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Originally Posted by nekokami
These are all backlist, not new books/authors, but anything that stirs up the backlist ebook market sounds good to me.  There are an awful lot of older SF books that I'd really like to have legit ebook versions of. |
The thing is, ebook rights for most of those older books are actually up for grabs.
Baen has been grabbing some but it is doubtful they can grab even just the good ones. Remember, the ebook rights for any book contracted before ebooks existed reside with the author.
They need to be shopped around again.
And while the emerging 50% royalty will make it attractive to the authors it will make it *less* attractive to the BPHs with the treeware rights. And there is only so much money available to secure rights for both new and existing content.
There's still a lot of havoc to play out before things settle down.