The phrase "author copies" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to publishing, where it refers to copies of a work provided to the author, often for review or distribution.
Example: "The publisher sent out the author copies of the book a month before its official release."
Alternatives: "author proofs" or "author editions".
And when you open the big box of author copies and there it is – your book… Your shiny, genuine book, in person and in your hands… Dance while you can, I'd say.
That amount does not include the value of author copies and free subscriptions.
Publisher Discounts: Before you sign with a publisher, be sure to ask them how much author copies will cost you.
As a business idea, it was terrible, of course: I'd just donated one of my author copies (about $5 worth of inventory) and given Barnes & Noble $12.
If researchers feel it necessary to publish in certain subscription journals, there is always the option to use the green open access model and self-archive an author copy in an open repository.
The QsarDB repository requires every Item to contain exactly one QDB archive, which may be accompanied by appropriate reference materials (e.g., author copy of the original publication, QMRF document(s), other normative and regulative documents, etc).. Every Item is owned by one parent Collection, but it is possible for an Item to be shared between multiple Collections.
They didn't send you authors' copies in those days.
It is fundamentally a work in ontology, in Ingarden's sense (see §2 above), laying out the essential features anything must have to be counted as a literary work, what parts it must have and how they are interrelated, and how such entities as literary works relate to other sorts of entities such as authors, copies of texts, readers, and ideal meanings.
They also obtained and forwarded to the authors copies of all available reports that potentially met the study inclusion criteria.
This perhaps explains the myriad US authors copying his style.
Benedict's contemporary Cassiodorus (c. 490 c. 585) had the works of classical authors copied (e.g., Cicero and Quintilian) as well as Bibles and the works of the early Church Fathers.
