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Originally Posted by Catlady
Wait. The press release said Amazon Publishing is going to publish Avalon's backlist. So Amazon's going to digitize books that would otherwise be unavailable or available only in paper. As I read it, Amazon is not keeping books away from people, they're allowing more people access to the books.
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Correct.
What I heard was that in recent times AVALON titles were only available in limited numbers, to libraries mostly, and generating essentialy zero income beyond the advance to at least some (most?) of their authors. (I heard it from one of the authors, who was ecstatic.)
That is one reason why the question of whether Amazon will change the royalty terms or hold authors to the existing contract terms. As ebooks, those titles are now likely to generate significant revenue even under the archaic legacy contracts. Which is why the deal is a 4-way win; more books getting to more readers than before is hardly a step backwards.