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Originally Posted by cromag
Honestly, its presence at several reputable online bookstores is probably the best assurance you can get.
There's no way I know of to check if an author had signed away rights to a publisher, etc. But if the book appears at Amazon, Kobo, etc., it will be seen by many people, at least some of whom are bound to mention it to the author. And reputable vendors, like Amazon, etc., respond to "take down" notices.
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That is sort-of my line of thought too. Unfortutately, I'm still a bit jittery about it. If it was a broadly recognized book, like "The Mythical Man Month", what you're saying would be obvious since someone would mention it to the author. On the otherhand, much more recent titles that aren't as popular as "The Mythical Man Month" aren't available as ebooks. One example is, "When Computers were Human" from 2005. So I'm left thinking that the answer is somewhat more complex.