Writers are among the world's worst business people. Not only do they often not know what they are entitled to, they don't even know how to get what they think they are entitled to.Writing as a Business is an indispensable guide for all Australian authors who need to know more about the business aspects of writing. Drawing on more than forty years' experience as an author, publisher, film and television producer and bookseller, Ken Methold gives sound, pithy and up-to-the-minute advice on a range of issues, includingIntellectual propertyContractsBudgetsTaxation, accountancy and legal mattersLiterary agentsSelf-publishingMarketingFilm and televisionDigital publishing and the Internet