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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Won't hurt my feelings any if one or two publishers go belly up and get sold for scraps.
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Those scraps (backlist IP rights) are worth a lot of money and will keep the last vestiges of the big publishers around until they run out. So 100 years is a good estimate of when we'll see the last of the randy Penguin.
(Note that MGM is still alive and twitching on the strength of the Bond flicks. The BPHs can do the same, firing all production staff and living off copyright licenses.)