century.

Since the 20th century, the terms reprint reprint and are no longer distinguished, so that the term emphasis today has no more regard to the legality or illegality of pressure. see, for example, the two parallel- published series " reprints German literature " and " reprints German literature."