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Originally Posted by crich70
Well I'd think that Mark Coker would have pulled it offline if there were something wrong. Certainly he wouldn't want to be sued by her pbook publisher I wouldn't think. Is there something wrong with it? I don't know. Certainly there have been illegal copies of books put up by others in the past (1984 is an example that comes to mind). I honestly don't remember the 2011 discussion so I'll have to take your word for that. I think it is telling though that you say we had a discussion in 2011 about the book and here it is the end of 2014 and it hasn't been yanked. Certainly someone should have mentioned it to the author or her publisher by now and had it pulled if there were something wrong.  Maybe she didn't want a wide distribution in ebook format? The woman was 97 when she died so she could have had someone do some ebook promotion and then had ill health interfere after that. |
Well, who knows what her estate does and doesn't know? If it's anything like other, older writers--from what I've seen--the rights and e-rights are a bloody mess. I would almost bet money that her estate hasn't even realized that the book is up there, legally or otherwise. And I'm sorry, I'll say it again: it's peculiar. And if it's a legal copy, WHY isn't it on Amazon, as KGSTudios asserts "worldwide rights?" What legit publisher in their right MIND would only put a bestselling trilogy up on SW, and NOT on Amazon? It's daft. All you have to have, to publish on Amazon, is a rights-reversion letter or a rights letter or even simply a rights EMAIL. This I know factually, as we deal with scads of rights-reverted works and backlist books. AND books from deceased authors.
That there was a version from KGStudios up there, on Amazon--and there appears
not to be,
now, is more telling than anything else we've discussed herein, IMHO. Given how low the bar for entry really is....
Just sayin'.
Hitch