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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Depends on the terms of the contract.
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The legalese is here:
https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishi...=APILE934L348N
I read it, but it doesn't answer for me the question of what happens to the eBook when the author disappears. There's language that seems to imply Amazon can choose to either terminate, or to hold on to the royalties until a plausible successor or assign shows up. So do they ever terminate? If so, copyrighted eBooks are vanishing as we discuss this.
Given the large number of indie eBook authors who agree to the standard Amazon legal terms, I can't believe a week goes by without one, or several, dying intestate, or with literary matters unmentioned in their will. There must be a real life answer to the question of whether the book vanishes when the eBook distributor no longer knows to whom to pay a small royalty.