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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Kindle Direct Publishing question:
What happens today when the average eBook author dies, with or without a will?
I suppose Amazon doesn't know until a royalty payment -- say, a direct deposit of US$15 -- comes back as account closed. Does the book then vanish? If not, why not?
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Probably because the author has a contract with a publisher for printing that book. The contract does not AFAIK say you must stop publishing the day I die. The publisher may even own the rights to publish for a long time. The royalty checks would go to the estate.
Possibly the publisher only loses their rights to publish in some cases when they stop publishing the book or a certain time after.
I say possibly and probably because I don't know for sure, but I have never seen anything that suggests an authors works cannot be printed the minute they die. Would have to be a strange contract IMO.
Helen