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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
That is all good news, but if even the most informed and appreciative of the
value of ebook sales authors are making deals that result in no ebook sales,
we have a long way to go.
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Yes, we have a loooonnnggg way to go.
But it isn't necessarily so that authors are *now* making deals that result in no ebook sales (though quite a few are doing exactly that) just that many/most are bound by their *past* deals with publishers who neither exercise the ebook rights they control nor give them up.
I'm thinking that if the author's guild would take a few seconds to worry about something other than piracy and Amazon, they might discover a worthier cause to lobby for: a use-it-or-lose-it campaign, even if (as it most likely) all they can do is browbeat the publishers.
At least, for a change, they would be browbeating a worthy target for a worthy issue.