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Originally Posted by gweeks
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.
Greg
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Quite possibly as I said, but there seems to be thousands of authors both alive and dead whose books are being revived, or rejuvenated as ebooks by either their original publisher(s) or a small imprint like Hard Case Crime.
Not a month goes by that I don't find out of print paper books that were written by authors I admire, and I have been actively looking for, or by someone I have never heard of but my type of book, published as ebooks. I have been reading a couple of hundred books a year for more than 50 years and have at least 700 authors I really like. Since I started reading ebooks in 2010 I have wished that many of these authors books would come out in
ebook form and it seems that my wishes are coming true.
On the topic under discussion, it makes less and less sense for publishers to be dog in the manger with an author.
And thinking about it as I type, Peter Bowen and many others probably never sold ebook rights as they weren't a viable market in 2006. So I am probably spouting nonsense
Helen