[kennyc]

Well two things, she was likely 'locked in' to a bad contract -- this is reprehensible and taking advantage of artists just as the music business has and most other commercial art firms have done in the past

and two the old publishers clearly will not "die in peace" as you put it. They are doing everything they can to stop the advance of 'new publishing' as is evidenced by the collusion in the agency model and refusing to allow ebooks in public libraries among other things.