Thread: Yet another thumb of the nose from publishers
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Old 10-08-2010, 11:03 PM   #89
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post
It would be nice if they had modern accounting departments. Or modern systems, period.

I mentioned upthread the experience of an old friend years back consulting with a PB house to re-invigorate their SF line. It took him seven months simply to determine who they had under contract for what, another five months to dot Is, cross Ts, and get new contracts in place, and they still lost valuable properties because they had forgotten they had the rights to a book, but the author's or author's agents had not, and sent a formal request that the rights revert as soon as the contract was up.

You would think a publisher could at least keep track of what books they had under contract and when the rights would lapse, but you would have been wrong.

In many cases, it is sheer incompetence.
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