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Originally Posted by kennyc
Well, except for even that to be feasible the author must have retained or recovered the rights to those backlist books.
Many are in a situation where the rip-off publisher will not release the book, reprint them nor publish them as ebooks.
And make no bones about it, given the current state of publishing virtually all of the BPH's are playing the Rip-Off Publisher role. And they have been for a while, no different than the music publishers were before they were exposed and done-in by the home recording and digital revolution.
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Actually, most of the older contracts have reversion clauses and they're working for the authors. Newer ones are having issues, especially since "out of print" has no real meaning with ebooks.
As for "rip-off publishers," BPH contracts are getting worse, but they're nothing like the one in Frederick that I'm not mentioning by name.