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Originally Posted by pwalker8
It totally depends on the contract, which varies quite a bit, even when the same publisher is involved.
Here is URL for some of the things that the authors guild thinks you should negotiate as an author, including making sure that rights revert back to you in various situation.
https://www.authorsguild.org/member-...book-contract/
It is a contract and for the most part, if the publisher wants to publish your book, they are willing to negotiate. The idea that book contracts are a take it or leave it is about on par with the idea that the first offer on a car at a car dealer is a take it or leave it. Everyone should take a course in contract law, just to know what is what. I took my first one back in high school, way back when.
Do you know of any current books, not backlisted, where the publisher doesn't have an electronic copy of the book? This conversation started discussing backlisted books. Many of the "rights in purgatory" stories that I've read from various authors can be traced to the original publisher/imprint going belly up. I've seen stories where the contract passes hands three or four times. |
Do you have or have you ever had a contract with a big 5 publisher?
Are you saying that there should only be one print run ever?
How would I or you know what books have electronic copies?
That is an impossible question.
As to the authorsguild, oh never mind.