And, of course, Amazon is sooo relevant to this discussion of a fight between two of their competitors...
A contract that apparently served the author for 40 years an example of short-term thinking? Oh-kayyy...
I'm just not sure I quite buy that those clauses existed in the original 1971 contract. Don't contracts get updated and terms added/adjusted over time?
And I seem to remember that some of the BPHs in recent times were bypassing agents to get their authors to sign away digital rights in "routine" contract mods.
This one bears watching; something smells of month-old dead fish...