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Originally Posted by fjtorres
No gunpoint. But it was hardly a free choice when the "industry standard contract" was the only way to be respectably published.
Not totally unlike the Hollywood casting couch; submit or go home.
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Part of my point in the last paragraph, which was poorly stated I admit, was that authors who have signed contracts that say they can never publish elsewhere, or not for the next x books are generally signed by an author who thinks it is a good deal. A bit of a gamble that this is the best deal that they will get.
My understanding, which could be wrong, is that the standard boiler plate contract is for 1-3 books. An author who signs up for a longer term has no choice now, but they probably did when they signed this type of exclusivity contract.
Helen