Thread: MacMillan Asks Authors for Backlist eBook Rights
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Old 08-20-2010, 06:54 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by abookreader View Post
In what is probably a direct response to the Wiley Agent as Publisher news, Macmillan sent out an email over the weekend asking authors to amend their contracts to include ePub rights on backlist titles.

The big issue here doesn't seem to be that MacMillan has made a play to tie up the ePub backlist rights of several authors. The issue appears to be that they contacted the authors directly, circumventing the Agents and Attorneys of several. Hopefully not many authors will go for it without first consulting somebody knowledgeable.

http://www.teleread.com/2010/08/18/m...e-book-rights/

Did they ask for a pony, too?

They'd be about the last publisher you'd want to do that with, seeing they don't bloody well actually publish any.
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