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Old 12-22-2014, 06:33 PM   #46
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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
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.
If only this were true. And no, not in perpetuity but so long it may as well be. The following link is from fjtorres earlier post in this thread. The article it references is well worth a read.

http://kriswrites.com/2014/12/17/business-musings-what-traditional-publishing-learned-in-2014/#sthash.ZmoWXmU4.dpbs[/URL]
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