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Originally Posted by jasonkchapman
Oh, yes I do. I want them coming back to me or my agent and saying "Please, sir. I want some more."
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Assuming they even know they need to.
Years back, I attended a talk by Dave Hartwell, who is currently a Senior Editor at Tor. At the time, he was consulting for Signet/NAL, working on their SF line. He described taking seven months to dwetermine who Signet had under contract for waht, and five more months dotting Is, crossing Ts, and making sure various rights were renewed. At that, Signet lost some properties because they'd forgotten they had the rights, but the author or agent hadn't, and sent the reversion request quite promptly as soon as rights lapsed.
I haven't seen much indication things have changed.
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Dennis