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Old 07-22-2014, 08:45 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe View Post
His original publishers were Minotaur Press or St. martins Press, part of Macmillan Publishers who are considered Big Five I believe.

I am thinking they must have authorized or contracted for the books to be published but of course perhaps he had a special contract. But there are, IMO, tons of midlist and/or obscure authors who are being republished in ebook form. And many are very popular although not best sellers. I assume, perhaps wrongly, that the majority are probably quite happy with the situation.
I think it's more likely he got the rights back or never sold the ebook rights and found a different publisher to do the ebooks. Macmillan has their own ebook offerings and wouldn't likely sub the ebook rights out.

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