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Originally Posted by elcreative
And here's another way to be sneaky... if the book is in print then the publisher retains contractual rights but in print doesn't necessarily mean for sale... it is not unknown for a publisher to retain ten, twenty copies in stock but not to supply orders for it just to retain contractual rights by being able to prove the book is still in print...  |
For ebooks I can't see how they would ever go out of print except if the publisher voluntarily removed it from sale. If that meant they would no longer have any claim over their 80% markup I can't really see them doing that.