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Old 11-20-2010, 05:13 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by thinkpadx View Post
That must be very frustrating as an author, and I guess a lot of other authors are in the same situation. One thing that strikes me though, wouldn't it be easier as an author to just keep the e-book rights and offer them directly to Amazon and all the other big distribution channels or is this prevented when signing an agreement with publishers for the print edition.

Or to put in your contract - if you take the electronic rights and don't publish within a week or a month or whatever of the print book - in all the markets I gave you rights to - then the rights revert to me. Not hard to work that one out.
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