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Originally Posted by darryl
It seems to be mostly common ground in this discussion that editors are a good thing. But the large publishers do not have a monopoly on editors nor on all of the good editors. Authors need not sign-away their rights almost in perpetuity to have their work edited.
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Generally, authors need not sign-away their right at all, certainly not in perpetuity. A lot of the issue with the ebook rights to the older books is a combination of ambiguity in the contracts and the lack of return for converting the older books, most of whom don't exist in electronic form and lack of interest in actually doing so.