Thread: Gollanz to launch world's biggest SFF library
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Old 07-23-2011, 06:02 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
It's not as if they have any choice in the matter; they have to obey the law.
Well, they need to respect their contracts. As far as I know, there aren't any international laws or treaties forbidding authors and publishers from entering into contracts where a single publisher has global digital publishing rights. For example, it's my impression that Baen has global digital publishing rights for all of its ebooks. I just hope that if Gollanz is going to digitize the backlist of various SFF authors from the 1940s to today, they contract for global digital publishing rights so that we don't end up with them being available for, let's say, the UK, Canada, and South Africa, but not available anywhere else.
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