Registry Signs Another

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The Authors Registry, Inc.
330 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
tel 212-563-6920
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registry[_at_]interport.net
http://www.webcom.com/registry

May 29, 1997

                AUTHORS REGISTRY GROWS SOME MORE
                AS WEIGHT WATCHERS MAGAZINE SIGNS

   Weight Watchers, the million-circulation lifestyle magazine for the weight conscious, has contracted with the Authors Registry to handle payments to freelance writers for reuses of their work.

   The magazine, recently purchased and revamped by Southern Progress Corp., a division of Time, Inc., has begun offering outside contributors a new contract that specifies fees for anthologies and other extra uses of articles after publication. Reuse payments are to be made through the Registry, the licensing and payment clearinghouse for authors.

   "Weight Watchers is 80 percent freelance-written," says Kate Greer, who has overseen the remake of the 30-year-old magazine since her appointment as editor last summer. "I regard good freelance writers as an absolute treasure. Our agreement to pay through the Authors Registry when we reuse their work is one way of showing that."

   Other publications that have arranged deals with the Registry include Cooking Light, Food & Wine, Harper's, The Nation, Publishers Weekly, Travel & Leisure and Yankee.

   The not-for-profit Authors Registry was established to smooth the way for magazine and newspaper publishers to compensate contributors for electronic, photocopy and other reuses of their work. It counts unprecedented support from more than 100 literary agencies and nearly every important writers' organization in the United States--more than 30 groups--whose clients and members are automatically eligible for enrollment without charge. Unaffiliated freelancers may sign on as individuals for $10.

   Following are the cooperating organizations of the Authors Registry:

American Book Producers Association - American Society of Journalists and Authors - Association of Authors' Representatives - Association of Independents in Radio - Authors Guild - Boston Literary Agents Society - Canadian Science Writers Association - Colorado Authors League - Council of Writers Organizations - District of Columbia Science Writers Association - Dramatists Guild - Editorial Freelancers Association - Florida Freelance Writers Association - Garden Writers Association of America - Independent Writers of Southern California - International Association of Culinary Professionals - Mystery Writers of America - National Association of Science Writers - National Book Critics Circle - National Union of Journalists (UK) - National Writers Association - National Writers Union - Novelists, Inc. - Outdoor Writers Association of America - PEN American Center - Periodical Writers Association of Canada - Romance Writers of America - Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America - Society of American Travel Writers - Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators - Society of Midland Authors - Symposium for Professional Food Writers - Text and Academic Authors Association - Travel Journalists Guild - Washington Independent Writers

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