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Originally Posted by teh603
Maybe they want to sit on the rights forever, and never actually make an ebook? When a company does it with a patent, its called patent trolling.
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IF (and it's a big "if", because none of us know) HC's contract with the author grants them the blanket rights to the book in "all" formats, their claim would seem to be legitimate. An author can't grant e-book rights to company B if she's already signed them away to company A.
Given that none of us know what the contract actually says, to go further than this is pointless speculation.