How We Promote Your Book at De Gruyter
Ensuring your book is visible and discoverable is vital to its success. Learn how we combine the best of traditional and modern practices to promote your book.
After Publication
We regard our authors as partners for many years after the publication of a book. We will keep you up-to-date and informed about all the important developments related to your book.
Marketing and discoverability
We use a wide range of communication to promote our authors’ publications, from social media, newsletters and email campaigns to targeted marketing activities through our retail partners. We are experts in the fields of abstracting and indexing services.
In addition, our website offers your book a platform for both marketing and sales.
abstracting and indexing
There are currently approximately 200 organizations with some 500 databases providing abstracting and indexing. De Gruyter works closely with all these services, and we are expanding our cooperation with new providers.
FREE COPIES AND THESIS COPIES
You will receive free copies of your work for your own personal use. Your editor will discuss the details with you as part of your contract.
We are also happy to provide you with specimen copies containing additional bound pages for your university library upon request.
INSPECTION COPIES
Instructors can use this form to easily and conveniently order an inspection copy of a textbook.
REVIEW AND PUBLIC RELATIONS
We make your work available to all relevant academic journals and media for reviewing. We also save published reviews to a digital archive, and share a selection of these reviews online at your book’s web page. We send you custom e-mails so you can access the reviews published about your book.
SOCIAL MEDIA
New releases and highlights are regularly communicated to more than 32,000 fans and followers via De Gruyter social media. Our De Gruyter Conversations blog offers exciting contributions on topics we publish, send your idea to conversations@degruyter.com.
INTERNATIONAL SALES
Our international sales team will represent your work across over the globe, ensuring it finds the right readers in your subject area.
PRINT ON DEMAND
If the stock level of your title falls below a set minimum amount in our warehouse, our print on demand service is activated. This keeps the print edition of your book available for international delivery on an ongoing basis.
PUBLISHER PARTNERSHIPS
De Gruyter maintains strategic distribution partnerships with internationally renowned publishers including Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press, and Penn Press. These help to expand our portfolio, as well as further increase its appeal with additional high-quality content.
RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS
Our Rights and Permissions Department offers all titles that would be suitable for other international publishers in licensed/translated editions. This way, we can ensure that your intellectual property rights are protected in the event of reprints or translations. When requests for permissions come in, we will take care of the communication and licensing process on your behalf, and share the additional revenue with you.
ADDING YOUR WORK TO A UNIVERSITY REPOSITORY
To add work to your university repository, please read our guidelines.
ROYALTIES
Your editor will let you know whether and how much is due to be paid for your work in royalties. If royalties are assigned to you in your contract, we will provide you with a yearly statement of sales.
VG WORT
Authors who are EU citizens or legal residents can register with Germany-based collecting society VG Wort, enabling them to receive a share of the proceeds that VG Wort collects and manages. According to currently applicable case law, all VG Wort authors (including non-EU citizens) are permitted to give VG Wort consent for publishers to continue to receive a share of the payout. That is the reason we write to you once a year asking for active consent.
Currently, we do not participate in the Metis payment system, though you can still benefit from this by registering for it separately. For further details, visit www.vgwort.de.
ORDERS AND CUSTOMER SERVICE
You always have the option to order additional copies of your book at your discounted rate. Please do not hesitate to contact our Customer Service Team if you have any questions.
More useful information for authors
Author Name Change Policy
close At De Gruyter, we know that there is a lot in a name. We recognize that people change their names for a number of reasons, including changes in gender identity, religion, or marital status, and believe they should be able to do so easily and discreetly.
What you need to do:
If you have published with De Gruyter and would like to change your name on existing publications, here’s what you need to know.
Please submit a name change request to namechangepolicy@degruyter.com providing:
- Your previous name
- Your current name
- Your previous e-mail address if it has changed
- The DOI(s) of the publication(s) to be updated
You do not need to provide official proof of your name change.
You may inform any co-authors or (co-)editors if you wish to do so. To protect your privacy, De Gruyter will not notify anyone else of your name change.
Creating an ORCID I.D is a good way to make sure you are identified as the author of all your work regardless of the name under which you published it.
What we will (and will not) do:
- We replace the original version of your publication with the updated version. Please be aware it may take a few weeks for the change to be effected. The DOI of your publication will stay the same.
- The updated publication will not include any notice of change, anonymized or otherwise.
- We notify our indexing partners of the change to ensure discoverability under your new name. We cannot guarantee if and when the indexing information will be updated.
- For technical and legal purposes, we store a version of your work bearing your previous name in our data warehouse. This version will not be made publicly available and will only be accessible to authorized De Gruyter staff.
Want to find out more about how our name change policy was created or help us improve our policy? Please send your feedback to namechangepolicy@degruyter.com
