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Old 04-18-2012, 02:23 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by crossi View Post
Actually once the creator/author sells the rights they have little or no say about anything icluding price, book cover, front page blurb, when it is printed, or anything else.
They can't even determine if the book remains on sale.
It is not unheard for a publisher to just bury a box of the book in a warehouse and neither promote it nor release the rights.

All a typical writer gets to choose is whether to accept the traditionalist 12% royalty or not. Of late, many are choosing "not".

Kobo is looking to help those authors.
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