Getting a book re-written

Warriors for hire would be a good place to start.

I agree with keeping things inside the warrior community. That way you can read the feedback others have left and make a decision based on that. Otherwise, you might be able to check out odesk.com or freelancer.com and see if anyone on there can get it done. I do caution you though that a majority of the freelancers on both sites are not native English speakers.

You also might try you luck at posting the job on a college campus. Students need money, and what better place to find a writer than a desperate college student that is in their prime for writing?

Cheers, love the last idea.

I'm going to try and find a 'writers forum' perhaps..

At the moment I'm getting offers but then just thinking 'why not write it myself'... attempted that this morning and I've managed 340 words in about an hour..

What I need is someone to look at the book I'm basing mine on and create a structured table of contents for me to work around.....

I guess some people are just blessed with this writing ability... I'm not!

I'd just contact writers or ones that rewrite especially and see if they can do it for you. Just a fair warning, it might cost you more than getting a new one written but it depends on the length of the book itself.

Hi Joe,

as it was said above me, if I were you, I wouldn't just re-write a book without adding anything new. In fact, I wouldn't re-write a book at all, if I were to write a new book (and I have written a few already), I would make sure it included my own ideas and thoughts.

What you can do, of course, is do your research on the topic you are going to write about, obtain all the information that's to be read on the Internet and compile it into one single piece of work.

Now to your question; you can hire quality re-writers from the Philippines, they are usually hard workers and pretty cheap. You can even "employ" them, meaning they would work for you on a long-term basis. I pay some of my writers $200 per month and they work for me 6 days a week.

The website to find such writers is onlinejobs.ph. But make sure that you contact at least 5 people and test them out before you employ them. Give them a sample of text to re-write and see how fast and how well they do their work.

Also make sure to be with them in contact via Skype. Email communication is not the fastest!

Hope this helps, Merry Christmas!

PLR EBOOKS (Private label rights) are good in the sense that you can turn them to your own copy and have rights to it. There are so many websites offering such services as a site or a membership site, where you will pay a monthly price and have access to as many eBooks as possible.

So I can't rewrite a book on divorce? :lol:

Amazon.com and Kindle would be bankrupt if everyone went with what you're saying.

I've had a few decent offers via PM so all is not wasted. Thanks for the sensible replies. And for the record I'm pretty certain it's okay to rewrite articles/content etc... if it was a 'story' then perhaps that's crossing the line - this is non-fiction and facts....!

This is business my friend - I wouldn't spend my money and time on a product if there was a chance of being sued.

I stand in awe of your knowledge of the law

Happy Christmas

*shakes head...

I read somewhere else that idea cannot be protected by copyright, only the way the idea is expressed can be protected. Can anyone confirm this? If this is true, then rewrite a book is legal, OMG!!!

I love threads like this.

There are some people I am so suspicious of that if they told me Monday came after Sunday I would need to check a calender to make sure it hadn't been changed.

When I see a thread like this I get a new list of usernames to add to my "check the calender" list.

I know never to do business with them, or take the time to answer their cries for "help"

Hello Joe:

I think that you may need to be careful about how you go about this.

Perhaps it is as you say with respect to others on Amazon.

Does that mean that it should be done, just because you CAN do it?

What will you say when or if it is done to you?

CT

Joe:

Once you have your book rewritten, can you please leave a link to it here so I can rewrite your book and sell it?

You should get some PLR stuff that allows you to rewrite it and and rewrite that.

That's the problem - it needs to be a 100+ pages.

It's currently being done buy a guy on oDesk - at a cost of $1500, totally rewritten

$1500...? Wow, that's a steal. I have rewritten books, so I know what goes into that kind of work.

Here's my experience:

I've rewritten textbooks for MIT professors. The books were updates of their own textbooks, but -- as is typical with many publishing houses -- the publishers held the copyrights on the previous editions for X number of years.

To avoid jeopardizing the copyright of either the professor or the publisher, we had to be very sure we weren't creating anything that was a "derivative" work. After all, it's not just an issue for the publishers, who had their own very deep legal pockets, but the long-term copyright protection of the original author, in this case: the professor.

In the United States, the Copyright Act defines "derivative work" in 17 U.S.C.§ 101:
A "derivative work" is a work based upon one or more pre-existing works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted. A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is a "derivative work". (emphasis added)

Our team included the professor, three lawyers, plus me (the rewriter) to work through the rewrite, so the finished work wasn't in any way derivative. That usually meant about three or four months' work, with meetings multiple times a week.

Just the lawyers' fees were in excess of $4500, and that was for a very brief textbook.

So, if you're getting that much work done for $1500, that's impressive.

On the other hand, I don't understand why you'd pay that much for a work that risks being derivative, when you could get a book written from scratch for about 1/3 that.

Chacun à son goût. :rolleyes:

Hi

hiring the worrier would be a good place to start......

I'll put it through CopyScape and go through competitors products to check it's all OK.

Got some great PM's regarding this so thanks everyone

Wouldn't you want to at least outline the TOC to fit a solution that you can call "yours?"

I have outsourced many projects in the past, but I always do the outlining myself...that is what makes my products unique and what allows me to roll them into additional products like spin-off coaching, seminars, courses, etc...

I wouldn't be so eager to trust outlining of my product to someone else. Research, content creation - maybe if I find the right person, but outlining - nope.

Jeff