Thread: Publishers brace for authors to reclaim book rights in 2013
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Old 11-29-2012, 11:49 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but if this law has been in force since 1978, what's special about 2013? Why couldn't authors have done this at any time since 1978?
1978 + 35 = 2013

They probably could, but it would have meant that they find a paper publisher. Now there's ebooks for the backlist and Amazon publishing.
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