We Elevate Exceptional Books
to the World Stage.
Dropcap Rights Agency
Our agency represents compelling, carefully curated, and exclusive titles.
How Representation
With Dropcap Rights
Agency Works
We Select High Quality, Licensable Books From DropCap Marketplace.
Then, Our Agenting Team Negotiates Rights Contracts With Our Global Partners Around The World.
Finally, Authors And Publishers Receive Advances And Royalties From
Our Network of Rights Buyers Spans the Globe
We pride ourselves on our personal relationships with international publishers and co-agents, and meet with them regularly at major international book fairs including Frankfurt, London, and Bologna.
While we believe that technology can enhance the rights-buying process, we know that software alone can never take the place of real, long-term relationships with buyers and face-to-face sales meetings.
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Here’s a Few of the Countries Our Rights Buyers Are From That We Represent:
We are always on the lookout for exceptional English language books to represent in the global marketplace.
Publishers We Represent
We are proud to work with some of the most innovative and influential publishers in the business. Typically, our clients are small and medium-sized publishers that don’t handle foreign rights internally.
The process of who to pitch, who to trust, what contract terms should be included, and how to track and collect royalties can be confusing. Publishers work with us because we take all that off their plates.
If you are a publisher and would like to have DropCap represent you go here If you would like to discuss purchasing rights for a specific title go hereWhat Our Customers Are Saying
“As a book publisher, we love working with partners who can help us provide better services and sales for our authors. DropCap does just that with superb foreign rights and audio representation for our work. After several successful foreign rights deals they have secured on our behalf, I highly recommend them to other publishers—if you should be so lucky to be taken on board their agency.”
- John Köehler - Köehler Books
Authors We Represent
From the day we started DropCap Rights Agency, we knew we wanted to offer a rights program for self-published authors who didn’t have access to foreign rights licensing through a publishing house or literary agent.
That’s why we created DropCap Marketplace, a rights program made exclusively for independent authors and the unique challenges they face in the international licensing market. Our innovative rights discovery platform helps our global buyers find books in specific genres and niche topics—and they are always searching for more amazing books to discover. Could yours be next?
If You’re an Indie Author Witha Great Book Go Here
What Our Customers Are Saying
“DropCap has really taken our publishing company to the next level. Not only do they fill a gaping hole in the indie author marketplace, but they’re so friendly, organized, and perceptive.”
Considering they have no actual competition for their innovative international rights service, DropCap could opt to be over-priced divas, but just the opposite is the case. We have gotten so much bang for our book bucks!
Lily Cole
CEO & Founder Beaver’s Pond Press“We’ve now done hundreds of thousands of dollars in rights and I’ve found them to be a fantastic partner in every way.”
“My recommendation is that you work with them as they will make your books more discoverable, the number one challenge we all have.”
Christopher Robbins
CEO & FOUNDER OF FAMILIUS PUBLISHING“As a book publisher, we love working with partners who can help us provide better services and sales for our authors.”
“DropCap does just that with superb international rights and audio representation for our work. After several successful deals they have secured on our behalf, I highly recommend them to other publishers—if you should be so lucky to be taken on board their agency.”
John Köehler
CEO KOEHLER BOOKS“As a newly self-published author, I had absolutely no idea who to trust or where to start to get my book published internationally.”
“They demystified the world of foreign rights and made the process unbelievably simple for me as an author.”
Joseph Nguyen
DROPCAP AUTHOR WITH 27 LANGUAGES SOLDBelow is a chart showing typical advances and royalties for the languages in which we most often negotiate foreign rights agreements. Advances are paid up front and against future royalties.
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Arabic
Advance: $665 | Royalty: 6-7% -
Indonesian
Advance: $725 | Royalty: 6-7% -
Bulgarian
Advance: $740 | Royalty: 6-7% -
Chinese Complex
Advance: $2000 | Royalty: 6-7% -
Chinese Simplified
Advance: $2500 | Royalty: 6-7% -
Croatian
Advance: $600 | Royalty: 6-7% -
Thai
Advance: $830 | Royalty: 6-7%
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Danish
Advance: $1100 | Royalty: 8-9% -
Dutch
Advance: $1175 | Royalty: 8-9% -
English
Advance: $2450 | Royalty: 6-7% -
English Audio
Advance: $4000 | Royalty: 6-7% -
English Book Club
Advance: $1500 | Royalty: 10% -
Estonian
Advance: $560 | Royalty: 6-7% -
Vietnamese
Advance: $640 | Royalty: 6-7%
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German
Advance: $4400 | Royalty: 8-9% -
Hungarian
Advance: $1000 | Royalty: 6-7% -
Icelandic
Advance: $500 | Royalty: 6-7% -
Italian
Advance: $2275 | Royalty: 8-9% -
Japanese
Advance: $3700 | Royalty: 8-10% -
Korean
Advance: $2575 | Royalty: 8-10% -
Turkish
Advance: $660 | Royalty: 6-7%
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Farsi
Advance: $300 | Royalty: 6-7% -
Polish
Advance: $1200 | Royalty: 8-10% -
Portuguese
Advance: $2080 | Royalty: 8-10% -
Romanian
Advance: $1250 | Royalty: 6-7% -
Russian
Advance: $1550 | Royalty: 8-10% -
Serbian
Advance: $680 | Royalty: 6-7% -
Spanish
Advance: $2135 | Royalty: 8-10%
Frequently Asked Questions
DropCap has partnerships with traditional publishers, indie presses, and successful self-published authors to help us discover titles for our ever-growing database. Check with your publisher to see if they work with DropCap, and if they don’t, have them contact us.
We also created DropCap Marketplace as a way to scout great titles to represent.
No—an Agent Evaluation is an advisory service, not a guarantee of licensing or representation. The purpose is to give you professional feedback so you can understand how your book may be viewed in international markets and decide if purchasing a subscription to DropCap Marketplace is the right next step for you.
Through our outstanding agenting team, with a combined 30+ years experience in foreign book rights. Additionally, we showcase our titles in several ways, including hand-pitching titles to our international partners and attending international book fairs.
Yes! DropCap is a unique literary agency specializing exclusively in foreign rights contracts with global book buyers.
These contracts can be on top of or in conjunction with any contracts you already have in place with your publisher.
We do! We work with traditional publishers, indie publishers, and self-published authors alike.
If you are a self-published author with a great book you would like to pursue foreign rights for, check out DropCap Marketplace.
Probably not.
Foreign rights, also known as translation rights are a whole different sector of the publishing world, and many small to mid-sized publishers don’t have agents that are experienced in the global market.
That’s what makes DropCap so special.
Anyone who’s worked in publishing or written a book knows how complicated the industry can be.
Everything from production to distribution to marketing requires a wealth of knowledge, and that is just here in the US.
Foreign rights include understanding the global book market, the needs of each region, and the cultural know-how to reach a mutually beneficial contract agreement.
That’s what we specialize in at DropCap, and why we are leading rights literary agency in the world.
We could never promise an author or a publisher that their book will be picked up by our worldwide partners.
What we can promise is that with the team at DropCap you’ll have the best in the business actively marketing, pitching, and showcasing your titles, curating them very specifically to the buyers we know will be the most interested in licensing and publishing your work in their region.
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