Ask Our Staff: EAs explain Permissions

In our EA Roundtable video series, our Asian and Latin American Studies Editor Enrique Ochoa-Kaup talks with Editorial Assistants Aline Dolinh and Chad Attenborough, and Naja Pulliam Collins, a former editorial assistant who is now our Environmental Studies and Geography Editor, about what an EA does and their crucial touchpoints with authors.
In Part 3 of the EA Roundtable we discuss the permissions process, what it entails, and why it's vitally important.
EAs work closely with authors to make sure any text, art, model releases, and interviews that are attributed to another person or source have their permission to use that material in their book. This is vitally important in the publishing process, but also post-publication for marketing and promotional purposes.